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Help with a new build

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Acce

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Hey peeps!
Just wanted to ask your input on the following rigg am about to order..

Fractal Design Define R3 Tower No PSU Black ATX
Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 600W PSU
ASUS MAXIMUS V GENE
Intel Core i7 2700K 3,5GHz Socket 1155 Box
Corsair Cooling Hydro H80
Crucial DDR3 BallistiX Elite 1866Mhz 8GB
Plextor SSD PX-128M3P 128GB 2.5"
Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC-Version

Some info
I did not list the keyboard and mouse (very individual what you like)
I will overclock some (not hardcore)
It will mostly be used for gaming but also some video encoding.
And after reading the ivy reviews i took the 2700k (got it at a very low price, same pricepoint as the 2500k) and the "small" boost in performance with ivy is not worth the added cost, thats my thinking anyway..

Upgrading from a i7 920 with a 1366 mb.

So will this rock or suck😀
 
If you're not really going to overclock whats the point of the H80?

Also gaming performance should see a decent enough increase (no idea what res/previous card is) as well as the encoding. You seem to be buying some of the flashier hardware and that does come at quite a price premium, but if you're willing to pay for that I guess it's up to you.

In terms of the raw hardware aspect:

Case: That's entirely up to you actually

MoBo: If you don't think Ivy is worth the additional cost, why are you buying a board that was designed with Ivy Bridge in mind? You could buy an older board for less and still get all the performance out of your 2700k

CPU: Hey if you can get it for the same price as the i5-2500k all the power to you.

CPU Cooler: Not really necessary unless you're planning on a decently high OC as it's quite a bit more than standard air coolers for just a tad more performance which is only really necessary if you're doing a serious OC imo. Plenty of air coolers out there that will match the H80 temps if there's not a serious OC involved (and some might beat it).

Ram: Expensive set of ram, practically pointless if you're not going for a high overclock as just about any ~$40 set of 8 GB of ram will be just fine.

SSD: Don't look into SSDs enough to know if they're any good or not, but I'm sure the Gen Hardware folks will be along in full force to say go with a Crucial M4 as it seems to be the best in terms of performance and reliability.

Video Card: Uhhh do you really need a factory overclocked version? The default numbers for this card are pretty damn out there, all I can see an OC'd card doing is using up more energy/causing more heat for roughly the same numbers (unless you're gaming beyond 1920x1080 in which case I have no idea what to recommend).
 
krnmastersgt said:
If you're not really going to overclock whats the point of the H80?

Also gaming performance should see a decent enough increase (no idea what res/previous card is) as well as the encoding. You seem to be buying some of the flashier hardware and that does come at quite a price premium, but if you're willing to pay for that I guess it's up to you.

In terms of the raw hardware aspect:

Case: That's entirely up to you actually

MoBo: If you don't think Ivy is worth the additional cost, why are you buying a board that was designed with Ivy Bridge in mind? You could buy an older board for less and still get all the performance out of your 2700k

CPU: Hey if you can get it for the same price as the i5-2500k all the power to you.

CPU Cooler: Not really necessary unless you're planning on a decently high OC as it's quite a bit more than standard air coolers for just a tad more performance which is only really necessary if you're doing a serious OC imo. Plenty of air coolers out there that will match the H80 temps if there's not a serious OC involved (and some might beat it).

Ram: Expensive set of ram, practically pointless if you're not going for a high overclock as just about any ~$40 set of 8 GB of ram will be just fine.

SSD: Don't look into SSDs enough to know if they're any good or not, but I'm sure the Gen Hardware folks will be along in full force to say go with a Crucial M4 as it seems to be the best in terms of performance and reliability.

Video Card: Uhhh do you really need a factory overclocked version? The default numbers for this card are pretty damn out there, all I can see an OC'd card doing is using up more energy/causing more heat for roughly the same numbers (unless you're gaming beyond 1920x1080 in which case I have no idea what to recommend).
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Maybe i was not so clear at my intentions with the overclocking😀
I will be pushing it to around 4ghz at least, and one more good thing about the h80 vs a good air cooler is that it takes less space. I took the OC version mostly coz of the impressive fan/heatsink it has, worth the small added cost imo. Old card is a gtx 260 btw😀
Regarding the SSD i just read "World's fastest sustained random read/ write speed - 75,000/69,000 IOPS at 4K le size, and impressive 540/450 MB/s sequential read/ write speed" and i was hooked, i do not want sandforce either, so that narrows it down.
 
