New system plox

Pnut · Post by **Pnut** » February 14th, 2011, 23:48

As a few of you know, I'm in pretty bad need of a new system, current specs are:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
2048MB RAM DDR2
Asus P5B mobo
Graphics card
Sound card
1 Tb F1 HDD
1 Tb F3 HDD
Corsair 620w PSU

I'm Looking at spending about £600-700, I think all I need really is new motherbored, processor and RAM. Suggestions plox?

Post by **deject** » February 14th, 2011, 23:53

I'd say wait for Sandy Bridge CPU/mobos to come back on the market. Outside of the CPU/Mobo/RAM you can get away with your current GPU for a lot of stuff, and it looks like you have plenty of hard drive space. I'd say wait for a good motherboard and get a Core i5-2500k or an i7-2600k, and get 8GB of good DDR3.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » February 14th, 2011, 23:57

deject wrote:I'd say wait for Sandy Bridge CPU/mobos to come back on the market. Outside of the CPU/Mobo/RAM you can get away with your current GPU for a lot of stuff, and it looks like you have plenty of hard drive space. I'd say wait for a good motherboard and get a Core i5-2500k or an i7-2600k, and get 8GB of good DDR3.

This.

Pnut · Post by **Pnut** » February 15th, 2011, 0:07

You mean This one?

Post by **deject** » February 15th, 2011, 0:14

Pnut wrote:You mean This one?

Yeah, they're ridiculously for the price, beating the $1000 hex core last gen Core i7's in everything but the most multi-threaded situations.

There was a problem with the chipsets for the Sandy Bridge mobos, but Intel has fixed that and they're working on getting them back on sale ASAP. Hopefully they'll be for sale in volume before March.

Pnut · Post by **Pnut** » February 15th, 2011, 19:08

This looks fairly new, does anyone know if its one of then ones effected by the chipset problems?

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » February 15th, 2011, 19:41

There aren't any fixed motherboards out yet are there? Either way, Scan still has their Sandybridge notice on this one. If you really want to buy now, check for places that have a special sandybridge-related swap-out guarantee.

Pnut · Post by **Pnut** » February 15th, 2011, 19:46

The place I'll be getting it from has that in place. From what I've read the problem is with the 3Gbps SATA connections, so just using the 6Gbps connections should be ok. Anyone know if thats true? And shit my F1 uses 3Gbps

Post by **deject** » February 15th, 2011, 20:14

Pnut wrote:The place I'll be getting it from has that in place. From what I've read the problem is with the 3Gbps SATA connections, so just using the 6Gbps connections should be ok. Anyone know if thats true? And shit my F1 uses 3Gbps

You can totally plug a 3Gpbs drive into a 6Gbps port, it will just work at 3Gbps. Like PCI-Express, it's 100% backwards compatible. It's just the four 3Gbps ports that have the problem. If you only have two SATA devices then you're totally not going to be affected by the problem at all.

Even so, the projected failure rate is 5-15% over three years so it's pretty unlikely that you'd get a bad one anyways.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » February 15th, 2011, 21:27

Even then I think the speed decrease isn't terrible.

On the other hand, if you can wait, do. First Generation Rule still applies.

Post by **deject** » February 15th, 2011, 21:31

Yeah I'd wait for the fixed mobos to come out, since being limited to just 2 SATA ports would just be no good.