My new to be pc

[SL33PY]

I just placed the orders for all the components. My new monster costs a whooping 1275 EUR which imo is not a lot. since my previously bought machine costed more 6 years ago. 'My' current machine is in fact my wife's 4 yo monster which costed us 2000 EUR way back when

• Intel Core i5 2500K 4x 3.30GHz So.1155 BOX 1 EUR 172,60*
• ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 1155 ATX VGA OnBoard 1 EUR 151,13*
• 2000GB Samsung EcoGreen F4 HD204UI 5.400U/min... 2 EUR 113,80* <- this is the price for two of them
• Optiarc DVD-Brenner AD-7260S-0B SATA Schwarz Bulk 1 EUR 16,38*
• 8GB (2x 4096MB) G.Skill RipjawsX DDR3-1600 DIMM... 1 EUR 41,83*
• 120GB Corsair Force Series 3 CSSD-F120GB3-BK... 1 EUR 145,30*
• 775W Thermaltake ToughPower XT 80+ Silver Modular 1 EUR 82,64*
• Cooler Master HAF Mini 922M no power supply 1 92,77 111
• MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit SB-Version Englisch 1 78,43 111
• MSI N560GTX Twin Frozr II, 1GB GDDR5, PCI-Express (169,10111 x 2) 338,20 111

I hope i didn't forget anything. I'll get an extra cooling fan for the side of the case, but the price was the same in Germany as in Belgium, so I'll get it locally. Everything else is way cheaper in Germany than in Belgium.

There is a discrepancy between these listed prices and the grand total, that's because I didn't list transport and insurance costs. All products come from two separate German dealers. With my birthday comming up, I hope my wife will get me a 24" monitor to go with this superfly SLI monster of mine

[M.Steiner]

From memory your system seems to have similar specs to what Anny & Mech's are iirc.
Not sure on ASRock motherboards as I've always gone with ASUS personally. Ava and I looked at some of the HAF cases at one point but ultimately decided on the CM Storm Sniper. They were very nice looking cases and the ones we looked at had plenty of room for bigger graphics cards & good air flow too but since we have animals around the place we went with the sniper since it came with dust filters as standard and a fan controller too. The insides are pretty much the same though from what I remember.
Sweet specs though Sl33py, looking forward to maxing some games out I bet? ^^

You'll have to get The Witcher 2 etc running on that thing asap!. Not long for BF3 either hehe

[SL33PY]

The thing is that I can play most games still at max on my wife's 4yo machine. But as I told my wife I want my own desktop back. No discussion on who gets to go on the pc. This pc will last me another 6 years or so. By then we probable plug our brains into the internet

[Futile Resistance]

Do you plan on OCing? I'd recommend getting the i7 2600K instead of the i5 2500K due to its insane OC potential (which will help future proof it a little bit). People have easily hit 4.5 GHz on air with the 2600K.

I like your SSD choice. The new Sandforce 3 controllers are beast.

[SL33PY]

I did think about that too FR, but budget was somewhat restricted. So no i7 but i5 it's the only thing that I had to give into, and the 2500K is easily OC'able, only need an aftermarket cooler to get it started. OC'ing is also the reason why i got DDR3-1600 instead of DDR3-1333

Also all the parts were already ordered before posting the built to be here

[Futile Resistance]

Also all the parts were already ordered before posting the built to be here

Sneaky

Still beats my C2D setup though. I'm really starting to feel it in recent releases like DX:HR.

[SL33PY]

all things run smooth and temperatures are low i have a lot of room left on the oc side... currently its not necessary

running two eve clients at 1920x1080 full option at 40 fps each

[BlackDove]

Oh it's an i5.

Did they fix the shit with the i5 on SandyBridge? The memory bandwidth?

Because on the Nehalem architecture, IIRC SLI/Crossfire was a no-no.

[SL33PY]

I have a mainboard with the Z68 chipset. SLI & CrossFire are a go afaik? Any certain way to test?

[Padishar]

Grats on the new killer rig!

I think I would have went with two OCZ Vertex2 60GB drives and raid 0 them for the same price.
Or spent 50 euro more and went with two vertex3 drives.

[SL33PY]

One upgrade that I also can do is add another ssd as a ramdrive, since my chipset supports it... that would be really nasty

[SL33PY]

been thinking about upgrading as of late

I7, 2x GTX660, another 8GB ram and a second 1080p 24" monitor

Total cost atm would be about 850€

So I'll probable wait a bit and then upgrade in stages starting this fall

[SL33PY]

I need to post my update, I bought a second 24" monitor (the same that I had already)

And I upgraded my GTX 560's to two GTX 760 4GB ed. 's (back in may last year )

I'm looking to increase my ram, buy a 27" 4K monitor and upgrading the cpu to an i7, some guy in sma is going to upgrade his pc and as such he'll have an extra i7-3770K that I can buy on the cheap

[M.Steiner]

Methinks someone is planning ahead for The Witcher 3's arrival!
Good thinking

[SL33PY]

I just hope that guy is going to sell his stuff before The Witcher 3. He also offered his motherboard and after checking it out it seems that mine is just shite for overclocking

I got an AS Rock Z68 Extreme 4 Gen3 But I wonder... What happens to ones Window Install when he rips out the mobo and cpu and replaces that with another one?

[NF]

The drivers should all update easily enough - where you might have issues with Windows Genuine Advantage validation when it detects a new computer....in particular when you are dealing with an OEM version of Windows as these are setup to not reactivate when they detect significant changes to the hardware (Motherboard & CPU) from the first specification you installed it on.

Non-OEM licence keys for Windows are usually fine with the worst case scenario of you spending some time on the phone to Microsoft re-activating it.

Even if you have an OEM copy it is still worth ringing them up as I have managed to get one OEM copy of Windows reactivated that way (versus 2 times that they just flat refused.)

Worst case scenario you can generally pick up a genuine Windows 7 key for £40 these days..

[edit] oooooh! just had a thought..if you do have an OEM copy and it is not liking the upgrade then simply take Microsoft up on the Windows 10 Beta.. it's quite solid despite being Beta and OEM keys are perfectly fine to upgrade from. [/edit]

[SL33PY]

well I was planning to upgrade anyway, got windows 7 installed currently

maybe if I upgrade the mobo first then reactivate and then upgrade the cpu