Upgrading Q6600 to Sandybridge

Brumboy

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I'm looking at upgading to the new sandybridge i5 processor.

Here is what I'm looking to purchase:

Motherboard - Asus P8P67 LE Intel P67 Express Socket 1155- £112
Processor - Intel CPU Core i5 2500K 3.3Ghz Unlocked Sandy Bridge - £182
Memory - Corsair Memory XMS3 4GB DDR3 1600 MHz- £40

Total - £334

Now I was wondering if I need to buy a cooler for this new CPU?

Also, right now I do have a pirate version of Windows 7 Ultimate, if I were to pay someone to install the new CPU + mobo + RAM, would I need to buy the full version of Windows 7 or is there a way to use the version I have now? (I still have the original installation files etc)

Thanks in advance.
 
OcUK do not permit piracy and discussion about the topic on our forums.

Buy a copy of Windows 7 retail. You wouldn't run your car on red diesal would you?

So don't run your PC on a cracked illegal OS.

Either way your spec is quite good :)

You had a look at our pre overclocked bundle range?
 
Unless you have anything in the 1x PCI-E slot(s) and then the second GPU lane will apparently run at 1x.
 
Is that motherboard better than the one I've looked at already? The model is the same but the one I've looked at Asus P8P67 LE and this one is just Asus P8P67.

Also sorry I did not know that NathWraith.

If my computer did have a genuine Windows 7 OS, and I upgraded my CPU and motherboard would I need to do a fresh install of Windows 7 or is there a way around it?
 
Rossuk89 said:
Is that motherboard better than the one I've looked at already? The model is the same but the one I've looked at Asus P8P67 LE and this one is just Asus P8P67.
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Spec wise the Asus P8P67 is superior to the Asus P8P67 LE.

The Asus P8P67 has two more SATA 3.0 port and two more USB 3.0 port, plus PCI-E x 16 Single x16 or x8x8x4 instead of PCI-E x 16 Single x16 or x16x4. It's well worth the £6 extra.
 
Rossuk89 said:
Is that motherboard better than the one I've looked at already? The model is the same but the one I've looked at Asus P8P67 LE and this one is just Asus P8P67.

Also sorry I did not know that NathWraith.

If my computer did have a genuine Windows 7 OS, and I upgraded my CPU and motherboard would I need to do a fresh install of Windows 7 or is there a way around it?
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Fresh install is always the best way. Especially with a new chipset which has various new features (USB 3.0, SATA 6GB/s).

I re-install my OS anytime I make a major change to my system. You can get away with it with new GFX cards but something as major as a while new mobo, CPU, RAM I would strongly recommend it.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Spec wise the Asus P8P67 is superior to the Asus P8P67 LE.

The Asus P8P67 has two more SATA 3.0 port and two more USB 3.0 port, plus PCI-E x 16 Single x16 or x8x8x4 instead of PCI-E x 16 Single x16 or x16x4. It's well worth the £6 extra.
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Marine, if you take a look at the Asus page for that board it actually only supports x16/x4, the product info on Overclockers is wrong. Tried to tell Gibbo about this in another topic but it's not been changed yet.
 
Redmint said:
Marine, if you take a look at the Asus page for that board it actually only supports x16/x4, the product info on Overclockers is wrong. Tried to tell Gibbo about this in another topic but it's not been changed yet.
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Right, but still, I'd gladly pay £6 extra for two more SATA 3.0 and USB 3.0 ports.
 
It has an auto tuning feature but it usually achieves 4.1-4.3ghz depending on cooling.
 
What do you use the PC for?

If its for gaming, then all you need to do it whack a new graphics card in there - Q6600s can cope quite fine with most games atm, its nearly always the graphics card limiting a system in new games.
 
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