There is Sand in my bridge, new build

[N.E.A]

hey guys i am going to build a new gaming PC tomorrow or maybe the day after. I know some of you are saying how is that possible since the products are not in stock, in my country the stores and the companies that provide them with the products decided to sell the boards till the new ones come and when they do they will replace all of the sold boards. any way here is the specs :
Core i5 2400
P8P67 Pro
Cooler Master V8
CM Haf X
Adata S599 64GB SSD will it be enough for Windows 7 64-bit and MS Office ???
Samsung Spin point F1 750 GB and i will another one in raid 0 later
Corsair XMS 3 4 GB kit should i go for 8GB or will it be an over kill ?
HEC-Cougar 700 W PSU
GTX 275 i own it since 2009 and i will upgrade soon to GTX 570
the PC will be mainly used for Gaming, Studying, watching movies and that sort of thing so will the new games such as Crysis 2 run better on 8GB memory or 4GB will do just fine ?

thanks in advance.

edit : when the new boards arrive i will replace the board with P8P67 Deluxe's equivalent.

[_dangtx_]

get the 2500k for oc'ing
yes
go 8 gigs
if you have a 64 bit os then 8 gigs
or you can keep your board and not use the affected ports...:)

[frontier204]

The Spinpoint F1 is an older drive (I remember getting one over 2 years ago). You should try for a newer drive for slightly better performance if you don't already have the drive already (e.g. WD Caviar Black 64MB cache, Samsung F3 if you like the brand).

My SSD with Windows 7 and all apps except for games (so that's Adobe, OpenOffice, MS Office 2010, 2 browsers, 2 e-mail programs, Windows Live suite, Acronis, and a whole bunch of other apps with an install less than 10 MB) are taking up 28.0 GB, so if you don't have many big applications the 64 GB will be fine. I use a 128 GB SSD but I only partitioned 80GB of it (saving the other ~48ish for Linux if I ever get around to setting up a dual boot).

[JJThomp]

Personally I'd take the Hyper 212+ instead of the V8 the 212+ performs similar to the vendetta 2 and as you can see here the vendetta 2 is clearly better. CPU Cooler Benchmarks - HardwareCanucks Charts

Less expensive + better = win?
unless I'm wrong about the better part but according to HWC's charts I'm not.

[N.E.A]

Originally Posted by _dangtx_

get the 2500k for oc'ing
yes
go 8 gigs
if you have a 64 bit os then 8 gigs
or you can keep your board and not use the affected ports...:)

can not i OC with the 2400 ? i am not that interested in OCing since i fried Q6600 but i think i will OC the 2400 if that is possible to 3.6

[N.E.A]

Originally Posted by frontier204

The Spinpoint F1 is an older drive (I remember getting one over 2 years ago). You should try for a newer drive for slightly better performance if you don't already have the drive already (e.g. WD Caviar Black 64MB cache, Samsung F3 if you like the brand).

My SSD with Windows 7 and all apps except for games (so that's Adobe, OpenOffice, MS Office 2010, 2 browsers, 2 e-mail programs, Windows Live suite, Acronis, and a whole bunch of other apps with an install less than 10 MB) are taking up 28.0 GB, so if you don't have many big applications the 64 GB will be fine. I use a 128 GB SSD but I only partitioned 80GB of it (saving the other ~48ish for Linux if I ever get around to setting up a dual boot).

i think the samsung will be just fine HD754JJ , i can not go higher than that since i do not want to spend more than i want. about the performance, well WD blue HD (500 GB ) perform better than that Samsung??? and i think in a couple of weeks i will get a better drive but i need the PC now so i will get what i can and i will spend more later.

edit : about the cooler i think i will stick with the V8 for the looks :D

[sswilson]

Originally Posted by N.E.A

can not i OC with the 2400 ? i am not that interested in OCing since i fried Q6600 but i think i will OC the 2400 if that is possible to 3.6

Because everything on SB is tied to the bus (FSB in older terms ;) ), the older method of raising bus speeds doesn't offer much in the way of overclocking headroom. Typical bump on the bus seems to be 7 points max. Only the "K" series SB procs have unlocked multipliers which allows you to leave the bus as is and raise the mulitiplier to get a higher processor clock speed.

[N.E.A]

Originally Posted by sswilson

Because everything on SB is tied to the bus (FSB in older terms ;) ), the older method of raising bus speeds doesn't offer much in the way of overclocking headroom. Typical bump on the bus seems to be 7 points max. Only the "K" series SB procs have unlocked multipliers which allows you to leave the bus as is and raise the mulitiplier to get a higher processor clock speed.

so no OCing with the 2400, i can live with it till the new boards come and i think when that time comes i will be able to get i7 2600k or if not the 2500k will be good too. i used to love OCing but since i killed the Q6600 @4.4 (air Cooled) i think i will not OC that high even if i can

[_dangtx_]

you can still ok but intel says youll fry things if you push the bus.

multi's only...for 20 bucks more its a no brainer really.

[N.E.A]

Originally Posted by _dangtx_

you can still ok but intel says youll fry things if you push the bus.

multi's only...for 20 bucks more its a no brainer really.

i know but it is out of stock right now and the only unlocked CPU available is 2600K so when the new boards are out i think intel will continue shipping the CPUs as well.