Yer I been reading up and I think I'm going to get a asus pro on the p67 and the i5 2500k as I only want a slight oc and I want it for gaming and bench test that beats a i7 setup.now just a nice person to help me build it lol

Quote from: Brian_A on January 10, 2011, 15:25:42 PM
Yer I been reading up and I think I'm going to get a asus pro on the p67 and the i5 2500k as I only want a slight oc and I want it for gaming and bench test that beats a i7 setup.now just a nice person to help me build it lol

Mine came this morning from Aria, I put the pre-order in Sunday night, and evidently got lucky and got one of mondays deliveries, it's at my house now


Brian building a PC isn't overly challenging to be honest, most if not all connections nowadays are keyed so that you cannot plug them into the wrong place.

Quote from: Brian_A on January 10, 2011, 15:25:42 PM
Yer I been reading up and I think I'm going to get a asus pro on the p67 and the i5 2500k as I only want a slight oc and I want it for gaming and bench test that beats a i7 setup.now just a nice person to help me build it lol

If I still lived up north I'd be happy to give you a hand. matt5cott and the others are right though, it's actually very simple but does seem daunting the first time. As long as you follow the instructions in your motherboard manual you will be fine! The trickiest part is usually fitting the heatsink for the CPU, everything else is literally plug in and go (and lots of screwing ).

I'll try and get a couple of decent high res shots of it, tbh it should be a piece of cake to copy the setup if you're getting the same gear.

Hi thanks for the advice,yer the cpu looks the hard part,I be using the h50 that was in my old pc as I'm told its the same bracket as my old 1156 mb,there just seems a lot of wires now I have stripped it down,but I'm going to give it ago,I been reading up on how to build your first pc on sites but they was 2yr old no upto date stuff but it gave me some idea,and I'm sure I can come and bug you guys if I get stuck where a cable goes 

Ok got it clocked at 4.7Ghz and just run superPi 32M run in 7 minutes 45

maximum CPU temp was 43c, oddly core 1 is 4/6c hotter than the others 

Current problem is the volts are a bit high (a few bits are set to auto) so I need to do some tweaking.

To be honest with the temps so low, I wouldn't be surprised to crank it more in a safe voltage range, amazing chips 

Brian_A I'll bang some pics up tomorrow.

Though I don't see why you can't just run it at stock speeds for a bit so you don't have to use your phone, funnily enough at stock it's not exactly slow 

Sounds good Matt,pleased you got it up and running,I am using my phone as I don't have anything else,I am only waiting on stock to come in at aria or tekheads I refuse to pay ocuk prices on principle that they bumped them up cos they have stock.will look forward to seeing pics 

Quote from: Brian_A on January 12, 2011, 00:44:41 AM
Sounds good Matt,pleased you got it up and running,I am using my phone as I don't have anything else,I am only waiting on stock to come in at aria or tekheads I refuse to pay ocuk prices on principle that they bumped them up cos they have stock.will look forward to seeing pics 

Its not the first time they have done this

PS Matt, all the companies i've seen doing pre-oc'd Sandybridge PC's are rating them at a stable 4.5Ghz-4.6Ghz day to day use clock.

Looking good Matt! hehe I checked my bank balance earlier I can see myself upgraded my gaming comp sooner then I was planning 



Brian_A Ebuyer are expecting stock on the 14^th http://www.ebuyer.com/product/252535

Thanks for the link I'm sure stock will be back to normal next week, that's the longest I can wait 

If you want the stupidly large 12 megapixel versions of these photos the direct link is below each picture, or goto http://chasethedevil.co.uk/coppermatt/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-2 and click the pictures twice (it will show a preview size the same as the below, click again for the full fat size)

IF YOU HAVE A COOLERMASTER STORM SNIPER CASE THE P8P67 WILL NOT LET YOU WORK ON IT USING THE CPU CUTOUT AS BELOW! THE HOLES ARE JUST OUT.


http://chasethedevil.co.uk/coppermatt/albums/userpics/10001/11012011524.jpg

Right, onwards to some general pictures.


