MSI Z170M Mortar Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Intel Core i5-6600K Corsair DDR4 2800MHz 16GB How does the above rate? I appreciate I could probably get cheaper RAM but I do like my bling. It looks like my budget will need to be around £500 and I am not sure I could go X99 even though it has been pointed out here that that chipset would probably be better. It will mainly be a gaming machine and I still have to decide on a case as I have had enough of the Parvum.
You probably won't notice any difference in your gaming at all if that's all your upgrading. 2500k still isn't a bottleneck as far as I've read on the subject. Better off saving your money and getting another 8 gig's of DDR3, and/or getting another 980.
That RAM price can't be right, surely? £163 for 16GB of DDR4 seems bonkers given you could get slightly less blinging DDR4 for just over half that price. As Thom says, you'll probably not see a massive boost to upgrading from your 2500K to Skylake, but it's your money to spend at the end of the day
Not necessarily looking for a massive boost with this new build but I have had the 2500K for a while and the mobo is showing it's age. It needs a restart before it will connect to the interwebnet. No idea why this is as all drivers are and have been installed after every Windows reinstall. And as I said I do like my bling hence the rather pricey RAM.
Well, as I say it's your cash, so buy whatever you like! In any event, I'd go for a 2x8GB kit rather than a 4x4GB purely to give some future upgrade headroom. Skylake's happy with dual-channel so there's no need to go quad.
Good tip on the ram found it for quite a bit less. http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/domina...ram-2400mhz-c14-memory-kit-cmd16gx4m2a2400c14
I'm running the 6700k on a Mortar Z170 and seems ok apart from the loss of Ethernet for 3 days for no apparent reason. Have had it o/c to 4.4 with no increase in temps- around the 35 deg mark on my watercooled loop along with a GTX980 as well at stock
Yeah, that's quite a nice saving there! Money to go towards a new case? Any thoughts as to what you might want?
Windowed, no point in having bling if I cannot see it and certainly not black. I am currently looking at: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/raijintek-styx-windowed-silver-micro-atx-case-ca-023-rt.html https://www.overclockers.co.uk/anidees-ai-07mww-micro-atx-cube-case-white-window-ca-031-ad.html https://www.overclockers.co.uk/bitf...con-programmable-display-white-ca-208-bx.html https://www.overclockers.co.uk/bitfenix-pandora-core-micro-atx-case-silver-windowed-ca-200-bx.html Though not sure of the last two. Still looking for others.
Hate big cases. Had one of these many moons ago and I realized I was getting old when I had to fit casters to it just to move it. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cases/2010/08/12/silverstone-ft02r-w-review/1
I've got my eye on the Styx (probably in blue) - it's gorgeous. I'd really like a Metis but it's just too limited in terms of the size of GPU it can accomodate.
There was a guy on here who bought one and thought it was actually broken. So he ordered another one and it was just as bad. I know from experience that Bitfenix's cases are very hit and miss. Whilst the colossus I had was fine, if a little plastic-y the Survivors were both awful. Very thin inner chassis that usually arrived warped so nothing lined up or fitted properly.
