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[JMMP]

Hi,

i need an advise from you guys!

my motherboard and my processor have been burned because the pump broke down on my Corsair H100 while I was away and also because i had a pretty high overclock on my I7 920.

I was watching some motherboards and processors and I stick with these 2 options:

1º-Asrock X58 Extreme6

2 °-i7 970

what do you think about these two pieces of hardware?

 

[Diablo]

Considering you are replacing both the motherboard and processor, would it not be better to go for a sandy bridge system. Especially considering the 970 is pretty expensive, and bordering on 3930k prices.

 

[kilobravo]

If you want to buy new cpu+mobo,go for i7 3939k+gigabyte x79-ud3.Price is the same as what you specced.

 

[JMMP]

you guys may be right but the i7 39390k its 170€ more expensive that i7 970 and talking about price/performance do you think that justifies the price difference?!

 

[kilobravo]

you guys may be right but the i7 39390k its 170€ more expensive that i7 970 and talking about price/performance do you think that justifies the price difference?!

Yes,the 3930k is so much faster and easily holds 4.5ghz oc on the ud3 mobo.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

If you want high powered then go for what's already been suggested.

If you want a cheap but equally powerful replacement get a 1055T and MSI 890FXA-GD65, is about as powerful as a 920, and a 1090T as a 930. You can pick up the pair of them for little over £220 (Thuban hexes Fold almost twice as good on Ubuntu 11.x, if that's a factor to consider).

 

[JMMP]

what do you think about this option the gigabyte ud3 and i7 3820?

 

[I Hunta x]

My vote would be the new 3930k over the 970 if you do memory intensive things aswell as gaming, easyer to OC like the 2500k/2600k and better clock for clock performance + a higher clock over all so even better performance.

The only reason i finished my 970 system in jan was because i got the 970 like 6 months ago for a damn good price and didnt fancy the hastle of selling it off to replace it with the bit faster hex, kinda wish i had now.

If its just for gaming with 1-2 graphics cards then my vote would be for a 2500k/2600k as the only benefit to the 3920 is the extra pci-e lanes and extra ram bandwidth from the quad channel memory that make relatively little difference in normal gaming machines.

All in all the 3820 isnt much different in price to a 2600k system but it is a bit of a pain to overclock due to how its semi locked.

 

[JMMP]

ok guys!

i need my computer to do a little bit of video rendering, games and day buy day web usage. So... what your telling me that with a 2600k (do you think that with a diferance of 30€ it´s better to buy the 2700k?) and 32gb of memory an corsair 128gb ssd and MSI Z68A-GD80 G3 I will be very happy comparing with the rig that i had (sabertooth x58 and I7 920 C0)?

 

[JMMP]

oh... i also will be doing overclock!!

 

[yassarikhan786]

Stick with the 2600K mate, the 2700K is the same CPU with a 100 Mhz difference in clock speed. No point paying more for essentially the same thing.

 

[MaXiMiZe]

Stick with the 2600K mate, the 2700K is the same CPU with a 100 Mhz difference in clock speed. No point paying more for essentially the same thing.

+1

 

[JMMP]

OK!

It will be 2600K!

What about the board MSI Z68A-GD80 G3 it´s a good buy?

 

[yassarikhan786]

No experience with MSI, but they do make really nice stuff, so I wouldn't be worried at all.

 

[JMMP]

thank you very much guys, for all your help and time spent helping me!

 

[MaXiMiZe]

thank you very much guys, for all your help and time spent helping me!

Any day anytime my friend. Glad to be of service

 

[yassarikhan786]

thank you very much guys, for all your help and time spent helping me!

You're welcome mate

 

[SnW]

So for a 2600K a "Z68" is best ??

 

[yassarikhan786]

So for a 2600K a "Z68" is best ??

Not really. Z68 just has more features compared to a P67 board, which you will probably not use if you're folding so no point going for a Z68 board over a P67 board. As far as I've heard overclocking wise, there is little to no difference between a good P67 and a good Z68 board.

 

[SnW]

Not really. Z68 just has more features compared to a P67 board, which you will probably not use if you're folding so no point going for a Z68 board over a P67 board. As far as I've heard overclocking wise, there is little to no difference between a good P67 and a good Z68 board.

That's the answer i was looking for , thank you matey

darn it, i am out of REPS , will do laterZsss