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barbosa

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First of all, Congrats to this forum and reviews from overclock3d.net. Always the best, always help me to choose the correct hardware.

I was prepared to spend my hard work earned money in a new 1366 system, but after watching the new 2500k 2600k reviews, it blew my mind reaching 5ghz on air.

So I had to review my choices.

Should I upgrade to 1366 or 1155? I know is the question at the moment here, but even reading other posts I was not satisfied and decided to open my own topic. And not forgetting that the 1366 is ageing.

At the moment my rig is an old Q6600 oc to 3.5ghz. I upgrade my GPU already to a GTX 570, just waiting to be delivered.

Before the sandy bridge review, my finger was about to press "add to shopping cart" for a asus sabertooth, 6gb mushkin redline ridgeback, and I7 950.

Now I thinking to get the 2600k, the sabertooth p67(when arrive), and would like 8gb of memory, since I use photoshop , but most of my use is for gaming.

Thanks for reading and every opinion is very welcome. I hope Tom give me his opinion as well.
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I would say go for Sandy Bridge. It outperforms the i7 950 at bot stock and OC (read toms excellent review) and even the i7 980x at some tests. Go for the 2500k and the sabertooth (reviews are up on some sites like www.guru3d.com) its an excellent board tho you might love or hate its design.
 
Weighing up everything, I'd say Sandybridge as for the price, it's looking pretty sweet all round. Don't be fooled by the 5GHz clock on air though, as Tom said in his review "we would never recommend a 1.6v overclock, once the main vendors sort their bios out we would say this CPU is easily capable of 4.5GHz". As Adicool said though, go with the 2500k, the 2600k isn't worth the extra £100 for the relatively small boost it gives you.
 
Yeah, that's probably one of the few places where you'll notice a large improvement with 2600k. If you NEED to have the best, and really do do A LOT of encoding and stuff, then it's probably might be worth it for you.

Personally, I'm mainly a general use and gaming guy so I couldn't justify paying the extra.
 
my bad. I read nothing about usb3 on p67 article. Tks for the information.

Checking about the memories speed compability between the boards

it seems sabertooth is 4 x DIMM, Max. 32 GB, DDR3 1866/1800/1600/1333/1066 Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory

Asus p8 pro 4 x DIMM, Max. 32 GB, DDR3 2200(O.C.)*/2133(O.C.)/1866(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066 Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory

Why is that? Bios?
 
I am about to buy my new pc, so far not too many replies or reviews around about new P67 based boards.

Guys, do you think is it worth it to wait the new Sabertooth? I dont want spend more than 180, 190 quid on a new board, Gigabyte UD7 looks very nice but very pricey.

I would like go for 8gb kits, but above 12800, any suggestions? If I pick 4gb instead are those good? Patriot Viper 2 Sector 5
 
I just upgraded from a Q6600 and 3GB of DDR2 800mhz to a 2500K and 4GB DDR3 1600mhz and I can see the difference and it was definitely worth the upgrade.

If you are upgrading I would say go with a 2600k if you can afford it, as you can see from reviews and benches it out performs it and is around the same price.
 
barbosa said:
Which mobo?
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Don't know if that was directed at me or not, ignore this if it wasn't.

I have the P8P67, it's enough for what I need it for, I hear some people say you can't crossfire with it and I have heard other people say that you can but it will affect your performance. I don't know much about CF so I can't tell you what the situation is there, i'd rather get one good card instead of two anyway.

Apart from that the new UEFI is pretty good, boot times are faster, auto tune for overclocking works ok, although I am stuck with the stock cooler for a while and temps are to high and i'd rather wait until I get a better cooler before I OC. The P8P67 also comes with Asus AI Suite II which can be run inside Windows and allows you to change settings for the BIOS, CPU, fans and a few other things.

I'd recommend this mobo to other people, it's pretty good in my eyes. The Gigabyte ones look pretty good as well thou, but I don't think the cheaper models come with UEFI and if you are going down the 1155 route you might as well get one that does have it.
 
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Don't know if that was directed at me or not, ignore this if it wasn't.

