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- Mar 31, 2010
Hi guys, I'm looking at getting a new computer and I've decided that I'm going i7 930 and plan to over-clock it to hopefully 4Ghz. I'm not prepared to splurge top dollar for a top shelf motherboard but the fact that I'm preparing to over-clock it, means that I'm obviously probably in need of something a bit more advanced than the cheapies. Don't know whether I care what brand to get. Asus/Gigabyte? Don't know if one is better than the other? I think EVGA are a bit more expensive?
But essentially I want a balanced system (performance and price wise) so yer hope that was descriptive enough. Might as well mention the other stuff I'm planning on getting... don't think I'll get more than 6 gigs of ram (at least for now). Maybe get water cooling for the CPU. Just one GPU (prob 275 or 285 gtx... maaaaybe 295 (if I find one second hand for a price I like). But I definitely prefer a roomy motherboard so there's no issues with ram not fitting alongside the CPU if I don't go water cooling way and get a massive after-market thermal fan thingy. Memory wise I think I'm pretty set on corsair so that means that if I go for more than 6 gigs after a while (I think there is a good possibility of this) then I imagine I'll be installing those corsair fans which is why I mentioned the roomy part.
But essentially I want a balanced system (performance and price wise) so yer hope that was descriptive enough. Might as well mention the other stuff I'm planning on getting... don't think I'll get more than 6 gigs of ram (at least for now). Maybe get water cooling for the CPU. Just one GPU (prob 275 or 285 gtx... maaaaybe 295 (if I find one second hand for a price I like). But I definitely prefer a roomy motherboard so there's no issues with ram not fitting alongside the CPU if I don't go water cooling way and get a massive after-market thermal fan thingy. Memory wise I think I'm pretty set on corsair so that means that if I go for more than 6 gigs after a while (I think there is a good possibility of this) then I imagine I'll be installing those corsair fans which is why I mentioned the roomy part.