Starting to appear, Aria have 1155 motherboards in stock as of yesterday.

i5-2500k (the unlocked one) is £172.


In totaly unrelated news my i5-760 went back to supplier along with the motherboard

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Im way out of the loop with hardware now, what does Sandy Bridge bring to the table? Are we up to real working USB 3.0, sata 3 and hexcore CPUs yet?

USB 3.0 is on the boards (nec chip) as is the new sata ports, the new i7-2600s are quad cores, but use hyperthreading to simulate 8, so erm close



ASUS P8P67 Pro Intel P67
MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67

Im toying with these two, I would consider gigabyte but they for some reason dont have firewire ports  

Aria are expecting i5-2500ks in on Tuesday.

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Im way out of the loop with hardware now, what does Sandy Bridge bring to the table? Are we up to real working USB 3.0, sata 3 and hexcore CPUs yet?

USB 3.0 is on the boards (nec chip) as is the new sata ports, the new i7-2600s are quad cores, but use hyperthreading to simulate 8, so erm close



ASUS P8P67 Pro Intel P67
MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67

Im toying with these two, I would consider gigabyte but they for some reason dont have firewire ports  

Aria are expecting i5-2500ks in on Tuesday.

Firewires dead.  Nothing will be coming with it.
Its like complaining that they dont come with one of those larger com ports.

I agree, but I have an old camcorder that uses it and frankly Id rather have it than not, had this not been the case I wouldnt have gave a crap  :wub:

edit-> infact thinking about it, I may have given my brother this camcorder ages ago (I have a HD one) I better check

There is a good write up on Sandy Bridge here:  http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-intel-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/1

Will be upgrading my gaming computer to one in a few months I think, The i5-2500K looks great value with low power usage and highly overclock’able  8-)

Yeah thats damn impressive for something on chip  :wub:

hi guys,just for your info plese check the ocuk forums,there is some info on the sandybridge regarding the correct ram to use and volts etc,a few ppl have blown theres in 2 days  copy what they advice.


Hi there


Right guys myself and our technical guys have spent the entire weekend and this morning in discussions with Intel regarding the alarming amount of reports of Sandybridge CPU's dying and have been conducting our own testing as have Intel to find out what is a definite no no.


Sandybridge maximum safe voltages

Core Voltage - Not recommended too exceed 1.38v, doing so could kill the CPU, we therefor recommend a range of 1.325-1.350v if overclocking.
Memory Voltage - Intel recommend 1.50v plus/minus 5% which means upto 1.58v is the safe recommended limit. In our testing we have found 1.65v has caused no issues.
BCLK Base Clock - This is strictly a NO, anyone using base clock overclocking could/will cause damange to CPU/Mainboard.
PLL Voltage - Do not exceed 1.9v!!



Processor - Basically we recommend customers not to exceed 1.35v to play it safe, all our bundles are set at 1.3250v or lower, any competitors offering bundles above 4.6GHz you should be enquiring as to what voltage they are using as we believe anything over 1.38v will limit CPU lifespan and anything over 1.42v will likely kill the CPU or severely limit its lifespan.

Memory - Intel recommend 1.50v plus/minus 5% which means 1.60v is the ideal safe maximum, but we have found in our testing all 1.65v memory is fine. We have also found most new 1.65v like Corsair XMS3 will run at its rated timings with just 1.50-1.55v which is well within Intel specifications. So people upgrading to Sandybridge you can still use your old DDR3, but we do recommend you run it at 1.60v or less. We are shipping most of our bundles which feature Corsair XMS at 1.50v-1.55v at rated timings. We've also discussed with Asus and MSI regarding voltages for memory and they also confirm in their testing 1.65v caused no issues with reliability.

Base Clock - To put it simple if you value the life of your components, do not overclock using base clock!

PLL Voltage - Again do not exceed 1.9v!


These are just guidelines we recommend you follow, if you want to push more voltage through your CPU's then just be aware they could die on you. Your warranty is un-affected and we will honor any CPU's that die, we just won't ask questions as to how you killed them.

Not all CPU's are as fragile as others, we have experimented upto 1.50v Vcore and 1.70v memory and had zero issues with reliability, so it seems some of fine when pushing hard.

Intel Sandybridge Review

A guide to Overclocking the 2500K on Asus, Gigabyte and MSI Motherboards

I'm still undecided on whether i can be bothered to OC or not. If not i might just go with one of the cheapest H57 boards, i only use a single GPU so it would be fine.

If i were to go P67 route, i would probably go for the Asus.