What motherboard

[UseItNow]

I know, he aint good with computers and so thinks its good (i dont want to dis his 2.2k investment... lol!). Flipped a coin between i5 and i7.... i5 won like 10 times, each time i tried it would be i5 that won!.

So ive just bought the following:

LN39507
Asus P8Z68-V, Intel Z68 Motherboard
LN41764
8GB (2x4GB) Kingston DDR3 HyperX Genesis Grey Memory
LN36726
Intel Core i5 2500K Unlocked Quad Core CPU
LN40619
ThermalTake TPX-675MPCUK

Total: £401.69
Decided to take out scansure which was £12, only because i know myself to be clumsy and with my water loop i can be pretty sure if i didnt get it i would have a leak immediately and kill everything lol! Still it was £25 cheaper than ebuyer, scanshot bundle was for all of it bar the psu for £323 .

Cant wait! And yeah my i5 will decimate in game and along with my soon to be 7900 series AMD gpu when its released .

Enjoy the build.

Waiting on the AMD HD7900 series but it looks like it'll be next year before anything now? Unless you know something I don't?

Thanks.

[Hicks12]

haha cat i will certainly make sure i dont grab a 7900 nvidia chip hehe .

And yeah, its out two months time and the pricing is similar to the current levels and it will be using the new ram which kicks butt .



(im joking, i dont really know... im hoping end of this year but that will most likely be the low end and the high end will be jan-march )

[hnosyalnif]

Still making a decision of motherboard myself. Decided to go with the ASUS P8Z68-V Pro, now just debating whether it is worth waiting for the Gen3 version. Should only be a week or so. So I think on balance it is worth waiting as it is unlikely I'll make wholesale upgrades anytime soon and having that extra (more than likely unneccessary) upgradability just eases my mind slightly.

Consider my last build was 5 years ago, I can just see myself not upgrading for that long again and the Gen3 board would allow me to part upgrade whilst keeping the main parts there. So new GFX and extra RAM would be the first decisions to make when the time comes.

Read good reviews on the non-Gen3 board so it should be perfect for my needs.

2500k
P8Z68-V Pro
8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
2Gb 560ti

[melon]

Still making a decision of motherboard myself. Decided to go with the ASUS P8Z68-V Pro, now just debating whether it is worth waiting for the Gen3 version. Should only be a week or so. So I think on balance it is worth waiting as it is unlikely I'll make wholesale upgrades anytime soon and having that extra (more than likely unneccessary) upgradability just eases my mind slightly.

Consider my last build was 5 years ago, I can just see myself not upgrading for that long again and the Gen3 board would allow me to part upgrade whilst keeping the main parts there. So new GFX and extra RAM would be the first decisions to make when the time comes.

Read good reviews on the non-Gen3 board so it should be perfect for my needs.

2500k
P8Z68-V Pro
8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
2Gb 560ti

I wrote to Scan about this Gen3 board , they said they should be getting them in this week , and perhaps have it in a bundle in 2.

I suppose I may as well wait then.

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[Pob255]

Well as no card has yet saturated pci-e 2.0 I'd not be too worried about it personally.
Heck I don't think any single gpu card has actually saturated pci-e 1.0 x16 yet, I think the 6990 is the only card that has saturated it

[hnosyalnif]

I wrote to Scan about this Gen3 board , they said they should be getting them in this week , and perhaps have it in a bundle in 2.

I suppose I may as well wait then.

m

Yeah sent them another message today about it.

Well as no card has yet saturated pci-e 2.0 I'd not be too worried about it personally.
Heck I don't think any single gpu card has actually saturated pci-e 1.0 x16 yet, I think the 6990 is the only card that has saturated it

I think the 590 is close to doing it as well but it is otherwise pretty pointless and I know that.

I am only getting the board as it allows me more leeway with upgrades (this year is the first upgrade I've done in 5 years so the idea is to do a partial upgrade in the next 18 months or so before a full upgrade later on). Hopefully it will allow me to keep the board + PSU and then upgrade to Ivybridge and a PCi-E 3.0 card in a few years. It seems like it is going to be similar in price as well so between the 2 I'll go with the one that allows more upgrades hence the Gen3 board.

[Pob255]

I forgot about the gtx590.
Yes it probably does as you're basically running two cards in a single slot which means they'd each be running at the equivlent of a pci-e 2.0 x4 (pci-e 1.0 is half the band width of pci-e 2.0)