Yet another 'please check my final PC build' thread/help

phillai · 26 Jun 2011 at 11:36

I'm aiming to overclock YET have a much more quiet PC...
Anything you would change here?

Fractal Design Define R3 Midi Tower Case - Black Pearl
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
XFX 750W Black Edition Modular Power Supply
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
Noctua NH-D14 Dual Radiator and Fan Quiet CPU Cooler
MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 Twin FrozR II 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Please note, these things are already taken care of from my present PC now - OCZ Agilty 3 60Gb as a boot up OS drive, 4 x 2TB drives for storage and LG GGW-H20L HD-DVD and Blu-Ray™ SATA Drive.

I might also slap in my 3 x Fractal Design 140mm case fans providing it's quiet enough...

Cookeh · 26 Jun 2011 at 11:43

Any reason you're upgrading from your current rig!?

phillai · 26 Jun 2011 at 11:55

I intend to give my present PC to my wife/daughter.

The PC they have now is an old school P4 3.0Ghz overclocked to 3.6Ghz.
It's OK but it won't even run Chrome Angry Birds in HD smoothly!!

I also intend to build a MAME arcade with this old P4 3.0Ghz and slap it in the garage.

Cookeh · 26 Jun 2011 at 12:13

Fair enough.

What will you be using your PC for?

If its gaming than an i5 2500k is cheaper and performs pretty much identically.

olivier renault · 26 Jun 2011 at 12:27

everything looks good. Can even XFire 6950 with the power supply if you wish so in the future. The R3 should have the space inside for the GPU (tight) and the NH-D14 (tight as well!!).

Second Prize Winner - gameover
Mobo: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R V2
CPU: i7 950 200x21 4.2GHz
GFX: HIS 6950
Case: Fractal Design R3 White
PSU: NZXT Hale90 850w
HDD: Kingston SSDNow V+ 100 Series 128GB
Cooling: Noctua NH-D14
Ram: 6GB Custom White Mushkin Ram

phillai · 26 Jun 2011 at 16:28

Cookeh said:
Fair enough.

What will you be using your PC for?

If its gaming than an i5 2500k is cheaper and performs pretty much identically.

Some gaming but it will be on a Dell U2711 27" which has a 2560x1440 res!

Whats the real difference between 2500 and 2600 CPU?

phillai · 26 Jun 2011 at 16:31

olivier renault said:
everything looks good. Can even XFire 6950 with the power supply if you wish so in the future. The R3 should have the space inside for the GPU (tight) and the NH-D14 (tight as well!!).

Thanks for the info and your input, Olivier.

Yeah, that was my intention, to slap another GPU to crossfire if I need to later on.

Cookeh · 26 Jun 2011 at 17:43

The real difference is the HyperThreading, the latter has it and the former does not.

Games however don't make use of HyperThreading, so there is no real advantage to the i7 over the i5.