I currently have an ASUS P5N32e-SLI PLUS motherboard sporting a E6750 processor and 4GB of OCZ DDR2-800 RAM.
Looking to upgrade my system. I have picked up a new HAF932 case with a Xigmatek Dark Knight cooler, an MSI N250GTS 1GB video card, and a new power supply.
Now, I need to figure out a good motherboard\cpu combination. This rig is for flight simulator X, so processor speed is one of the most important things for this simulation.
I would like to approach 4Ghz on air, which I have been reading an I7-920 can do.
Here is what I am looking at:
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
OCZ Gold 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Low Voltage Desktop Memory Model OCZ3G2000LV6GK
Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601920
Would this be a good setup?
For the Gigabyte board, is there a model less than that one that would still allow the overclock but save me a few $$$?
Is there a better motherboard out there? What do you guys recommend? I am not an accomplished overclocker. I can set the ram timings and voltage and FSB, but beyond that I pretty much get lost.
Any help you can provide on my purchase would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Looking to upgrade my system. I have picked up a new HAF932 case with a Xigmatek Dark Knight cooler, an MSI N250GTS 1GB video card, and a new power supply.
Now, I need to figure out a good motherboard\cpu combination. This rig is for flight simulator X, so processor speed is one of the most important things for this simulation.
I would like to approach 4Ghz on air, which I have been reading an I7-920 can do.
Here is what I am looking at:
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
OCZ Gold 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Low Voltage Desktop Memory Model OCZ3G2000LV6GK
Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601920
Would this be a good setup?
For the Gigabyte board, is there a model less than that one that would still allow the overclock but save me a few $$$?
Is there a better motherboard out there? What do you guys recommend? I am not an accomplished overclocker. I can set the ram timings and voltage and FSB, but beyond that I pretty much get lost.
Any help you can provide on my purchase would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!