Upgrade spec Check

[MrRoper]

Hi Guys,

So I wil lbe upgrading my machine soon and have choosen the parts I need, Does anyone see any problems?

BTW, I have choosen that particular board as I need to be able to support 2xGTX570`s and an ATI card in the same machine.

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £241.99
(£201.66) £241.99
(£201.66)
Asrock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard Asrock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £229.99
(£191.66) £229.99
(£191.66)
Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9B) Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9B) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3) Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)

 

[King Damager]

570's and an ATI card... how are you getting the drivers to work in that.... Also you could down spec to Kingston Grey, and what are you using your PC for as you might be able to get away with a i5 2500k

kd

 

[MrRoper]

Hi Mate,

Drivers work fine side by side in Windows 7, I just disable the ATI card unless I want to use it. ( I have an 3 screen simrig I use it for)

Thanks for memory advice, im so used to having to have high spec`d mem for an overclock but of course we dont change the FSB with the SB chips! Doh!

Im only gaming, but I want the highest OC I can get and thought that the 2600k was a better overclocker? is this the case?

 

[mp260767]

mobo wise should be able to do that with the extreme 4 gen 3 unless i've missed something obvious.

as king mentioned have a look at the likes of the grey memory or the corsair 1600mhz stuff on special offer at the mo.

2500K will be fine for games and should clock well, only real requirement for the 2600K is video editing etc.

have a look at the Antec Kúhler H2O 620 cpu cooler.

 

[MrRoper]

mobo wise should be able to do that with the extreme 4 gen 3 unless i've missed something obvious.

as king mentioned have a look at the likes of the grey memory or the corsair 1600mhz stuff on special offer at the mo.

2500K will be fine for games and should clock well, only real requirement for the 2600K is video editing etc.

have a look at the Antec Kúhler H2O 620 cpu cooler.

My main concern with the Extreme 4 is what mode the ATI cards PCI slot would run in, as it suggests that it would run at x4? the two SLI slots would run at 8x & 8x?
Can anyone shed any light on this?

 

[mp260767]

had a look about and what you thought was right , off the asrock website the pcie5 slot runs at x4 on both the 4 & the 7, but the extreme 7 has PCIE6 to run at x8 .

the extreme7 supports tri sli, and the extreme 4 doesnt seem to according to the specs:

extreme4 :
2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (PCIE2/PCIE4: single at x16 or dual at x8/x8 mode) (PCI Express 3.0 with Intel® Ivy Bridge CPU, PCI Express 2.0 with Intel® Sandy Bridge CPU)
- 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot (PCIE5: x4 mode)
- 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots
- 2 x PCI slots
- Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™ , 3-Way CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™
- Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLI™ and SLI™

extreme7:
5 x PCI Express x16 slots (single at PCIE 3.0* x16 (PCIE2) mode, dual at PCIE 2.0 x16 (PCIE1) / PCIE 2.0 x16 (PCIE4) mode, or tripple at PCIE 2.0 x16 (PCIE1) / PCIE 2.0 x8 (PCIE4) / PCIE 2.0 x8 (PCIE6) mode; PCIE5: PCIE 2.0 x4 mode)
- 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slot
- 1 x PCI slot
- Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™ , 3-Way CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™
- Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLI™ , 3-Way SLI™ and SLI™