New gaming PC, £1000 budget, need help

[Goku]

Retail edge right? I think that starts in the fall to winter if I'm not mistaken. Is your athlon giving you issues and what is your VGA?

[Predator21]

Ha. The H60 is now out of stock. Again, it wasn't when I purchased it..

Doesn't seem like they held onto one for me either as I got the "item to follow" email, will be having a word tomorrow!

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...odid=HS-006-CS

Tempted to just cancel the order and go elsewhere.. :-|

[Goku]

Predator. What exactly is the hold up on the order now? IB?

If you want to stick with something like the H60 check out the Antec Kuhler 620. If you just want to stick with air go with this.

[Vancha]

Predator, are you using Googles "shopping" section? Most vendors you'll probably want to avoid, but it also lists the good ones too. I can make a list of the "good" ones, if you like.

Not that there's anything wrong with Overclockers (although now I'm starting to wonder), but for some things you could probably be getting better prices elsewhere.

[Goku]

Vancha could you do that? I like to know a few more UK/Euro shops to know about.

[Really]

Yeah OcUK seem to be a bit crap when things go out of stock, they didn't notify me or hold any of the things that were in stock for me either :/

Some other good UK shops (from experience) are Dabs.com, ebuyer.com, scan.co.uk, aria.co.uk, and sometimes amazon have things cheaper. Lots of shopping around!

[Vancha]

I certainly can't vouch for all of these being wonderful, they're listed somewhat in order of prominence/relevance, but no doubt some of these just flew under my radar. I'm fairly confident all of these are "well intentioned" though.

Scan
CCL
Aria
Dabs
Micro Direct
Amazon
ebuyer
memoryc (Ram/Storage focused)
Quiet PC (low noise focused)
novatech
Overclock (not the same as Overclockers)
YoYo Tech
saverstore
SpecialTech
europc
LambdaTek
Overstock
PIXmania
MISCO
more computers
tekheads
Kikatek
Play
box
BT Shop
Trust Hardware
Oyyy
cbccomputers

[Predator21]

The holdup has been down to overclockers, I'll order something (in stock) then on delivery day they'll say its out of stock.

Today I swapped the CPU cooler to https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...-009-CS&tool=3

And the Graphics card to
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...odid=GX-092-GI

It should be arriving tomorrow now, at last.

I decided not to wait for IB

[Goku]

Way overkill on the H100, buts its beastly. Thankfully you have one of the few cases that supports it.

@ Vancha thanks for the links

[Predator21]

The OC Genie II doesn't seem to be changing anything, my CPU is still runnnig at 3.3Ghz, anyone got experience with this? It should be really easy, just click of a button...

[Stew]

Graphics Card : Gtx 560 Ti or GTX 570
CPU : 15-2500 k
Motherboard : asus P8p67 Evo
Solid State HD for speed
Big HDD for storage, like 1TB
PSU : any good psu over 700 watts
CPU cooler : U have a lots of options but many cpu collers have enough power for a 4.5 to 4.8 ghz overclock
PC Case : Coller master HAF 922
RAM : Gskill snipers or ripjaws ddr3 1600

Dont buy a to expensive MB its a lost of money also try to find thing like PSU on sale but the HAF coller master case series are the best (( stock )) tower ever made for gaming at a very cheap price around 80 to 100 us $ just make sure ur MB suport SLI and try to find one at 180 US $ and less

focus on the most important i mean Memory GPU CPU and Colling the HAF is a very cool tower with 220 mm very quiet fans and u can also had other fans at 10 $ each max

[Vancha]

[Predator21]

I think its the RAM limiting my overclock?

[Goku]

Have you read up on any guides for overclocking SB? RAM has nothing to do with it, since its a unlocked multiplier processor. I hope you are not trying to overclock via the old bus method. That doesn't work anymore.

[Predator21]

Originally Posted by Goku

Have you read up on any guides for overclocking SB? RAM has nothing to do with it, since its a unlocked multiplier processor. I hope you are not trying to overclock via the old bus method. That doesn't work anymore.

I've post on the MSI forums asking for help, I've posted some screenies on there from CPU-Z:
http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=158617.0

I'm using this built in feature called OC Genie II, it's a unique MSI feature where it automatically sets you up optimally to the highest overclock it thinks possible.