specing me a pc,

[matkeys]

hi guys, well its been a long time since i was overclocking and had my last rig but been living with a laptop since as had no room, but i wanna start a mid gaming, but fast internet multi tasking pc. and it needs to be quick as ill be getting bt infintiy, and we all hate a slow pc!

soooo.... as im doing this in stages over the next couple of weeks. ive think ive settled on this mother board

http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1156/P7P55_LX/

or looking around again,

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3503#ov

can get this for £60 new, i know this is 2010 hardware, but like i say i dont need a benchmark monster. just something thats quick and will keep up with most if not all games for the next few years


any way is this motherboard a good choice

i want to go the full 16gb (unless theres no need and say go for 8gb or 12?) specd on this baord on the highest mhz, which is 1600mhz, which also states oc support to 2200, so few things

can some one spec me a cheapish ram that can be oc'd and either a i5 or i7. as theres a few about.
and just sugestions on cross fire quad core gpus, as it states the spec can support quad x-fire.

ill most likley start air cooled, eventually run watercooled and oc the cpu/ram/gpu. yes ok so i said i dont want a monster rig but hey, i wont be able to help my self !!!

cheers

 

[Reaper 392]

it would be far better to go for a cheap socket 1155 sandybridge system than socket 1156. even if it means going for the i3 2100

also, if your just doing light gaming and web browsing then 4GB will be more than enough. most games cant even fill up 4GB, but because RAM is so cheap sometimes 8GB is recommended. if it would be sensible to go for 16GB RAM then you will almost certainly know about it.

as for multiple graphics cards, using more than two isnt really recommended. the performance increase of going from one card to two may be ~95%, but adding a third card will be a far smaller performance increase.

something along these lines would be better:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £99.98
1 x MSI H67MA-E35 Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - (Sandybridge) **B3 REVISION** £64.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £19.99
Total : £196.37 (includes shipping : £9.50).

i cant really spec much else until you give me a budget to work with, and tell me exactly what you need (just the case and whats inside it, or do you need peripherals and an OS too?)

 

[matkeys]

only thing i see the limiting factor is maybe in a few months or when ever i can be bothered to, is go for the top end i7, i suppose 16gb is a lot at todays pace, and i know from before 4gb was enough to run mw2/bf2 but they were slow mhz. for what its worth would i not be best to buy the 1156 and go with a 15 for now with 4, or 8gb which ever i come across first.

i take you advise but wondered as there is little price diffence in the mb or cpu then surely id be just wiser to buy the 1156 over the 1155?.

correct me if my thinking is wrong,.

cheers

edit: sorry saw this supports i7, yer i guess with the cross fire. double the wattage for minimal increase over buying one powerfull card that proberly runs cooler and sucks less wattage.

so whats the main diffrence over the 1155 and 1156?

 

[matkeys]

lol shows you how outta touch i am, just googled the sockets, the 1155 is Q1 2011 release! so which that mb will i still be able to oc the cpu?

 

[Reaper 392]

lol shows you how outta touch i am, just googled the sockets, the 1155 is Q1 2011 release! so which that mb will i still be able to oc the cpu?

with that motherboard you wont be able to overclock. however not knowing your budget i just went for something that was resonably cheap. if you tell someone your budget for your entire upgrade and what your looking to upgrade i'm sure someone will be able to help you
(i would help you myself but i'm about to head to bed and with the F1 qualifying on tomorrow i wont be on OcUK for a while)

 

[matkeys]

well, most stuff will come form ebay used or new. mother board im finding around £70 with really good specs. even cpu and gpus will be s/h if i can but the psu will be a decent corsair one so in know thats going to cost a good £100/£130

budget well what ever i can afford from week to week, but as im doing it over the next 3/4 weeks with around 100/130 to spend i suppose we can call it 600. but obvously if i bougght every thing new that would be a hard budget stand by.

cpu and gpu can come later, even as the last buy, ill go for some thing like a 500gb caviar blue hdd, with a 60gb ssd os drive and main programs to keep things running as fast as possible. and maybe even another sdd down the road. i was going to buy a lga 775 board and i could have bought a whole pc made for £250 but tbo thats old stuff and i want to keep up to a certain extent

heres a feww 1155 mb's i found

http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/content.php?S_ID=534

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8H61M_LE/#specifications

 

[matkeys]

well the asus looks good. and is 50 quid. ebay seller is a power sell withh 100% feedback. would this be a good base to set up on?

 

[matkeys]

any fresh ideas? or will that asus one be a good board? specially when its only £45.

paid more for a p5nt last year and that was a few year old hardware.

not sure if i trust bio star!

any way, if i go for the asus board, i been looking at the i5 cpus for now but im unsure which one is the right one, i understand the k being higher level cpus but if posible some one tell me the compatible i5 cpu for this board

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8H61M_LE/#specifications

 

[Reaper 392]

for £600 you can get a pretty decent PC:

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Deus Ex PC Game **PRE-ORDER ONLY PRICE** £119.99
1 x MSI P67A-GD53 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £107.99
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £99.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £77.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £55.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £40.79
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500413AS) £30.98
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT25664BA160A) £26.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £600.61 (includes shipping : £19.10).

graphics card benchmark: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/290

motherboard and power supply is all ready for crossfire should you want to add a second graphics card in crossfire later. benchmark of 1 graphics card vs two graphics cards in crossfire:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/290

you cant overclock this processor, but if you want to upgrade to an i5 2500k later then you can overclock that

also has a top end 64GB SSD

 

[matkeys]

that actually looks good, id op for the i5 now rather then the 13, id like to build this now, and then watercool later, just because i want to lol. but yer thats cool cheers