If you plan on overclocking your cpu get sandybridge instead, also use the money you save on the i5 for an ssd, you will get alot more performance out of an ssd than you will get out of an i7.
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What benefit would getting a Sandy Bridge have? On Newegg, and i5 Sandy Bridge 3.4 Ghz (same clock speed as the Ivy Bridge on my wishlist) is actually more expensive. Are they more OC friendly?
Also, I was planning on getting an SSD, but later. It's not as important to me, and they're pretty expensive.
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Sandybridge is better for overcocking, ivybridge is better at stock clocks.
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if you don't plan on ever overclocking just go ivybridge
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It really depends on how much you want to push it. I'm not planning on pushing my processor too much (4.0 to 4.2) so I'm going with Ivy and a decent cpu cooler. With that same cooler however I could push a sandy farther because Ivy gets freakin hot a lot faster. But then again games don't really need a ton of processor.
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Games hardly even stress my cpu, let alone an i7, i have an i5 2500k and only oorly optimised games cause my cpu to be at even medium load.
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2 years from now my cpu will be dead and i will have got the next architecture, anyway the majority of the stress is on the graphics card.
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I lol @ your suggestions. You suggest an i7 over an i5 (which will not have any difference in his games), and then you suggest a GPU with 1GB vram instead of 2GB+ vram (which will have a much bigger difference). No more suggesting for your.
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But how much Vram does it ACTUALLY use and at what rez? Even at max settings Vram is at 6xxmb used on a 1gb card. Skyrim or Fallout NV with HD textures doesnt use all my Vram. Though I only have a 1680x1050 monitor so res will add more or less usage.
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You wont see any more noticeable performance increase from an i7 as you would from an i5, at least not enough to warrant the price. A small SSD would serve as a much better enhancer.
If you plan to OC heavily, go for sandy. My new i5 is @4ghz due to the temps, though its at 70C so I could go higher if I wanted.
70c using intel burn test*
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Click able rig
Is what I went with, though I RMA'ed the ram because one of the sticks was bad.
Got these instead.
Also got 5 off on the new ram which was nice.
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Unless your saving cash I agree about the z77 thing, but a lot of z67 boards cost the same as their z77 versions. As for PCI Express 3.0 it can be completely ignored. As of now and for a while the difference between PCI Express 3.0 and 2.0 is about 1 frame in a fully maxed game. No one will notice, plus PCIE 3.0 slots take 2.0 cards and visa versa, and a Sandy Processor in a PCIE 3.0 board just turns them into PCIE 2.0, so it can be ignored for now.
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I guess in that case its more for Upgrading in the future.
If you think by the time you want to upgrade anything, that you will just update it all, then I guess it really isn't an issue.
I upgrade single things at a time myself normally, so I got a Z77 and Ivy Bridge, both working great. I haven't even got into overclocking yet myself, but am planing on it.
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i5-2500K is sandy bridge and a bit better for overclocking than the ivy bridge counterpart.
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I'm actually taking a break from building my new rig right now! Bought the same processor, saw that ASRock too its a great deal. Any particular reason you went with the EVGA version of the 670, a lot of people seem to love the OC'd FTW though I went with a non-reference version that would work with my case better which is the same price as the one you picked but its not a stock version. Other than that I'm throwing a small SSD in mine to work as an OS boot drive and a cpu cooler to let me push that i5-3570K to 4.0 comfortably but also for aesthetics.
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Just make sure that ram will fit in with a CPU heatsink. I'm not sure how close the ram slots are, but the ram you picked would have been too tall for my motherboard + Hyper 212 heatsink. I went with this ram instead: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682023146
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oops i deleted a number off the link when trying to make it clickable.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231461
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