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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 :D

 

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.

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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.

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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.

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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. :)

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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.

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