About to Buy The Following:

[Kydoes]

[URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.674899"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.674899

[/URL][URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226179"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226179

[/URL][URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136794"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136794

[/URL]Seems like a fair deal. I've heard great things about the i5k's (2nd gen). I know there may be RAM that's a bit cheaper, but Mushkin makes some good shit and it's got low timings.

Still would appreciate some recommendations if necessary.

[Reapaninja]

[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185[/url] cheaper, more space, similar if not faster speeds
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104266[/url] unless you're doing specific tasks like synthetic benchmarks, you'll notice little to no difference between this and the redline
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.717777[/url] use the savings from that to get a better mobo

[editline]17th August 2011[/editline]

make sure you get an aftermarket heatsink and overclock, a hyper 212+ would be fine for a 2500k

[Kydoes]

[QUOTE=reapaninja;31774565][url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185[/url] cheaper, more space, similar if not faster speeds
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104266[/url] unless you're doing specific tasks like synthetic benchmarks, you'll notice little to no difference between this and the redline
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.717777[/url] use the savings from that to get a better mobo

[editline]17th August 2011[/editline]

make sure you get an aftermarket heatsink and overclock, a hyper 212+ would be fine for a 2500k[/QUOTE]

Well the HDD you suggested is SATA II not III so I don't think it would be as fast unless I'm missing something here... But other than that thank you for the suggestions. I may do a little more research into other Z68 MBs before I buy.

[Reapaninja]

just because SATA III [I]can[/I] move 6 gigabits per second doesn't mean the HDD will physically read data anywhere near that fast
only the latest generation of SSDs saturate the limits of SATA II, sticking SATA III on a mechanical hard drive is just for marketing bullshit

[editline]17th August 2011[/editline]

think of them as pipes
SATA III is a wider pipe so more water [I]can[/I] be moved through it at once, however that doesn't mean that much water [I]will[/I] be moved through it

[Prometh3us]

Yeah, my Samsung F3 3gbs beats my friends WD Caviar black 6gbs in read/write speeds

[Kydoes]

I may go with the SATA 2 instead then. I didn't know the drives were the same speeds. Damn companies

[Prometh3us]

[QUOTE=Kydoes;31775315]I may go with the SATA 2 instead then. I didn't know the drives were the same speeds. Damn companies[/QUOTE]Yeah, and faster sometimes. It's just a gimmick that people believe.

Fucker is stubborn to, thinks his is still faster regardless. But he mounts his rear fan as an intake so he really is a CIP.

[Kydoes]

[QUOTE=ClaBrendon;31775346]Fucker is stubborn to, thinks his is still faster regardless. But he mounts his rear fan as an intake so he really is a CIP.[/QUOTE]

What?

[Prometh3us]

[QUOTE=Kydoes;31775363]What?[/QUOTE]My friend. Stubborn computer illiterate. Makes me want to pull my hair out

[ManningQB18]

CIP=Computer illiterate person

[Kydoes]

might go with this MB instead:

[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128506[/url]

Will cost about $20 more than my original package but I've heard worse things about MSI's UEFI.

And the ASUS posted above only supports x8/x8 SLI (If I were to want it)

[Phrozen99]

[QUOTE=Kydoes;31775724]might go with this MB instead:

[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128506[/url]

Will cost about $20 more than my original package but I've heard worse things about MSI's UEFI.

And the ASUS posted above only supports x8/x8 SLI (If I were to want it)[/QUOTE]

You won't notice the difference in the x8 x8.

[Reapaninja]

[QUOTE=Kydoes;31775724]might go with this MB instead:

[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128506[/url]

Will cost about $20 more than my original package but I've heard worse things about MSI's UEFI.

And the ASUS posted above only supports x8/x8 SLI (If I were to want it)[/QUOTE]

no P67 or Z68 mobo supports over 8x/8x without using extras like NF200
where that gigabyte board says 16x/8x it means 16x with one slot in use and 8x/8x when both are

it doesn't matter anyway because no current card saturates the bandwidth of PCI-E 2.0 8x (short of possibly the 590/6990, though I've yet to see benchmarks to check for sure)
it would matter if it were 16x/4x because in testing with a 480 about 10% of performance was lost but with 8x the results were within realistic fluctuation, if there was a difference it was minimal

that gigabyte board has no UEFI at all, while asus has pretty much the best UEFI right now

[Kydoes]

So I've settled on:

[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072[/url]

[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128492[/url]

[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226179[/url]

[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185[/url]

Only recommend different parts if you know of some actual con to one of these please.

[Reapaninja]

I've already explained you don't need to pay that much for RAM unless you know 100% you'll benefit enough from it to be worth the cost, otherwise you're just wasting money
and if you wanted UEFI then get the P8Z68/2500k combo