So Iam finally going to upgrade from my 4 year old PC and this seemed like a good place to get a second opinion.
Budget: ~1000 USD. (PSU, Case, HDD, SSD excluded)
Im not really playing that many demanding games but I would like to be able to play BF3 at high settings with 50+fps and have some possibility of upgrading my system in the future.
So I was thinking of keeping my old Case, PSU(600W) and HDD and getting the following components:
I was thinking of overclocking the CPU to 4,5GHz, I know its an Ivy Bridge but do you think I will be able to reach 4,5GHz with the NH-U12P and not get to high temperatures?
Im also looking at getting the Crucial 128GB m4 2.5-inch SSD next month as a boot drive.
sorry I usaully do but something came up as soon as I found the parts, and in my haste I paste the wrong CPU/heatsink link, the mobo was fine, I just have personal preferance and I've heard good things with gigabyte and ivy OC it also has 2 more USB 3.0 ports and the 2 2.0 ports double as esata, mine also has a Msata port on it, althought the asus one does look cool, the heatsink is one of the best for air, just ask vortex88, the ram is hella faster, 2133 with slightly higher cas than yours, and the gpu is MUCH stronger
I don't understand...You have $1000 to spend and that's all you're getting? You should be able to get a much better video card. This is what I would get:
You can overclock the 2500K to be stronger than the i5 you posted. The motherboard is in the same series; it just has more features, and it's probably better for overclocking too. The ram is the same frequency, but it has lower latency which will allow it to perform better. The video card is obviously vastly superior. I'm not sure how well that Noctua heatsink performs, but I know the V6 GT is within a few degrees of the Noctua NH-D14.