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[StarsMine]

I dont think its worth it to go with the Sb-E platform. Yes its more up gradable, but by the time your willing to drop 500 dollars on a CPU haswell or broadwell would probably be out and it would be cheaper and a better upgrade to get a either of those.

[Steamer]

ASRock... Asus's sold out cheapy brand. I remember those boards. I owned one of the dual chipset ones when the PCI-E was just coming into play. Think they sold that sub.

Spend the extra 350 on Zero's build. Don't skimp. Should last you another year or two. Learn to OC a bit and run a small step on the unlocked Turbo mult with its stock cooler (works fine if you have a good case and airflow). OC <> Thermal relativity is ass on the IB's. Performance is a mediocre gain except Video Encoding on this gen. Me personally, I would hold out, save a little bit more cash, and go nextgen.

I'm still running a Q6600 @ 3.2 on its stock cooler in the Antec P-182 case.... LULZ.

[Rambo :D]

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[StarsMine]

ASRock... Asus's sold out cheapy brand. I remember those boards. I owned one of the dual chipset ones when the PCI-E was just coming into play. Think they sold that sub.

Spend the extra 350 on Zero's build. Don't skimp. Should last you another year or two. Learn to OC a bit and run a small step on the unlocked Turbo mult with its stock cooler (works fine if you have a good case and airflow). OC <> Thermal relativity is ass on the IB's. Performance is a mediocre gain except Video Encoding on this gen. Me personally, I would hold out, save a little bit more cash, and go nextgen.

I'm still running a Q6600 @ 3.2 on its stock cooler in the Antec P-182 case.... LULZ.

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Zeros build does not OC.
Asrock split from asus, while under asus, yes it was their budget board brand(that does not mean bad quality), but since the split they have become one of the best mobo makers in the market. By one of the best they are insanely well built. though I must admit I still find it odd seeing what used to be a budget brand kick so much ass.

IB produces less heat. However it transfers less of it to the heat sink since they are using thermal paste between the heat spreader and chip when it used to be soldered.
Doesnt make that much of a difference, IB can get up to 90 degrees and not give a shit. Intel guaranties their CPUs to run at maximum temperature for 3 years, straight. Meaning nearly all chips last longer.
But heres the thing, it gets the same clocks as SB and has slightly higher IPC while using less power. I dont know what you were expecting with performance when all it was supposed to be was a die shrink, it ended up being more then that.

I dont think you need to wait for next gen at all.


@rambo, caviar blue? And cyber, like I are part of MSDNAA we dont need to buy windows.

[Steamer]

I loved that ASRock board. It is still actually fully working perfectly fine in my buddies old ass MC. Along with all the G-Skill ram I bought years ago for it. Actually, the entire system is still working with a new PSU. E6700, 10-10-10-15 GSkill running 8-8-8-10 stock sticks no cooling @1066. 8800 GTS. It's amazing me a bit it is still actually working... lol

[ZERO]

Still have yet to see a build that will have better FPS than what I posted and that is assuming the other builds overclock... the other build on this page is only giving him a 670 vs a 680 even with all the cpu talk it will be the GPU that will have the largest fps effect.

Lets make this part easy: Cyber will you actually OC your CPU to the limit and keep it that way if you can? Are you going to buy a better cooler to do this?

I think any builds claming they are for OC should also budget in the needed cooling equipment or the OC factor of them should be ignored.

[StarsMine]

a 7870 crossfire fits in my budget. That gives better frames then a 680. Its not that the 680 isnt good, just the extra frames you get out of it is not worth 100 dollars more then the evga ftw edition, which really closes the gap between the two to a rather small amount.

I did put cooling in my builds... Noctua d14, and I showed him a CM 212 evo sometime, rambo put cooling in his build to. And you can push SB to 3.8mhz on the stock cooler no problem. Why does he need to OC his computer to the limit?
Mine is at 4.5ghz, with a noctua d14, no where close to my CPUs limit.