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denjing51m

denjing51m

denjing51m

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Hello All

sorry i know there has been a lot of these and everyone has been very good at helping people out so im hoping you can do the same.

currently housing

Antec Dark Fleet DF 85,
Gigabyte GA P35-DS3R (775)*
4gb Crucial Ballistix DDR2*
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750*
OCZ Vertex 3 120gb SSD
Gigabyte Geforce GTX460 OC 1024MB GDDR5
OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w
Win7 64bit
Razor Lycosa
Razor Copperhead
Samsung SyncMaster P2450H TFT LCD 24" HDMI Monitor

the key area i need upgrading is Mobo CPU and Memory

now from watching these posts everyone craves about this and this with and i5 2500k

2 questions

Why not i7? and also that SA, would that fit in my case?

other recommendations very welcome if you think i have done something wrong........:)
 
sorry that would help wouldnt it,

Gaming mainly and at the moment its MW2 Blackops SC2 but will be for Battlefield 3 MW3 and any other decent games coming out.
 
there :)

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £165.59
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £144.98
Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £69.98
Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3) £50.99
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
Total : £442.94

What I would get right now if I did an upgrade.

- CPU is great.
- Mobo is great.
- cooler is great, and silent.
- ram is great and low profile.

Everything's great. Can go i7 if you do a lot of transcoding / encoding that sort of stuff.

SLI 460 OC would be a nice stop gap before a later graphical upgrade, for MW3 and what not, a 570 / 580, and maybe a better PSU, modular Lepa 750W, XFX, Corsair... Could find that 460 SLI does the job anyway, but not sure the PSU will cope.
 
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As mentioned above the i7 2600K offers hyperthreading. No games to my knowledge as of yet can make use of it. It's more useful when rendering or doing very CPU intensive tasks with programmes that can use it. For gaming, the i5 2500K performs on par with it, sometimes better.

Correct, the Thermalright Silver Arrow is one of the best air coolers on the market at the moment along with the Noctua D14 and BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro. Be warned, however, it's not exactly small and will block DIMM slots if low profile RAM isn't used.

Cooler Dimension: Length 147mm x Width 123mm x Height 160mm.

The Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 will be big enough to house it. In this review they tested the case with the Thermal Right Venemous X which also has a height of 160mm.

As for the motherboard, plenty of people have been going for the AsRock Z68 board above but unless you need the features of Z68 (such as lucid virtu and ssd caching) you could go for P67 board instead and save some money.

The MSI P67A-GD53 is a steal at £104.99 and will do SLI too. :)
 
Olivier, many thanks i will probably go for those items,

and thank you Shadow Boxer i hadnt come across that review when i brought the case, cleared up my question about the memory been covered by the SA

slightly different side of this, how easy is it to overclock that setup?
 
Sorry to re-open this up

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM
(£129.99) £155.99

Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
(£116.65) £139.98

Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9)
(£59.99) £71.99

Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3)
(£39.99) £47.99

Sub Total : £346.62
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £71.22
Total : £427.34


Does this sound right? as most of it is on special offer i would be a fool to turn this down
 
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