About ready to make this purchase, what do you guys think ???

Too much, and I want the colors to stay black and blue.

Nice components. I was looking at the similar ones for upgrading one of my boxes. I just picked a different board. You apparently want to OC the i5K (water cooling). This is a pretty potent aircooler that was recommended - as an alternative.

Just be aware that Windows Home Premium supports only 16GB of RAM. So if you want to go beyond, you'll need a higher edition.

ADDRAM, my board will OC, I was just mentioning the vdroop if you are doing some major OCing. My board can OC easily, just wanted to make you aware because having a K chip and water cooling you can really push it. The original board will do 4.5 easy. Sorry if I caused any confusion.

AddRAM said:

Thanks, I`ll look at that board.

The G65 is $200 and doesn`t say anything about supporting the 3rd generation i5 or 7 chip.

MSI Z77A-GD65 Intel 7 Series Motherboard - ATX, Socket H2 (LGA1155), Intel Z77 Express, 2667MHz DDR3 (O.C.), SATA III (6Gb/s), RAID, 8-CH Audio, Gigabit LAN, USB 3.0, PCIe 3.0, SLI/CrossFireX Ready at TigerDirect.com

If the chipset is Z77 it supports Ivy Bridge, 3rd gen Intel chips.

I would just be careful listening to this Linnemeyer character as he's obviously a quack !

AddRam, download the manuals for the mainboards form MSI Global ? Motherboard

Review each one and verify this BIOS has all the settings you want. Again my board will OC easily, but the higher end one offer more settings like Vdroop for more control if you are planning heavy OCing.


And the Board that WHS posted is a pretty good pick.

Ok , got the board and cpu ordered, now I have to just get the memory and i`m done for now. I need some grease so I was gonna order this, thoughts ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835100007


I have Cooler Master Ice Fusion, but I think it`s garbage.

I`m not gonna do any crazy overclocking so that shouldn`t be an issue, dam I`d be crazy happy in the 4 GHz area !!!

What's so funny Brian. I'd like to laugh too.

Did you read what Linnemeyer said ???

That grease looks good, enjoy the new toys!!