Upgrade Advice Needed

George Hincapie · 5 Mar 2013 at 13:58

I posted a few months ago about upgrading my motherboard, CPU & RAM. One of you suggested this:

1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £159.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £81.98
1 x BeQuiet Shadow Rock Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM2+/AM3) £32.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £29.99
Total : £304.91 (includes shipping : FREE).

Can this be bettered for the money? I don't want to spend much more than this if possible.

honosuseri · 5 Mar 2013 at 14:38

Those are old prices fella. The OEM i5K isn't on offer anymore

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £187.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £83.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £44.99
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 120 REV A CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £24.98
Total : £341.95 (includes shipping : FREE).

Doomedspeed · 5 Mar 2013 at 14:39

Prices have changed fair bit since then. Annoyingly in the UP direction.

I would still go with that CPU and Motherboard.

Ram: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-012-AD

Cooler: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-036-CM

The cooler depends on your case accepting 163mm+ CPU coolers though..

Gav_881 · 5 Mar 2013 at 14:55

just remember that as well as not having a stock cooler the OEM cpu has a shorter warrenty

George Hincapie · 5 Mar 2013 at 15:37

Thank you guys.

George Hincapie · 12 Mar 2013 at 15:12

Thanks to you all for the advice. Costs seem to have gone up quite a bit since the initial quote, but in the end I settled for this:

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £156.66 1 £156.66
Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99 1 £74.99
Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CML8GX3M2B1600C11) £41.66 1 £41.66
BeQuiet Dark Rock 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £38.32 1 £38.32
Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound (8g) £7.49 1 £7.49
Akasa AK-TC TIM Clean CPU & Heatsink Cleaner £4.99 1 £4.99

Ordered 5 mins ago from OCUK, so hopefully will arrive in the next few days. It's been years since I have done any O/C - what will I need to do with respect to multiplier changes to get this from stock to say 4 GHz/4.3 GHz?

Doomedspeed · 12 Mar 2013 at 15:53

Looks good, that dark rock is a good cooler..

OC wise.

Turn off the turbo, speedstep and c states.

Enter value into multiplier. (42 will give you 4.2Ghz)

Then change the vcore from auto. To a fixed value.. 1.2 should be fine for 4.2..

Boot in windows, open cpu-z to show speed and vcore.. Run prime to test stability.

George Hincapie · 12 Mar 2013 at 16:05

Doomedspeed said:
Looks good, that dark rock is a good cooler..

OC wise.

Turn off the turbo, speedstep and c states.

Enter value into multiplier. (42 will give you 4.2Ghz)

Then change the vcore from auto. To a fixed value.. 1.2 should be fine for 4.2..

Boot in windows, open cpu-z to show speed and vcore.. Run prime to test stability.

Thank you so much