Colonel Mitch
9th January 2011, 11:23 PM
Okay, after the shiney new screen and new 6950's (which are now good as 6970's thanks to vox ;)), its time to upgrade ye old motherboard and cpu, and throw in a pci-e ssd for good measure.
Gunna get the Sandybridge i5 2500k (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-core-i5-2500k-unlocked-socket-1155-sandy-bridge-quad-core-33ghz-6mb-cache-95w-retail) for overclocking potential and good price, and finally a 240GB OCZ Revodrive (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/240gb-ocz-revo-drive-bootable-mlc-flash-x4-slot-full-height-75k-iops-read-540mb-s-write-530mb-s)
Looking at motherboards it between the gigabyte UD7 (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigabyte-ga-p67a-ud7-intel-p67-express-s-1155-pci-e-20-(x16)-ddr3-2133-sata-6gb-s-sata-raid) and the Asus Maximus 4 extreme (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-maximus-iv-extreme-intel-p67-express-s-1155-pci-e-20-(x16)-ddr3-2200(oc)-sata-6gb-s-eatx)
Reading up on the two, the maximus 4 seems to have issues with pushing further than 4.6 ghz, tho thats probably just a bios issue and going to be fixed later. Otherwise it looks nicer than the gigabyte board, has a 4x pci-e slot so I wont have to use one of the 4 16x slots for my revodrive (tho this isnt a problem is its doubtful to outrageous that i'd ever get 4 gfx cards, as even if i wanted to upgrade from the same series, id likely get 1 6990 which would get me quad crossfire from 1 card extra card), and has shinny (but unnecessary) overclocking features - using a laptop or bluetooth mobile phone .
Overall for a £80 price difference (ish) and also the fact that the maximus is still on pre order, im going for the gigabyte board.
This isnt the end tho, and im going to reinstall this pc into my old Mozart TX case (the huge tall square one from i31 and i34), and then watercool the gfx(s) and the cpu.
Ive got my pump/radiator already, and wil be getting 2 full card waterbocks and a decent nickel block for the cpu, already have 1 double fan slot radiator, gunna get another to install between cpu and GFX.
I was thinking it might be a good idea to add a second pump at roughly the same flowrate (750 LPH), jsut to make sure there isnt a problem with pressur. Any thoughts on if that would be neccesary?
Input and advice quickly please as im ordering tomorrow and would like revelations beforehand :P
Gunna get the Sandybridge i5 2500k (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-core-i5-2500k-unlocked-socket-1155-sandy-bridge-quad-core-33ghz-6mb-cache-95w-retail) for overclocking potential and good price, and finally a 240GB OCZ Revodrive (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/240gb-ocz-revo-drive-bootable-mlc-flash-x4-slot-full-height-75k-iops-read-540mb-s-write-530mb-s)
Looking at motherboards it between the gigabyte UD7 (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigabyte-ga-p67a-ud7-intel-p67-express-s-1155-pci-e-20-(x16)-ddr3-2133-sata-6gb-s-sata-raid) and the Asus Maximus 4 extreme (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-maximus-iv-extreme-intel-p67-express-s-1155-pci-e-20-(x16)-ddr3-2200(oc)-sata-6gb-s-eatx)
Reading up on the two, the maximus 4 seems to have issues with pushing further than 4.6 ghz, tho thats probably just a bios issue and going to be fixed later. Otherwise it looks nicer than the gigabyte board, has a 4x pci-e slot so I wont have to use one of the 4 16x slots for my revodrive (tho this isnt a problem is its doubtful to outrageous that i'd ever get 4 gfx cards, as even if i wanted to upgrade from the same series, id likely get 1 6990 which would get me quad crossfire from 1 card extra card), and has shinny (but unnecessary) overclocking features - using a laptop or bluetooth mobile phone .
Overall for a £80 price difference (ish) and also the fact that the maximus is still on pre order, im going for the gigabyte board.
This isnt the end tho, and im going to reinstall this pc into my old Mozart TX case (the huge tall square one from i31 and i34), and then watercool the gfx(s) and the cpu.
Ive got my pump/radiator already, and wil be getting 2 full card waterbocks and a decent nickel block for the cpu, already have 1 double fan slot radiator, gunna get another to install between cpu and GFX.
I was thinking it might be a good idea to add a second pump at roughly the same flowrate (750 LPH), jsut to make sure there isnt a problem with pressur. Any thoughts on if that would be neccesary?
Input and advice quickly please as im ordering tomorrow and would like revelations beforehand :P