Sandy Bridge System! compatibility help please. Pre Purchase

[richie1984]

hi,
firstly i would like to thank everyone for there speedy reply,
i am planing to purchase this rig within the hour depending on responses.
this is my first post so be fair, this will be my third pc in 5 years.


CASE; Thermaltake Overseer Full Tower with HDD Docking Station
CPU; Intel Core i7 2600K - 3.40GHz - Quad Core - Socket LGA1155 - 95W TDP
SSD; OCZ Vertex 3 2.5" Solid State Drive - 120GB - SATA3 - Read 550MB/s & Write 500MB/s
MOBO; Gigabyte G1.Sniper 2 Motherboard - Intel Socket LGA1155 - Intel Z68 Chipset
PSU; Cooler Master Silent Pro 80+ Gold 1200W Power Supply
RAM; G.Skill Ripjaws-X 8GB Dual Channel Memory Kit
GRAPHICS; Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 Super Overclock Video Card - GDDR5 1536MB 384Bit
DVD; Lite-On IHAS124 Internal SATA 24x Super-Multi DVD Rewriter

i also would like some help with choosing a suited cooling system water preferred because i would like to OC this..

thanks again

regards

 

[ulysses35]

Hi and welcome to the THG forums.

Firstly the choice of components is good and should all work together very well.

Next up is the cooling, are you sure you want to go down the water cooling route ? the Sanybridge chips overclock very well on air - albeit with a third party cooler rather than the HSF that comes with the CPU.

Water has some good advantages, but if you havent tried ity before I would suggest trying a decent HSF first and see how you get on with that. Even the most experienced PC builder can and does have leaks using water....

 

[Zenthar]

Everything is compatible and of good quality and, as ulysses35 said, you can OC SandyBridge CPU quite a lot on good air cooling.

BTW, what will you build be used for (gaming I guess, but what resolution)? I'm asking because your parts, although good, might not be the best cost-effective choices; the game-performance difference between an i5-2500K and an i7-2600K for example, is probably 1-2FPS for 100$ and having two GTX 560 Ti, might yield better performance than a single GTX 580 for less $$$. Things like that you might want to consider.

Oh and given the amount of money you seem to want to invest in your machine (unless you just picked the priciest items in each category assuming it was "the best"), maybe you should wait for IvyBridge...

 

[richie1984]

Awesome thanks! i should have this rig by friday.

so these are the options this company is giving me

Cooler Master V8 Cooler - CPU Socket Intel Socket Support LGA 1366 / 1156 / 1155

and;

Noctua NH-C14 CPU Cooler - 140mm Fan - 1200RPM - Intel LGA1366, LGA1156, LGA1155, LGA775 & AMD AM2, AM2+, AM3

and;

Thermaltake FRIO OCK CPU Cooler - Designed for Overclocker King - 6 Heat pipes - 2 x 130mm Fans - Support Intel & AMD CPU

i thought the cool master purely on looks lol.. but, looks wont pay the bills.

 

[richie1984]

hi zenthar,
it is purely for games, i actually thought i was getting it reasonably cheap,
the reason i didnt go two cards (correct me if im wrong) is because i thought that it restricts them both to 8x, 8x in sli rather than just one as 16x?
it felt pointless thats all?

but again its just what i read i could have mixed a few things up dislexic half the time.