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**TurboJake** · 06-17-2012, 02:33 PM

Power supply borderline, if not too small.

Drop down to the i5 and up the power supply size a bit. And speaking of processor, do you really want to use the factory CPU cooler?

Also, your forgetting optical media or card readers. It's very handy having a bluray burner. And a WiFi card, if your using wireless.

**dreamchasin** · 06-17-2012, 02:33 PM

changed power supply to http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817341017

**dreamchasin** · 06-17-2012, 02:34 PM

Originally posted by TurboJake View Post

Power supply too small.

Drop down to the i5 and up the power supply size a bit. And speaking of processor, do you really want to use the factory CPU cooler?

Also, your forgetting optical media. It's very handy having a bluray burner. And a WiFi card, if your using wireless.

Don't watch bluray, and i HATE wireless.

**TurboJake** · 06-17-2012, 02:52 PM

Originally posted by dreamchasin View Post

changed power supply to http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817341017

Ok, I have that very power supply and I freaking love it, but it may be a bit too small. Right now mines power an i5 2500k, 3x2tb hard drive, GTX460 superclocked, and, 16Gb DDR3 1888.

Drop the 2600k, and up it to a 3770 for $20 more and open up PCIe 3.0 for future use. Do you plan on overclocking past what it does automatically? It's a more powerful processor, with the less power consumption at a 77W TDP compared to the 2600k at 95W TDP. Up to this, and that PSU should be A-ok.

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**dreamchasin** · 06-17-2012, 02:58 PM

Originally posted by TurboJake View Post

Ok, I have that very power supply and I freaking love it, but it may be a bit too small. Right now mines power an i5 2500k, 3x2tb hard drive, GTX460 superclocked, and, 16Gb DDR3 1888.

Drop the 2600k, and up it to a 3770 for $20 more and open up PCIe 3.0 for future use. Do you plan on overclocking past what it does automatically? It's a more powerful processor, with the less power consumption at a 77W TDP compared to the 2600k at 95W TDP. Up to this, and that PSU should be A-ok.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116502

So the 3770 is better? could have sworn i compared them yesterday and the 2600k was better. i do not plan on O/C, i leave it stock. my old alienware had a quad core @ 2.8ghz and ran everything perfectly smooth

which 3770? 3770s or 3770

**TurboJake** · 06-17-2012, 03:02 PM

in synthetic tests, it's 12% better. But it's also Ivy bridge, instead of sandy bridge. Which offers PCIe 3.0, and lower power consumption. but not much further past that.

PassMark Intel vs AMD CPU Benchmarks - High End

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

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the 2600k is better for overclocking though. That's why I asked.

(I forgot Ivy had launched in my first post...)