T-Mouse Posted April 11, 2011 Member ID: 10 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 35 Topic Count: 80 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1071 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 7 Achievement Points: 6264 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 3, 2013 Birthday: 09/03/1993 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Well folks I've finally had it with my junk-ass rig and I'm dipping into the savings to rebuild (keeping my decent parts, just need a CPU, MoBo and RAM) Looking for any input people care to offer, specifically the memory compatibility with the Core i7's, i.e. it seems to me the 9xx series supports only up to 1066 MHz effective clock, while the Sandy Bridge line supports up to 1333 MHz? Is that just for the integrated mem controller or what? Explain please Also if anyone has run across any sweet deals on US retail sites I'd be much obliged. ty all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukildme Posted April 12, 2011 Member ID: 1923 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 55 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 234 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1722 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 10/07/1967 Share Posted April 12, 2011 T-mouse, I just got: Corsair Force 60GB SSD ASUS P8P67 Pro DDR3 Mobo Intel Core i5 2500k quad core Ripjaws X F3 8GB DDR3 RAM all for around $700. The difference between the i5 and i7 I don't think warrants the extra cost, unless you have the money to throw around. I'd take the i5 and use the money for something else. Whether you get a 2500 or 2500 series, make sure you get the "K" model. It's the only model that allows overclocking. Since the i5 uses dual channel memory, you only have to buy two modules. The i7 is triple channel which means you have to buy memory in groups of 3. Again, more money. Right now my rig is running steady at 4.3 Ghz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CplMOFO Posted April 12, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 21, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Share Posted April 12, 2011 There is three different i7s... The i7 8** series, using dual-channel RAM (socket 1156 on the P55 platform) The i7 9** series, using triple-channel... (socket 1366 on the X58 platform) The new sandy bridge CPUs (i5 and i7, socket 1155 on the P67 platform)) are both using dual channel... Officially, the Sandy bridge CPUs are supporting the 1333mhz RAM variety...you can buy faster RAM, but it's not officially supported..it will work tho... i highly recommend that you buy 1.5Volts RAM....because of the memory controller now being on the CPU... Now, the RAM doesn't need to be really high-end, because the motherboard's FSB is not being overclocked (if you do overclock)... Sandy bridge is really the way to go compared to the older i5s and i7s... Sandy bridge is faster clock for clock, and also being built smaller, thus being running cooler...and it overclocks more...sandy is just more cost effective than older Intel CPUs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BoomSlang Posted April 12, 2011 Member ID: 94 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 7 Topic Count: 58 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 552 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 367 Achievement Points: 3739 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 5 hours ago Birthday: 12/03/1955 Device: Windows Share Posted April 12, 2011 http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i7-2600k-990x_13.html#sect0 Must read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
T-Mouse Posted April 13, 2011 Member ID: 10 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 35 Topic Count: 80 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1071 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 7 Achievement Points: 6264 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 3, 2013 Birthday: 09/03/1993 Author Share Posted April 13, 2011 Ty for the info Mofo and Boomslang, good stuff. Ended up going with: Intel Core i7 2600 w/ GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD3-B3 - $400 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1333 - $80 CoolerMaster Hyper 212 cooler (not even OC'ing but MicroCenter has crazy deals and I'm paranoid lmao) Total cost $510 Rest is just gonna be transplanted from old case to new lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsw 8.5 Posted April 13, 2011 Member ID: 906 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 143 Topic Count: 513 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 17082 Content Per Day: 3.26 Reputation: 42069 Achievement Points: 148542 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 677 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 11/30/1960 Device: Windows Share Posted April 13, 2011 not bad hope to do the same soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
CplMOFO Posted April 13, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 21, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Share Posted April 13, 2011 T-mouse, So you took the plunge...you'll be happy with it. You got the K-version of the 2600? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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