Building my first pc (for gaming)

[Saithes]

Stable to me means that I can run it with no problems, glitches or overheating. And it passed so Im fine. I can run multiple windows of wow, rift, or any other game without it starting to get hot and slow down a bit.

Then your definition of stable is flawed.

[BicycleMafioso]

Stable to me means that I can run it with no problems, glitches or overheating. And it passed so Im fine. I can run multiple windows of wow, rift, or any other game without it starting to get hot and slow down a bit.

But that does not mean the overclock is stable.
Overclock stable = passing several different stresstests at great lengths
Overclock stable != not having crashed yet while doing mundane tasks.

You can't come and redefine the terminology used for overclocking, because A) it'd be wrong, and B) it's confusing.

[Jurwi]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=287

Hyperthreading you can easily disable. Hell, even with just stock turboboost enabled the 2600k is still faster then the 2500k with its turbo on.

Epic link, let's take a look at the game benchmarks.

Fallout 3 = 6 fps difference, won't notice at all
L4Dead = 3 fps difference, won't notice at all
Far Cry 2 = 1,5 fps difference, won't notice at all
Crysis Warhead = 2500K actually WINS by 1 fps
Starcraft 2 = 2500K WINS by 2 fps
WoW = 2500K WINS by 1 fps

Seriously, it's completely useless to waste extra 75$ on i7. Who cares if the CPU can keep up with 990X? 990X is not needed either for gaming. If someone is building a PC with a certain budget, it's most retarded thing ever to waste the money on 2500K -> 2600K upgrade.

Disable HT? Why the hell would you want to pay extra 75$ (mostly for the HT) just to disable it and gain extra 100MHz max OC which is not noticable anywhere par superPI and other useless nonsense?

[Luciferstwin]

Epic link, let's take a look at the game benchmarks.

Fallout 3 = 6 fps difference, won't notice at all
L4Dead = 3 fps difference, won't notice at all
Far Cry 2 = 1,5 fps difference, won't notice at all
Crysis Warhead = 2500K actually WINS by 1 fps
Starcraft 2 = 2500K WINS by 2 fps
WoW = 2500K WINS by 1 fps

All of which the human eye will never notice because human eye cant detect anything over what... like 62 fps? The 2600k will not be replaced any time soon, which is why that I said it is better in the long run.

[Skelly]

All of which the human eye will never notice because human eye cant detect anything over what... like 62 fps? The 2600k will not be replaced any time soon, which is why that I said it is better in the long run.

Its getting replaced next quarter..

[BicycleMafioso]

All of which the human eye will never notice because human eye cant detect anything over what... like 62 fps?

Common misconception, and also wrong.

[Saithes]

Its getting replaced next quarter..

No it isn't. LGA 2011 is not LGA 1155's replacement by any means. Ivybridge is Sandybridge's and Sandybridge-E's replacement. LGA 2011 is Intel's Enthusiast platform while LGA 1155 is their mainstream platform. They will coexist until 2013 both receiving Ivybridge processors.

[Jurwi]

All of which the human eye will never notice because human eye cant detect anything over what... like 62 fps? The 2600k will not be replaced any time soon, which is why that I said it is better in the long run.

There's no fps limit for human eye, it's complete bullshit and I don't know why people keep spreading that crap on the internetz.

2600K won't be replaced soon, no. But neither will 2500K. They both will last just as long in a gaming rig, which pretty much nullifies your point. 2600K has it's uses and it is superior choice for certain kind of rigs, but not for gaming rig and expecially not when there's a 1300$ budget.

[Skelly]

No it isn't. LGA 2011 is not LGA 1155's replacement by any means. Ivybridge is Sandybridge's and Sandybridge-E's replacement. LGA 2011 is Intel's Enthusiast platform while LGA 1155 is their mainstream platform. They will coexist until 2013 both receiving Ivybridge processors.

Edit: Fixed for stupidity
I did not say LGA 1155 is being replaced by LGA 2011. I'm saying that the 2600k will be replaced by a new chip as the "top dog"

[Saithes]

I did not say LGA 1155 is being replaced by LGA 2011. I'm saying that the 2600k will be replaced by a new chip as the "top dog"

Fixed.

The 2600K was never meant to be top dog lol.. You also did not specify so its open to interpretation

[Musta Kyy]

All of which the human eye will never notice because human eye cant detect anything over what... like 62 fps? The 2600k will not be replaced any time soon, which is why that I said it is better in the long run.

Well, according to the tests, it would be replaced just as soon as 2500K would be.
And in anycase, you get more performance difference if you use the $70 on Mobo, RAM, GPU or even SSD instead 2500K -> 2600K.

[Skelly]

Fixed.

The 2600K was never meant to be top dog lol.. You also did not specify so its open to interpretation

It doesn't really matter if it was meant to be top dog.. Its the fastest quad core chip on the market, and Sandy Bridge-E will bring better quad cores. It'll be like how no one ever bought an i7 860 after the i7 920 came out

[Saithes]

It doesn't really matter if it was meant to be top dog.. Its the fastest quad core chip on the market, and Sandy Bridge-E will bring better quad cores. It'll be how no one ever bought an i7 860 after the i7 920 came out

Except the i7 920 came out before the i7 860.

[BicycleMafioso]

Except the i7 920 came out before the i7 860.

Indeed. And I'd rather have the i7-860, in fact.
i7-2600 replaced i7-870, just like the low-end Sandy Bridge-E will replace the i7-950, which is, I believe, the most low-end 1366 availible atm.

[Skelly]

Except the i7 920 came out before the i7 860.

Well don't I look stupid..

[xPreston]

AMD Athlon II ftw imo

[llDemonll]

HI OP LOOK WHAT THIS THREAD HAS BECOME OMG

Your build looks good, but why the mix of newegg and amazon? if you're in the US, get everything through newegg, if you're outside the us (europe) then amazon is probably the better bet.

get rid of the USB wireless thing. get a pci-card wireless adapter. usb sucks, i went through 3 before i bought a pci one and i would never buy another usb one