Upgrade Time

Loxa · 17 Oct 2012 at 16:45

Hey,

im wanting to upgrade my Motherboard/CPU/Ram(8gig) and just wondering if you guys can give me a few tips or suggestions. Im looking to get a Ivybridge I5 3570k so Motherboard wise it would be a h77/z77(sli & xfire) would also be nice), if possible im looking for a board which is black or red&black to stay with my colour scheme. And same for the Ram (I have a Coolmaster hyper 12 so im guessing low profile ram would be easyer to fit)

If possible id like to keep this as close to £300 as possible.

Loxa · 17 Oct 2012 at 16:52

Fire_fly said:
What CPU / motherboard are you using at the moment and what will you be using the computer for?

The motherboard i have atm is from a Packard Bell Ixtreme computer purcahsed in 2006 (Phoenix) i think it was, my cpu is a Q6600.

I use my PC for gaming everyday.

Loxa · 17 Oct 2012 at 17:22

South890 said:
are you planning to overclock?

Yeah in the future, thats why im going for the K series. Main reason i ask for sli & xfire is because atm i have a AMD card but i may change to 2 Nvidia

Loxa · 17 Oct 2012 at 17:26

South890 said:
ok sounds good. whats your current card btw? Sometimes, depening on your card, its not worth adding a second later.

I have a Asus 6850 V2

Loxa · 17 Oct 2012 at 20:10

Thanks for all the replys people, some nice choices to choose from

Oh one more question, since the motherboard has 4 ram slots does that mean it would be possible to use high profile ram? Since it could be located away from the cpu heatsink fan