[augie]

LOL ya, just spent $600 on this lot!

MSI P67A-C43 P67 ATX LGA1155 DDR3 1PCI-E16 3PCI-E1 3PCI SATA3 USB3.0 Motherboard
57513 1 $139.85 $139.85
Intel Core i7 2600K Quad Core Unlocked Hyperthreading Processor LGA1155 3.4GHZ Sandy Bridge 8MB
57960 1 $343.28 $343.28
Mushkin Enhanced Silverline Stiletto 8GB 2X4GB PC3-10666 DDR3-1333 9-9-9-24 Dual Channel Memory Kit
55544 1 $64.99 $64.99

d*mn, a %33 increase in performance over the i7 930! The 2600K costs about as much as the i7 930 did/does. I never incrementally upgrade so this will be a good replacement for my Q6600 machine.

BTW bah to Intel for forcing new sockets on us!

[Grav!ty]

ery nice! The LGA1155 and the DDR 3 RAM should keep you ahead of the hardware game for quite some time

[kanaloa]

Makes my computer feel slow

[augie]

Makes my computer feel slow

Nah John, your machine is just fine. there's not many programs that can use all that power yet. All I do is fold. I'm a simple man.

[c0ldfyr3]

ROFLMAO!!! i just purchased that some combo from newegg lastnight after i gave thomas52 some help. i should get my parts around the 19th.

[augie]

ery nice! The LGA1155 and the DDR 3 RAM should keep you ahead of the hardware game for quite some time

Hehehe, I doubt it but I'm pretty sure that when the 2011 socket comes online, I'll be drooling for that too but I have a budget. Man the hexa-core 980X's for 1366 socket are still $1K! I think the 2011 socket will be only for very deep pockets. There's no room for another solution.

[yeshuas]

Hey Algis, what happened to your Q6600, did it quit on you?

Your new system sounds great by the way, I hope to build myself a new one in a couple months

[augie]

ROFLMAO!!! i just purchased that some combo from newegg lastnight after i gave thomas52 some help. i should get my parts around the 19th.

Cool man, we can compare machines, are you going stock HS/F? I should have mine by mid next week, around the 27th.

[augie]

Hey Algis, what happened to your Q6600, did it quit on you?

Your new system sounds great by the way, I hope to build myself a new one in a couple months

It's still chugging along nicely after a rather large upgrade last summer, it needed a new HS/F and PSU at the same time, then in the fall my 9800GT GPU died so I replaced it with a GTX460.

When I started checking the 2600K out, I knew almost right away that the Q6600's days were numbered. It has served me well.

So this is what the new machine will consist of:

Intel 2600K CPU
MSI P67A-C43 P67 ATX LGA1155 DDR3 1PCI-E16
8GB Mushkin RAM
Corsair Hyper 212+ HS/F
Corsair CX600 PSU
eVGA 9800GT, GTX460 GPU's