[DEAD] Corei5-4590, MSI Gaming Z87M motherboard, Team Elite 8GB DDR3 1600 - $290 AR

[SteveGrabowski]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboB...=Combo.2096534

Rebate is only $10, so $300 before rebate. Seems like a pretty hot deal if you need a complete platform upgrade. The board is pretty well reviewed, is Haswell Refresh ready, and has two PCIE slots so you can use it for SLI.

 

[WT]

Saw this yesterday and assumed it would be generating some discussion. Guess everybody is either tapped out financially or awaiting the next gen stuff. Great price on this combo. It would save me a trip to MC going with this bundle.

 

[VirtualLarry]

No longer available?

 

[WT]

No longer available?

Yup, it was a daily deal shellshocker I believe.

I am yet another SB 2500k user on a Z68 that feels the need to move up to the Z87 or Z97 build. Wouldn't be all that bad, but I also need to get a GPU as well. I bought a 7970 back in the fall hoping it would quell my upgrade fever, but it only delayed the inevitable for a few months.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Yup, it was a daily deal shellshocker I believe.

I am yet another SB 2500k user on a Z68 that feels the need to move up to the Z87 or Z97 build. Wouldn't be all that bad, but I also need to get a GPU as well. I bought a 7970 back in the fall hoping it would quell my upgrade fever, but it only delayed the inevitable for a few months.

Wow, why would you want to do a platform upgrade up to Haswell when Sandy Bridge is almost as powerful at stock and overclocks better? I'd be holding out until Intel can pull off the next Sandy Bridge.

 

[WT]

My 2500k is a horrible OCer .. I can't top 4.1 with any stability. I can get it to boot at 4.3 but it isn't stable, and at 4.5 it won't even boot. Note that I am using an H80 and the cores don't go over 32c@load.

Back in the day, if you populated all of the RAM slots, you could lose some headroom on a chip, so I wonder if my 4x4GB sticks are the problem. I think a GPU upgrade from my 7970 to a 290 would maybe be a better option than the 4590/Z87 combo. The only game I find myself playing these days is Company of Heroes 2, which abuses any rig you throw at it.