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 Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 14:22 Post subject: New PC help |
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I've read topics around in the hardware thread but just need a little help;
What do you think of this?
Intel i5 655K OC Unlocked, S1156, Clarkdale, 3.2GHz, DMI 2.5GT/s, 4MB Cache, 24xCore Ratio, 73W
Asus P7P55 LX, Intel P55 Express, S1156, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3 2200(OC), SATA 3Gb/s, SATA RAID, ATX
6GB (3x2GB) Corsair Vengeance, DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600) Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, XMP, 1.50V
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6GB (3x2GB) Corsair XMS3 Classic, DDR3 PC3-10666 (1333) Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, 1.65V
which is £15 cheaper.
I dont need anything else, thoughts?
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 14:24 Post subject: |
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Vengeance! XMS3 is budget stuff =)
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Werelds
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 14:38 Post subject: |
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An i5-760 costs exactly the same as the 655K and will clock just as far, but that's a quad core. Any reason why you went for the 655 in particular?
And I'd stick with Vengeance, I've got XMS3 at the moment and I'm not happy with it. Will be replacing this soon :E
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 14:56 Post subject: |
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Werlds not really hehe
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 15:14 Post subject: |
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Then I recommend the 760. Games won't use the extra cores, but most other things will and it's an insane overclocking monster. I can do 4.4 on air, 'nuff said 
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 15:15 Post subject: |
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Ah nice, thanks. I may grab one of those Corsair H50-1 Hydro also
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 16:21 Post subject: |
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Haha. So is it worth getting a good motherboard or something in between? Nothing dirt cheap.
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 16:23 Post subject: |
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The one you have selected there should be fine, may want to check some reviews to see if there's any problems, but I doubt it 
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 16:24 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 17:48 Post subject: |
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What's bad about xms3? I have them and they work fine :\
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 17:50 Post subject: |
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I have never had an ECS motherboard, so can't rate them at all.
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 20:00 Post subject: |
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Asrock is fine nowadays Sabin. They did suck a few years ago when everyone was having cap issues; everyone else moved away from the cheap stuff, they didn't. In the last year or so they've put out some mighty fine boards
And I miss the days when the consumer products from ECS were good, had a great board from them about a decade ago. Sadly, they've let the consumer side slip. Their professional products are still pretty good though, even IBM uses them so 
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 21:28 Post subject: |
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| Oddmaker wrote: | | Haha. So is it worth getting a good motherboard or something in between? Nothing dirt cheap. |
The P7P55 LX is a budget board with only 1 (!!!) fan header (beyond the CPU fan header). It will limit your overclocking etc..
Definitely go for a better board and i5 760.
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 21:56 Post subject: |
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I guess so! In which case I apologise wholeheartedly. I was just going by past experience of years-gone-by.... maybe it's time I started looking at ASRock boards for my Sandy Bridge build?
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 22:53 Post subject: |
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I have ASRock, it was a really great performance/budget deal ^^ Cannot complain. I'm not overclocker but the board I have has good upgrade potential...
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| Posted: Mon, 28th Mar 2011 16:48 Post subject: |
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Why would you buy a 1156 system whereas you can buy a 1155 one, which rotates around the same prices as the old socket?
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| Posted: Mon, 28th Mar 2011 22:22 Post subject: |
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Why H55??? P55 is the chipset for gaming systems with more PCI-lanes, raid-support and some other differences. Although, if you're never going to run crossfire/SLI or any form of RAID (through chipset ICH10-controller) you shouldn't "suffer". The H55-chipset was designed for the CPU's with built-in GPU's that Intel released.
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