Sup guys, I'm going to be upgrading my current pc: Asus P5K - Q6600 - 4GB G.Skill ram, AMD Radeon 4860 to: (don't mind the website, it's in Dutch - it should be clear what items they are) Mobo: http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/ASUS/SABERTOOTH_P67_-=Rev.3.0=-/826332/? Ram: http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/Corsair/16_GB_DDR3-1600_Quad-Kit/967650/? CPU: http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/Intel(R)/Core(TM)_i7-2600/736376/? or CPU: http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/Intel(R)/Core(TM)_i5-2500K/736394/? Graphics card: http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/SAPPHIRE/HD_7970_(21197-00-40G)/971416/? Getting a 750W PSU, 1 SSD for my OS and 1TB WD for storage. I am planning to make a build log and I want my hardware to have a somewhat brownish theme to it. I am wondering if the mobo is compatible with the other hardware listed above. I've checked most of the info about the hardware, and everything seems to be okay. One more question, is the I7 worth it over the I5. Thanks for the help, going to order my hardware soon so just wanted to double-check.
I might be wrong (someone please clear up if i am xD) the motherboard and ram you have chosen will work yes but not as best as they can, you have there a dual channel motherboard and quad channel ram. You might want to check out the dual channel kit of the memory you have chosen as itll be alot more stable and perform better than the quad channel kit. As for the processor, stick with the i5 unless your video encoding or photoshopping, games dont support hyperthreading while video and photo editing software do. Youll save a bit of money too Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
The ram isn't Quad or Dual Channel, It's 4 sticks that should match in a Dual or Quad channel motherboard. So if you can find cheaper Dual Channel ram then go for it, or you could get a Z77 board which does support Quad channel, but this would be overkill, In fact uless you are going to be doing Video editing or 3D rendering, 16GB is probably a bit much and won't get used.
Cheers for the fast replies, I appreciate your input. I just read a bit more about the RAM and like Deders said, it's not quad or dual channel, it's 4 sticks of the same product line. (batch). Going to the shop later this week and I'll ask them if its worth getting the Quad-kit or 2x http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/Corsair/8_GB_DDR3-1600_Kit/967633/? It has the same information as the Quad-kit, and it'll be 10€ cheaper if I go for the quad kit, so I'll most likely go for that. But I'll just double-check once I'm at the shop. I do plan on some video editing and I'll be using the PC for multiple purposes, so I'll most likely go for the 16GB. It won't hurt anyway, that's for sure. If that's the case I'll be getting the quad-kit then