IMO, the i7-920 is still a very capable CPU today. It is on par with the i7-2700k for video encoding. I would just upgrade the GPU/RAM/PSU.
 
azeem40 said:
IMO, the i7-920 is still a very capable CPU today. It is on par with the i7-2700k for video encoding. I would just upgrade the GPU/RAM/PSU.
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It is not. It is slower than i5-2500K for video encoding. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/47?vs=288

DivX: 39 vs 31.3 seconds (920 vs 2500K)
x264 1st pass: 75 vs 100 fps
x264 2nd pass: 27 vs 27.7 fps
Cinebench R10 multithreaded: 16211 vs 20381 pts

Plus, 2500K overclocks better.

But I agree, it is a capable CPU. I'm not planning to upgrade mine until Haswell, I just don't need to.

OP, you should post all the hardware you have now, and list answers to these questions.
 
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Acce said:
Maybe i was not so clear at my intentions with the overclocking😀
I will be pushing it to around 4ghz at least, and one more good thing about the h80 vs a good air cooler is that it takes less space. I took the OC version mostly coz of the impressive fan/heatsink it has, worth the small added cost imo. Old card is a gtx 260 btw😀
Regarding the SSD i just read "World's fastest sustained random read/ write speed - 75,000/69,000 IOPS at 4K le size, and impressive 540/450 MB/s sequential read/ write speed" and i was hooked, i do not want sandforce either, so that narrows it down.
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4Ghz is nothing on a Sandy Bridge chip. You could do that on a stock cooler if you didn't mind the noise. Save some money and get a Hyper 212. The H80 is roughly the same volume as a tower cooler, it's just split into two pieces.

While the Plextor drive is certainly a good SSD, it isn't worth the premium that they are charging for it. $50 less gets you an M4, which won't be noticeably different outside of benchmarks.

For the rest, I agree with krnmastersgt.
 
mfenn said:
4Ghz is nothing on a Sandy Bridge chip. You could do that on a stock cooler if you didn't mind the noise. Save some money and get a Hyper 212.
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Mfenn beat me to it...

I have my 2500K at 4.1GHz with a 212+, it runs in the low 70C's in LinX testing, low 50C's playing CoD4 and MW2... no big deal. The key to controlling temps is lower voltage... just saying. 😀
 
Charlie98 said:
Mfenn beat me to it...

I have my 2500K at 4.1GHz with a 212+, it runs in the low 70C's in LinX testing, low 50C's playing CoD4 and MW2... no big deal. The key to controlling temps is lower voltage... just saying. 😀
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Weird, I OCed to 4.4 GHz, using 1.28v, with the same cooler, and barely exceed 65C on full load.
 
Acce said:
Hey peeps!
Just wanted to ask your input on the following rigg am about to order..

Fractal Design Define R3 Tower No PSU Black ATX
Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 600W PSU
ASUS MAXIMUS V GENE
Intel Core i7 2700K 3,5GHz Socket 1155 Box
Corsair Cooling Hydro H80
Crucial DDR3 BallistiX Elite 1866Mhz 8GB
Plextor SSD PX-128M3P 128GB 2.5"
Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC-Version

Some info
I did not list the keyboard and mouse (very individual what you like)
I will overclock some (not hardcore)
It will mostly be used for gaming but also some video encoding.
And after reading the ivy reviews i took the 2700k (got it at a very low price, same pricepoint as the 2500k) and the "small" boost in performance with ivy is not worth the added cost, thats my thinking anyway..

Upgrading from a i7 920 with a 1366 mb.

So will this rock or suck😀
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I like the build.
🙂

Although I don't think that Fractal will cool as well as a few other cases in that price range.
 
azeem40 said:
Weird, I OCed to 4.4 GHz, using 1.28v, with the same cooler, and barely exceed 65C on full load.
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Different ambient temps, different stress testing programs, and of course different physical chips.
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I really believe I have a mediocre chip... I can't keep stable above 4.3GHz and keep temps down, so I'm happy with what I have. I'm not obsessed with benchmarks, but I use LinX (running in W7) as a baseline for temperatures and stability. Luck of the draw, I guess.
 
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