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Yes, I am saying goodbye to my Q6600 Go Stepping and Asus P5K-e wifi. It has been many, many years of happy computing and overclocking. I cannot wait for Haswell, and CPU prices never seem to drop radically anyway.

Ordered:
Intel i5 3570k 3rd gen Ivy cpu = £162.74 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-Generatio ... 073&sr=1-1
Asus P8Z77-V LK Motherboard with crossfire and lucid virtu MVP, Sata 3 and USB 3 = £93.97 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-P8Z77-V-LK ... 026&sr=1-1
Arctic Cooling Freezer i30 CPU Cooler = £28.84 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arctic-Cooling- ... 102&sr=1-1
Corsair CML8GX3M2A1600C9 LP Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 Memory Module Kit = £33.95 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CML8GX3 ... 129&sr=1-3

Total £319 for new system.

Should be a decent upgrade, and plan on 4.6GHz overclock on arrival. Corsair RAM is Low Profile with normal heat-spreaders due to huge air cooler. Won't be adversely affected by O/Clock.

Later this year, a new GPU to take advantage of the PCi-e 3 slots if I don't go crossfire with current card +1.

Should get it by the 2nd of January.

ok but have u bought a new keyboard yet

Whoops

Damn your common sense attitude Nemes1s

I originally planned on just upgrading the RAM on the current system, as only running 4gig. By the time you pay DDR2 prices, you are looking just under £100 for 8gigs. I couldn't justify that amount on dragging out old tech, so saw the extra £200 for a whole new system as an investment.

nice stuff u have there, do u plan to get a SSD harddrive? this will boost your performance a big step forward

Nice one mate SSD is a must have mate 120quid for 240gb my 120gb made all the diff to my set up but now its full need to upgrade again lol

SSD will be 2nd on the "what I need to get next' list, after the keyboard. I'll then get the kids some shoes, but the snow means it is nice and soft under foot for now

Sounds like the upgrade I have been looking at with the 3570K CPU.
I am not sure if I will wait till summer though for an upgrade, because I will go big on RAM's so I can run my virtual machines. I would love to grab a ssd, however my current normal SATA drive with 300GB is getting very full with VM's and Origin/Steam folder of like 30 GB.Right now over 200 or so GB SSD's are pretty expensive still.

Put only your OS on the SSD and keep your hardrive to put all you program, Origin and Steam files.
Works like a charm

gav what l77t graphics card are you running? the rest of it just has to keep up.

Nothing very potent I'm afraid Bambam. An ATi HD 6970 1mb card. Still runs everything sweetly though for now. As I mentioned in my initial post, this will be up for review later this year if need be.

hey 6970 is pretty good - you're not running particularly hi-res are you.

1920x1080 on a 24" monitor only, so more than adequate GPU in those circumstances. No multiple screen layout like your own lol.

still on the q6600 and asus p5k wifi myself not problems dont need to upgrade yeat as burning the hell out of it on water but my 4890 gpu is a little old,
looking at the crysis 3 i need a dx 11 card, is that 6970 a dx 11??

It is indeed. The Q6600 still does all you will ever need, and thats coming from someone after an upgrade.