http://chasethedevil.co.uk/coppermatt/albums/userpics/10001/11012011508.jpg

Boxes.



http://chasethedevil.co.uk/coppermatt/albums/userpics/10001/11012011509.jpg

Board overlay.



http://chasethedevil.co.uk/coppermatt/albums/userpics/10001/11012011510.jpg

Removing and installing the CPU is easy, as it says on the tab, use the tab at the bottom where it says REMOVE 



http://chasethedevil.co.uk/coppermatt/albums/userpics/10001/11012011517.jpg

Put the CPU in, again stupidly easy, use the notches to line it up (again this is all in the motherboard manual)



http://chasethedevil.co.uk/coppermatt/albums/userpics/10001/11012011520.jpg

CPU sitting pretty, after this apply thermal paste, or not if you're using the stock intel jobbie (it has paste on the fan already)



http://chasethedevil.co.uk/coppermatt/albums/userpics/10001/11012011521.jpg

Take this piece of plastic off.



http://chasethedevil.co.uk/coppermatt/albums/userpics/10001/11012011525.jpg

Power plugged into the board, ignore the metal brackets either side of the CPU, these are for my noctua kit.



http://chasethedevil.co.uk/coppermatt/albums/userpics/10001/11012011526.jpg

The manual is well written, and makes annoying speaker/power buttons stupidly easy to setup.



http://chasethedevil.co.uk/coppermatt/albums/userpics/10001/12012011527.jpg

It should look a bit like that when done, well obviously not if you're going to be using a stock intel blower.

That's an nice photo writeup Matt What was your total spend on this build, its giving me upgrade itch!

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on January 12, 2011, 10:35:26 AM
That's an nice photo writeup Matt What was your total spend on this build, its giving me upgrade itch!

To be honest there's not much to say, a writeup as such isn't really relevant as it goes over it in great detail in the ASUS manual, and it's in clear english not chinglish, so fair play to them edit -> (I will do some overclocking stuff mind)


Cost wise; Essentials,

ASUS P8P67 Pro Intel P67 £140
Intel Core i5-2500K £173
Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz/PC3-12800 XMS3 £32
OCZ 60GB Vertex 2E SSD 2.5" SATA-II £75
Palit GeForce GTX 460 Sonic 1024MB £130


Stuff I needed because my previous machine is from 2002 odd (my 'main use' pc since years ago has been a laptop)

CM Storm Scout + Coolermaster Silent Pro 700W Modular PSU *Special Offer Bundle* £110
Noctua NH-U12P SE2 £43
Samsung SH-S223L 22x DVD±RW DL & RAM with LightScribe SATA Optical Drive £11
Logitech X-210 Speakers - 2.1 Channel 25W RMS £21
Noctua 120mm NF-P12 £17
Samsung HD204UI Spinpoint F4 2TB £55



£800 to build it from the ground up basically. Assumedly people out there will be upgrading so already have storage, PSUs/Cases etc, so it will cost a lot less. With that said, for the power I actually think that's a decent price.

I'd be looking at about £350 for my upgrade path including a new cooler.

How quiet do you rate the Noctua? I'm guessing the additional 120mm you purchased is some overkill for overcloking?

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on January 12, 2011, 10:52:23 AM
I'd be looking at about £350 for my upgrade path including a new cooler.

How quiet do you rate the Noctua? I'm guessing the additional 120mm you purchased is some overkill for overcloking?

YOU CANNOT PUT ME IN DE COOLER.






I've read you can overclock all cores to 4.5GHz using the stock intel blower which comes with it, might get a bit warm mind, but that's still a brutal amount of crunching power 

I love Noctua gear, I am running without the inline resistors (LNA low noise adaptor is in the box) and with both the sides off and it's quiet 

NF-P12s I have a big soft spot for, I use 2 on my xbox 360, and the additional one is going to be mounted on the side providing an additional vent for the graphics card, likely overkill tbh but in for a penny, in for a pound