Will this give me a nice boost

Phil2008 · 23 Jul 2011 at 17:28

Going by whats in my sig... forgot to add a decent cooler as the i5 will deffo be overclocked

Prob wont be able to upgrade yet, but its nice to dream..hehe

Surveyor · 23 Jul 2011 at 19:49

You realise that there's only a limited amount you can do to overclock the i5-2400 on a H67 motherboard?

For real overclocking with Sandybridge you want a 2500K processor, with an unlocked mulitiplier, and a P67 or Z68 motherboard.

The 2500K will usually overclock to 4.5GHz without too much difficulty.

Randomface74 · 23 Jul 2011 at 19:50

2500K + P67

Phil2008 · 23 Jul 2011 at 21:23

Surveyor said:
You realise that there's only a limited amount you can do to overclock the i5-2400 on a H67 motherboard?

Ah thanks for that and I have noticed that a lot of boards only have 2 mem slots now.

Surveyor · 23 Jul 2011 at 21:26

Phil2008 said:
Ah thanks for that and I have noticed that a lot of boards only have 2 mem slots now.

A lot of mATX boards have 2 memory slots due to their small size.

Full size ATX boards will have 4.

Your case will fit a full ATX board.

Jordan97 · 23 Jul 2011 at 21:29

How about something like this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £161.99
1 x Asus P8P67 LE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** *LOWEST UK PRICE* £68.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £49.99
Total : £292.36 (includes shipping : £9.50).

Is much better than your original spec, and will allow you to overclock properly. With a non 'K' chip, overclocking is very limited and you probably will not notice a big performance increase.

If you use the PC for gaming you could go for 4GB of RAM because all games still use 32-bit architecture and will for a long time.

Phil2008 · 23 Jul 2011 at 21:42

Surveyor said:
A lot of mATX boards have 2 memory slots due to their small size.

Oh yeah of course

Jordan97 said:
How about something like this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £161.99
1 x Asus P8P67 LE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** *LOWEST UK PRICE* £68.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £49.99
Total : £292.36 (includes shipping : £9.50).

Is much better than your original spec, and will allow you to overclock properly. With a non 'K' chip, overclocking is very limited and you probably will not notice a big performance increase.

If you use the PC for gaming you could go for 4GB of RAM because all games still use 32-bit architecture and will for a long time.

That looks much better thanks, and yeah if I can get the funds to upgrade, I might just get 4gb as Ive had 8gb on current pc for about 3yrs and I very rarely go over 4gb

Phil2008 · 21 Aug 2011 at 14:07

Hi guys What do you think about this board and memory for the i5-2500k, as I might be able to upgrade now? Also what cpu cooler would you recommend as I would like to get to 4ghz and is the memory fast enough to oc cpu, as I dont really want to oc the mem if I dont have to?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-447-AS
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-290-CS

Jordan97 · 21 Aug 2011 at 14:20

Go with this Z68 board:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-458-AS

This memory:

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

And this cooler will get you overclocks of around 4.5-4.7GHz:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-GD&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

olivier renault · 21 Aug 2011 at 15:13

+1. I second the motion.

The Mem doesn't get OC, even if you push the CPU to 5GHz. So any decent stick will be good to go. The HyperX is great. XMS3 as well.

Phil2008 · 21 Aug 2011 at 15:38

olivier renault said:
+1. I second the motion.

The Mem doesn't get OC, even if you push the CPU to 5GHz. So any decent stick will be good to go. The HyperX is great. XMS3 as well.

Thats great stuff, as with current system the mem is being oc by 22mhz so cpu will run at 3.8

Jordan97 · 21 Aug 2011 at 15:42

Remember changing the BCLK on a SB chip is minimal. The range is probably about 99-105. All overclocking is done by the multiplier and so, like olivier said, any memory is fine.

I believe Surveryor has a link to an article which explains how memory speed and timings make very little difference with Sandy Bridge.

Phil2008 · 21 Aug 2011 at 16:07

what the hell is BCLK, as Im out of the loop of the new tech that boards use nowadays, as it says the i5 dosent like BCLK, so can you disable it?

stulid · 21 Aug 2011 at 16:10

Phil2008 said:
what the hell is BCLK, as Im out of the loop of the new tech that boards use nowadays, as it says the i5 dosent like BCLK, so can you disable it?

Its the Base Clock (what use to be the FSB) its default is 100mhz with Sandybridge.

so for a 3.3ghz i5 2500K, its 100 X 33 (multiplier) = 3300mhz.

To get 4ghz just change the multiplier to 40 without touching the BCLK.

Phil2008 · 23 Aug 2011 at 15:45

Anyone know if this board will give the same performance, as the slots are better laid out for my needs?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-447-AS&tool=5

olivier renault · 23 Aug 2011 at 16:02

It's OK, but I would take the P8Z68-V instead for a few quids more. Those Asus P67 boards have had their share of problems.

That board only has x16x4 btw. If you want SLI / XFire, you will want x8x8.

Phil2008 · 28 Aug 2011 at 00:39

Im deffo going to be upgrading in a few weeks now, and I might have a buyer for old pc, but he isnt having my gpu or hdds/ssd. Anyway Im getting ichy feet now, so I thought Id put my basket up on here and see what you think. I think I can afford a better cpu cooler, so hows the "Be Quiet"? Also has the motherboard got a good cpu fan profile in the bios thats fully adjustable?

stulid · 28 Aug 2011 at 00:43

Phil2008 said:
Im deffo going to be upgrading in a few weeks now, and I might have a buyer for old pc, but he isnt having my gpu or hdds/ssd. Anyway Im getting ichy feet now, so I thought Id put my basket up on here and see what you think. I think I can afford a better cpu cooler, so hows the "Be Quiet"? Also has the motherboard got a good cpu fan profile in the bios thats fully adjustable?

Nice, is Black and Grey the theme you are going for? The bequiet gets good reviews.

I dont know about the fan profile but there maybe a windows based tool that can alter the RPM at varying temps.

A bit like this, you just move the two colour balls to change the profile.

Phil2008 · 28 Aug 2011 at 01:11

stulid said:
Nice, is Black and Grey the theme you are going for? The bequiet gets good reviews.

I dont know about the fan profile but there maybe a windows based tool that can alter the RPM at varying temps.

A bit like this, you just move the two colour balls to change the profile.

Ah yeah I could use a window based fan profile if the bios profile is rubbish, thanks.

Yeah Im trying to keep the black theme and notice Ive picked a dvd drive, that's got similar writing to the case.. A tad sad I know.

Skepticx · 28 Aug 2011 at 11:04

Get a 2500k, OC to 4.5ghz. Will give you a huge boost