I have the P8P67, it's enough for what I need it for, I hear some people say you can't crossfire with it and I have heard other people say that you can but it will affect your performance. I don't know much about CF so I can't tell you what the situation is there, i'd rather get one good card instead of two anyway.

Apart from that the new UEFI is pretty good, boot times are faster, auto tune for overclocking works ok, although I am stuck with the stock cooler for a while and temps are to high and i'd rather wait until I get a better cooler before I OC. The P8P67 also comes with Asus AI Suite II which can be run inside Windows and allows you to change settings for the BIOS, CPU, fans and a few other things.

I'd recommend this mobo to other people, it's pretty good in my eyes. The Gigabyte ones look pretty good as well thou, but I don't think the cheaper models come with UEFI and if you are going down the 1155 route you might as well get one that does have it.
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tks man. I was thinking about this mobo, but not esata available. I have 2 external drives. Looks excellent board and very cheap too. What about overclocking?

does it perform well?

I think the Ud7 is a very nice board, dont get me wrong, but very pricey and I really dont see the point paying that amount of cash, in my opinion.
 
barbosa said:
tks man. I was thinking about this mobo, but not esata available. I have 2 external drives. Looks excellent board and very cheap too. What about overclocking?

does it perform well?

I think the Ud7 is a very nice board, dont get me wrong, but very pricey and I really dont see the point paying that amount of cash, in my opinion.
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I tried overclocking by just using the auto tune option and it did a 4.3ghz OC, I wouldn't recommend that on the stock cooler thou, temps were heading into the 70's so I set it back to stock speed.

As for the UD7, if you have the money and don't mind spending it it looks like a good board but TBH unless you are going to SLI/CF I don't see the point in getting it. The P8P67 is a good cheap board and does the same job.

If you need ESATA get one of these http://www.google.co.uk/products/ca...og_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCIQ8wIwAg#
 
SieB said:
I tried overclocking by just using the auto tune option and it did a 4.3ghz OC, I wouldn't recommend that on the stock cooler thou, temps were heading into the 70's so I set it back to stock speed.

As for the UD7, if you have the money and don't mind spending it it looks like a good board but TBH unless you are going to SLI/CF I don't see the point in getting it. The P8P67 is a good cheap board and does the same job.

If you need ESATA get one of these http://www.google.co.uk/products/ca...og_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCIQ8wIwAg#
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Definitely Im going with asus. Not a chance for SLI or CF here. Probably Sabertooth because looks very nice! Just coundt understand why this board supports max DDR3 1866??? Other boards goes up to DDR3 2200...

Still deciding between 2500k or 2600k. lets see.

tks!
 
Seems to me that you have a conundrum......

You're existing system still has some life left in it. So I guess it depends on why you think you need another system. If your existing system can't do something you need it to do then by all means go for it. Sandy Bridge has some nice things going for it but at a cost. A lot of the MB Bios' are still new and it's hard to see what all the new architecture can do. Also, it's possible, that in a few months, the new replacement for the 1366 will be out with the new wiz-bang stuff you just have to have. To borrow some of TT's magedom, sometimes you just have to go for it. The only problem I see is that to get the better/easier system config you have to pay a premium (Gigabyte UD7 MB).

So it boils down to your wallet and whether you want to pull the trigger now. If so look at the 1366 if you are seriously needing PCIE 16x2 or 3 and have a serious need for a render farm (LOL). It seems that 1156 is nearly dead.

I guess if it were me, I would lean towards Sandy Bridge but would wait a couple of months till the MB's and BIOS' mature a bit.

Just my 2 cents ....
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In the end I purchased:

- Asrock Extreme 4 £114(bargain IMO)

- 2600k

- 8gb Mushkin Redline Ridgeback

- Keep my OLD WC since the mobo has 775 holes( I hope it fits)

- Not shure about the SSD (old C300 or the sucessor TBA, old one very cheap now!)

- GPU still waiting for the GTX 570 EVGA SC, but on second thoughts about GTX 580.

Thats it!!!
 
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