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chiv
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 Posted: Sat, 2nd Jul 2011 08:52 Post subject: ok, so what motherboard for 2500k |
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i think ive decided to get a 2500k for my new processor.. i mean price/performance makes sense... but how about the motherboard?
been reading here, and a lot of you are saying asus is a bit iffy... the evga boards that are available here are socket 1366 so those are out...
im thinking about gigabyte then... how do those stack up? i need something solid, that'll be a really good board i can learn to overclock with.. and also needs to handle my ultra-120 cooler and gives enough room for the stuff i want to hook up to it
at the moment i have an evga 680i, so that would be the comparison board i guess.
looking at:
$578.95 NZD - GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 INTEL Z68 DDR3 USB3+SATA3 RAID SLI+ CROSSFIRE LGA1155 PCI-E
(but is it really worth the money?)
$444.95 NZD - GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD5-B3 INTEL Z68 DDR3 USB3+SATA3 RAID SLI+ CROSSFIRE LGA1155 PCI-E
$365.00 NZD - GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD5-B3 INTEL P67 DDR3 USB3+SATA3 RAID SLI+ CROSSFIRE LGA1155 PCI-E
alternatively, if you have the time, go here: and build me a 2500k/mobo/ram set  - the drop-downs list all available ram sets/mobos that the site has that will work with the chip.
http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/components/componentview-combo.asp?partid=14247
thanks
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Aeon
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| Posted: Sat, 2nd Jul 2011 14:48 Post subject: |
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Why don't you go for a MSI GD55 or GD65?
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Ankh
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| Posted: Sat, 2nd Jul 2011 15:50 Post subject: |
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Ive got the last one on Your list and Im happy with it.
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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garus
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| Posted: Sat, 2nd Jul 2011 16:27 Post subject: |
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chiv
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| Posted: Sun, 3rd Jul 2011 12:36 Post subject: |
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i guess im going none of the above.
after comparing shit, and thinking about how much i want to spend for what i want it to do, i think im going to go for the asus p8p67 pro b3, with the 2500k... i mean i dont want to go crazy with the price, i want something thats solid, and gives me some room to learn a bit of overclocking.
so it'd be:
2500k
asus p8p67 pro b3
2x4 gb corsair vengeance 2x4GB DDR3-1600 CL8
and that goes with my gtx 570.
reasonable setup?
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| Posted: Sun, 3rd Jul 2011 14:31 Post subject: |
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Get the basic p8p67 B3,pro's not that worth if you value ya money..
i was going for that setup (except it would be 2500 without the k,not an OC'er here),the same board without PRO and,to start with,4 or 8 GB of RAM...thou i have a 460GTX
Worth the money in my opinion...also pick up a Zalman CNPS10X EXtreme or something for the CPU Cooler
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| Posted: Sun, 3rd Jul 2011 23:22 Post subject: |
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Asrock P67/Z67 Extreme 4, very good board and cheap !
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Jul 2011 14:29 Post subject: |
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^ 2500k and 2600k are practically the same when considered to be used for gaming. As well as their overclocking capabilities.
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Aeon
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Jul 2011 15:16 Post subject: |
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Well, if he's aimed at heavy encoding or rendering, or other multi-threaded tasks, the 2600k's hyper-threading would be beneficial. But purely for gaming - it won't matter which one of the two CPUs is chosen.
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Jul 2011 15:49 Post subject: |
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Tho 2600K generally overclocks better than 2500K. But Sandy Bridge at 4Ghz destroys everything, after 4.5Ghz its not worth to overclock usually more considering how much voltage bump it needs.
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garus
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Jul 2011 18:49 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Jul 2011 19:12 Post subject: |
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chiv
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| Posted: Wed, 6th Jul 2011 02:02 Post subject: |
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well i think my thread got a little hijacked, but as far as my build goes, i went ahead and bought what i said i was going to buy... and im happy with it, i cant wait to get it up and running on the weekend.
...now where did i leave that copy of crysis... (something no one is ever - EVER - going to say about crysis 2, crytek, ya twits!!)
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| Posted: Wed, 6th Jul 2011 10:35 Post subject: |
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And I didn't even have to comment in here, we seem to have a whole bunch of people who have been looking at Sandy Bridge systems 
@ chiv: sure they will. As in "where did I leave that copy of Crysis 2, so I can destroy it after having seen Crysis 1 again" 
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chiv
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Jul 2011 12:57 Post subject: |
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well ive installed everything and its booted up ok.. .just in the middle of reinstalling everything (did a format, installing win 7 64)
its not finding my soundcard at the moment though, dammit  everything else is going well.
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chiv
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Jul 2011 15:25 Post subject: |
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well this is a plesant surprise. getting around 50fps on god of war 2 using ps2 emulator... on my old build it felt like the game was always running in slow motion, but now its nice and fast and actually playable.
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| chiv wrote: | | well this is a plesant surprise. getting around 50fps on god of war 2 using ps2 emulator... on my old build it felt like the game was always running in slow motion, but now its nice and fast and actually playable. |
No BIOS nor RAM configuration in BIOS on first boot?..i mean,you just placed everything and you didnt even configured the BIOS and it worked at 1st time like a charm without Cold booting?...aka many reboots to make it start ?
Please specify
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chiv
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Jul 2011 18:09 Post subject: |
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| DV2 wrote: | | chiv wrote: | | well this is a plesant surprise. getting around 50fps on god of war 2 using ps2 emulator... on my old build it felt like the game was always running in slow motion, but now its nice and fast and actually playable. |
No BIOS nor RAM configuration in BIOS on first boot?..i mean,you just placed everything and you didnt even configured the BIOS and it worked at 1st time like a charm without Cold booting?...aka many reboots to make it start ?
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"scratches head"
only thing i did was set it to run dx11 hardware and configured my 360 pad...
i did the speed hacks, but only ticked the recommended boxes and left the cyclerate and cycle stealing sliders on 1 (default) and thats all...
but yeah.. i just boot the iso and it always works straight away...
have been playing around with scaling so the fps took a bit of a hit, but @ around 40fps stable, its smooth enough to play.
additionally, is coretemp accurate? it says im running @ 22 degrees C for each core at the moment. is that normal or is coretemp giving me some funky numbers... my old processor was always idling at like 45 for each core.... |
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chiv
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| Posted: Mon, 11th Jul 2011 03:44 Post subject: |
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bah you quoted the ps2 bit!
only thing i did was to play around in the boot settings in the bios... windows blue-screened when i tried to start the machine up, but i didnt really care (and it was probably fixable), i was planning a clean install and upgrade to 64 anyway.
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only problem im having is my soundcard isnt being detected. im worried its a problem with the motherboard... id rather the soundcard was dead.
its a soundblaster xtremegamer oem, and whenever i try and install the drivers i get an error saying setup is unable to detect a compatible product or something along those lines, and i KNOW i have the right drivers.
i wonder if theres some settings on the bios i need to fix, some motherboard drivers or apps i need to download, or the card doesnt like 64-bit windows 7... on my evga board with win7 32, it worked ok..
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