Having a rebuild with Sandybridge

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Adam@LakeWood

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I'm currently running a Q9450 on a Asus Striker extreme with 4GB XMS2 and an 8800GTS 512.

I'm currently looking at updating the CPU, RAM, Motherboard and GPU. I have been looking at this set for now:

Intel 2600k

Asus P8P67 pro

12Gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz

Nvidia GTX 580

And cool it using a H50?
 
What are you going to be doing with this machine? IMO, 12gb is overkill just for gaming.

Maybe you could downgrade to 8gb and put the savings toward an SSD. That will really speed things up.
 
You know it does not support Tri-Channel RAM? Just dual so not sure why you picked 123GB? I would recommend 8GB or 16GB.
 
Why the H50? It's about as effective as a decent air cooler, but a lot more expensive.

Assuming this is a gaming rig, you probably don't need more than 4GB of RAM, though 8GB is fairly economical nowadays.

2600K and P8P67 Pro is a good combo.
 
^ The difference there is at least $100...for something almost nobody would use...
 
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Sorry for the late replies, This system will be used for general use, gaming and some heavy publishing/graphic work. Its not being used as a main work station its my personal computer but I will often bring work onto it out of hours to proof so will use Adobe CS5 Master suite heavily and require 12GB+ RAM.

I have been thinking about SSD and would it be sensible to use a 128GB SSD as a OS and for programs and run two 1TB HDD in RAID0 as storage? our systems are backup every night and all data is mirrored on an in-house server so the risks of RAID0 are a worry.

Also does anyone know when Intel will have the whole issue with the P67 chipset sorted?
 
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