PC upgrade

[sotosev]

I am thinking to upgrade my pc. The reason is better frame rates in A-10 Warthog! Do you think that I make right choice or I need to reconsider some of the parts? Also I will overclock to 4 or 5 Ghz! Or maybe I wait for next gen processors! Will i be happy for at least next two years?

 

CPU intel i7 2600k

Board ASUS P8Z68-V

also

Corsair H60 cooler

and

Case ANTEC THREE HUNDRED

 

Some parts I have from my current PC that I'll use

 

Graphic card Geforce 550Ti

MEMORY 8G DDR3

HDD 500g Western digital

Power supply TAGAN 600 watt

[EtherealN]

Since you are re-using 550 I suspect you might be looking at saving a wee bit of money on it? If so, I'd suggest going for the i5-2500K. You lose HT and 2MB of L3, but game performance will be pretty much identical in both DCS and mainstream games.

 

Aside from that, looking pretty good, though I'm not too impressed with the H60's. A good tower cooler or H70/H100 would be better if you can make them fit in the case - H70 is quite loud though.

[sotosev]

Since you are re-using 550 I suspect you might be looking at saving a wee bit of money on it? If so, I'd suggest going for the i5-2500K. You lose HT and 2MB of L3, but game performance will be pretty much identical in both DCS and mainstream games.

 

Aside from that, looking pretty good, though I'm not too impressed with the H60's. A good tower cooler or H70/H100 would be better if you can make them fit in the case - H70 is quite loud though.

 

Money is always a case to me, so thanks for the info!

 

Any suggestion to other model for a good cpu cooler?

Edited November 29, 2011 by sotosev

[Bolt-1]

Money is always a case to me, so thanks for the info!

 

Any suggestion to other model for a good cpu cooler?

 

There's nothing wrong with the stock cooler that comes with the 2600K. Why not use that, save up some money, then get what you really want.

I can give you 100 suggestion's. But it really is dependent upon how much your willing to part with. As almost any aftermarket cooler is better than stock, once a given price point is reached.

Edited November 29, 2011 by Bolt-1

[agrasyuk]

Any suggestion to other model for a good cpu cooler?

 

quite a surprise but my mildly clocked 2500K had reasonable temps even on stock cooler (although in antec1200 case - uber airflow). i'm not convinced by those closed loop water systems, for the price i would expect better cooling and less noise. and frankly for the price any other cooler will have hard time beating the "monster" 212+

[sotosev]

There's nothing wrong with the stock cooler that comes with the 2600K. Why not use that, save up some money, then get what you really want.

I can give you 100 suggestion's. But it really is dependent upon how much your willing to part with. As almost any aftermarket cooler is better than stock, once a given price point is reached.

 

Can I overclock to 4.5Ghz by stock cooler?

[EtherealN]

Can I overclock to 4.5Ghz by stock cooler?

 

I wouldn't do that myself, and I would generally suggest against the stock cooler actually (even when not overclocking there's really cheap and well-performing alternatives). It's not bad per se, but it is relatively easy to end up with a botched install of it and then you end up having to dismount it, carefully replace silver paste (separate purchase) and try again.

 

I'd probably suggest something from Noctua or Zalman. Both have some pretty good ones, but Noctua are a notch higher on the performance mark.

 

Agrasyuk, to me the "big deal" with the pre-sealed "water" coolers (all liquid-cooling is closed-loop, you do NOT want to cool your computer from the water-main... :P ) is that you can get good cooling performance without having a MASSIVE radiator block in the middle of your mobo. In the case of the H100, for example, you mount the radator at the top exhaust (if your case supports a 2x1 12cm radiator/fan assembly) and still have extremely easy access to everything on the mobo.

[Rhinox]

Can I overclock to 4.5Ghz by stock cooler

Maybe. It also depends on overall airflow in your case. But I'd recommend to invest at least in better-than-stock air-cooler if you want to touch 4.5GHz (i.e. yasya/mugen for ~30-40 bucks, I'm running i5-2500k@4.6GHz with it).

[cichlidfan]

I'd probably suggest something from Noctua or Zalman. Both have some pretty good ones, but Noctua are a notch higher on the performance mark.

 

Indeed. I have one of each running at home and the Noctua is not only a bit better but it is significantly quieter than the Zalman.

[sotosev]

Thanks guys ! I made my final decision, I just need to be patient to get new staff.

 

Asus P8Z68-V

I5 2500K

COOLERMASTER HYPER 212 PLUS

final choice, thinking a lot about putting the money on it,

SSD OCZ VTX3 120 GB

So exited to see the benefits of it!

[agrasyuk]

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to me the "big deal" with the pre-sealed "water" coolers (all liquid-cooling is closed-loop, you do NOT want to cool your computer from the water-main... :P ) is that you can get good cooling performance without having a MASSIVE radiator block in the middle of your mobo. In the case of the H100, for example, you mount the radator at the top exhaust (if your case supports a 2x1 12cm radiator/fan assembly) and still have extremely easy access to everything on the mobo.

c'mon, you just being picky here :) closed loop in this instance means that unlike custom loop the system in question is closed and you can not modify the flow to include additional water blocks or interim radiators between CPU and GPU blocks.

regardless of exact name, i can't justify having a heavy, somewhat noisy, not most efficient But still quite expensive solution for the benefit of reach. i don't usually need to reach inside, last time i opened the case was half year ago and that was to instal SSD, the big (212+ is hardly big BTW) radiator was not in the away at all, for the one time a year i can live with less then very comfortable RAM handling. what do you really need to reach on your mobo all the time?

i'd rather spend money on performance of better vid card or something. my 2 cents

[EtherealN]

I don't quite understand the "heavy" point? My old Zalman was ~700 grammes, and it was not as efficient as the H70 - but in the case of the Zalman the weight was applied to the motherboard directly, while the radiator block is secured to the steel chassis. Not that I move the machine very often, but meh.

 

And yes, this is a matter of personal preferences. Thing is of course as well that the "noise" here is really only a question of which fans you use (as always). You can use other fans if you like. The issue with the H70 is just that Corsair decided to include crap ones as far as noice levels go (in my case this is fairly irrelevant since I'm not bothered by noice - I've slept next to hydraulic machines :P ).

 

Basically there is no straight answer to what is better. All depends on the user's preferences.