ozz Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 I tend to upgrade my PC in a modular fashion on an ongoing basis and now its time for motherboard, processor and memory. I work in IT, but I'm totally out of touch with the techie side and I've no idea if I'm looking at good components or bad. So, if anyone can recommend a bundle or seperates I'll be a happy bunny Bits that are staying (so must be compatible) GIGABYTE Chassis (huge!) 550W PSU Arctic ATI Radeon HD 5700 150GB SSD Various other Sata drives Windows 7 Ultimate (32bit currently) Bits to replace: Gigabyte 965P - DS3 4GB DDR2 Ram Intel Core 2 [email protected] Budget:£200-£300 Usage: Gaming, internet After years of following AMD, I now prefer Intel, but not overly loyal. I really like the Gigabyte motherboards so would be my preference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozz Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 Bit more research done, looking like i5 chips on my budget, perhaps this combo? mobo proc then get 4 gigs of decent RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mark Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 I'm wanting to upgrade mine soon. You should have a look at this months Custom PC magazine which features the new Intel Sandy Bridge range of processors which are super fast but at a great price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mark Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 I'm wanting to upgrade mine soon. You should have a look at this months Custom PC magazine which features the new Intel Sandy Bridge range of processors which are super fast but at a great price. You can recognise them by their 4 digit model number, i.e. i5-2400 or i5-2500k or i7-2600k. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozz Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 I saw those Mark, but I was put off by the integrated graphics. I'll have to do some more reading on them but I can't believe integrated graphics is as good as a seperate graphics card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mark Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 I've just checked and the April's Custom PC mag has just come out, the article was in the March mag. It looks like the Sandy Bridge chips are head and shoulders above anything else right now. Tho I've been reading some more and Intel have discovered a design flaw on some of them so have stopped shipping the chips at fault. Anyway, you don't have to use the integrated graphics tho it depends on what you use your pc for, for general use it will probably be more than good enough. Tho bear in mind that you'd need a LGA1155 motherboard with the H67 chipset to take advantage of the onboard GPU as P67 chipset motherboards don't have a display connection, meaning you will have to use a graphcs card. Here is the magazine article http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/01/03/intel-sandy-bridge-review/1 ,there is some other useful stuff on that website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Sandy bridge with a PCI SATA Controller if you need it Anything other than Sandy Bridge is basically redundant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Is the Sandybridge problem fixed now Daman? Do any of the Sandy Bridge processors have hyper threading like the I7 950? Just checked, yeah they do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 There is a fix in place for the 'Faulty' SATA Controller chip but that needs to be implemented into millions of boards. B3 'fixed' motherboards will be around about Aril Time. Hyperthreading in todays range is limited to the i7 range, weather that be socket 1155, 1156 or 1366. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Ahh i get your comment about a PCI SATA controller now Could you fire me a PM with a price for i7 2500, suitable motherboard and 8GB suitable RAM please matey. Just weighing up some options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Mr Ozz - if you decide to sell your 4gb of DDR2 Ram could you please give me a shout. I had bought some to upgrade mine from the 2gb but it got lost in the post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Ahh i get your comment about a PCI SATA controller now Could you fire me a PM with a price for i7 2500, suitable motherboard and 8GB suitable RAM please matey. Just weighing up some options. i7 2500's don't exist.... i5 2500, i5 2500K, i7 2600 and i7 2600K are your nearest options. The 'k' series are the overclockable ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 i7 2500's don't exist.... i5 2500, i5 2500K, i7 2600 and i7 2600K are your nearest options. The 'k' series are the overclockable ones. Ah yes, noob error sorry 2600k i think will be my weapon of choice. Thing is there are so many 'compatible' boards for it that im totally bewildered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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