Upgrading to this...

[neilm86]

Hi guys,

I'm thinking of upgrading my PC and was looking at these components:

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6970 2048MB GDDR5 x 2 - £563.98

Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - £145.99

Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler - £25.99

Krypton Z68 590i Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz Overclocked Bundle - £417.17
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz Sandybridge CPU
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68AP-UD3P Intel Z68 (default choice)
RAM: Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Cooler: Corsair A50 CPU Cooler
Artic Silver 5 Thermal Compound

Total: £1,153.13

I have an antec 1200 case
Corsair 750W PSU
Samsung 1tb HDD
5.1 soundcard

I would love to know what you guys think regarding spec, price, longevity etc etc

All feedback welcome

Thanks

Neil

 

[Lemin]

Bundle comes with cpu cooler.
PSU is on the limit for xfire.
Do you have DVD-RW ?

Rest looks good.

 

[numatic.nathan]

Amazing spec, although bulldozer is out this month and possibly the new AMD GPUs so it may be worth holding on till the end of the month

 

[fowler002]

buy the mb/cpu/ram seperately rather than as a bundle, its easy enough to oc the cpu yourself.

cpu http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-360-IN

mb http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-054-AK&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

ram http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-094-KS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

better motherboard and has support for xfire wheres the one in the bundle says xfire support from what I understand its x16/x4, also support for pci-e 3.0 in the future without having to upgrade the motherboard(pop in an ivy bridge cpu and pci-e 3.0 graphics card, sandy bridge doesn't have the pci-e 3.0 controller so have to upgrade to ivy bridge for the pci-e 3.0 support).

 

[Gib_Gib]

I would question is it worth £160 more for 2 6970s over 2 6950s
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/298?vs=299
Personally I would say no

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-147-OK
vs
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-245-AS

 

[Reaper 392]

PSU is on the limit for xfire.

PSU is plenty good enough for xfire, especially since its a corsair:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/298
it'll only pull 601W while using furmark, so 750W is a good recommendation

*edit*
you have to be very careful your getting what you want with gigabyte motherboards. i cant actually find a Gigabyte Z68AP-UD3P, but i can find a GA-Z68AP-D3 which does NOT support crossfire/SLI at proper speeds. crossfire/SLI will technically work, but your graphics cards will be bottlenecked by the motherboard

this motherboard is the best gigabyte one to go for: Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3