Atm i have 2.4ghz q6600 Quad core G33t-AM Motherboard (came with the orginal pc) 3gb Ram (32bit windows) Asus Dirct Cu II 560ti 2x 250gb western digitals HDD Im gonna change it to a i5 2500k Corsair low profile 8gb Ram (2x4gb) Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 Motherboard OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD Asus Dirct Cu II 560ti Corsair h60 water cooling 2x 250gb western digitals HDD whats ur opinions? Its a 2-3 year pc that ive put into a new Coolermaster Haf 922 case
Just wondering, why do you have two 250gb hard drives? Are they velociraptors? I would upgrade to a 1TB 7200rpm, like a spinpoint. I suppose if you don't need the space at the moment then wait until later on as the prices at the moment are ridiculous. What do you actually do on the computer? Gaming or office work?
Looks like a good set of parts there chum, only thing I would suggest is what PSU do you have? if its a pre-built system I'm willing to bet its not amazing, but I would seriously consider upgrading to a new unit, something like a 550W/ 650W should see you well for the future from corsair/seasonic/enermax/OCZ etc edit: also remember if your running 32 bit windows you won't be able to take advantage of more than 3.5Gb of ram Total
im gonna purchase windows 7 so ill have 64bit and i changed the psu to a 500watts Corsair Cutting it close i know but it works
Any reason for the H60? Nothing against it, but you could get a decent air-cooler for less with the same performance. Also, that Pro mobo you have will support SLI. If that's something you think you'd do in the future, up the PSU to 750W to give yourself the headroom (and save yourself from having to replace the 500W unit).
Any suggestion on air coolers then? Corsair Air series A70 any good? At some point i may sli so having the extra slots just in case
No, Dark Rock Pro http://www.scan.co.uk/products/be-q...lga775-1155-1156-1366-am2-am2plus-am3-754-940 Dark Rock Advanced http://www.scan.co.uk/products/be-q...lga775-1155-1156-1366-am2-am2plus-am3-754-940 Antec KHULER 620 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/ante...ler-lga775-1155-1156-1366-am2-2plus-am3-3plus or at the cheaper end of the spectrum http://www.scan.co.uk/products/geli...-1156-1155-and-amd-754-939-940-am2-am2plus-am
The antec khuler 620 works very very well, go for a water cooler if you prefer the extra space in your case over a larger air cooler...plus i think the water cooler looks nicer and more refined.
In future I think I would be tempted by watercooling, I'm almost as wary of my 1kg heatsink deciding to fall off and smash my gfx card as I am of a leak from an H60 Plus it does tend to look a bit nicer.
