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Hi, sorry to be such a newbie. I haven't upgraded for 3 years. I logged into my old suppliers and I see all this

LGA1155, LGA2011, LGA1150, Haswell, Ivy blahhh

My budget for the board and cpu (only) is $1300


if I threw a Intel CORE i7 4930K onto a Asus SABERTOOTH X79
and added (seperate budget) 16GB Corsair (2x8GB) DDR3 CMY16GX3M2A2133C11 2133MHz would it make a computer?

Im just pulling components of the site

Is that a computer setup?

Can anyone shed some light on whats new and whats stable and whats a good config,
Im not worried about graphics and psu as I have a 1500w and a couple of new cheap graphics cards already.

Any help would be appreciated peoples
 
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Someone Somewhere
Yeah, LGA2011 is only really worth doing if you need tons of cores. LGA1150 is everything else.

You should be able to get an i7-4930K for about $550, and then a ~$200-250 MB. I'd advise getting one with 8x RAM slots and to get 4x4GB DDR3-1600 (1866 only if it's really cheap) CL9 1.5V sticks. Brand doesn't matter much.

Who's your supplier? What GPUs?
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$1300 for the CPU and motherboard only is way overkill; you could have a top-end set for half that.

Unless you're doing serious multimedia work, I wouldn't advise anything more than an i5-4670K and a ~$130 Z87 motherboard.

If you want a crash course on modern CPUs, Toms' best gaming CPU for the money list is worth a read: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

If you do end up going with LGA2011, get four sticks, as it's got a quad-channel memory controller.
 
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Im into graphic design, video editing and I play some games to take my mind off it. If $1300 is overkill I am happy, previous builds Ive spent more. My first budget ever.
I would proffer overkill as I can upgrade graphics and ram etc later.

Thanks for that link I shall read it immediately, and for the advice on ram, I shall do that. its just a board then? I noticed at my supplier he only had about 10 2011 boards but a squillion 1150 sockets.
 
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Yeah, LGA2011 is only really worth doing if you need tons of cores. LGA1150 is everything else.

You should be able to get an i7-4930K for about $550, and then a ~$200-250 MB. I'd advise getting one with 8x RAM slots and to get 4x4GB DDR3-1600 (1866 only if it's really cheap) CL9 1.5V sticks. Brand doesn't matter much.

Who's your supplier? What GPUs?
 
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Thanks guys, thanks Someone Somewhere, I shall take your advice. Unfortunately in Australia nothing is cheap but the cpu suggested and the asus sabertooth comes under 1300. 4 x 8gb sticks of 1866 takes it to $1546 which I can live with.

I really truly appreciate the help!

PS
Supplier is Umart Australia http://
The 2 cheap vid cards I have are Asus 640 GT
 
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Someone Somewhere

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I personally wouldn't use a sabertooth; they tend to be rather pricey without much reason.

I'd get this:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4930K 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor ($685.00 @ PCCaseGear)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($39.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Motherboard: Asus P9X79 LE ATX LGA2011 Motherboard ($249.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Memory: GeIL EVO Veloce Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($384.00 @ PLE Computers)
Total: $1357.00
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-11 21:18 EST+1100)

LGA2011 chips don't come with a boxed CPU cooler; you need to buy one separately.

You generally save a fair bit by shopping around, but I'll look at UMart.
 
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wow someone, thats really decent of you to go to that trouble, it all looks great and it has a cooler which is a bonus, my supplier didnt have them with the cpu's. You have made it very easy for me thank you 1000 times.

One question, if a board can take ram @ 1066/1333/1600/1866/2133/2400, why would I not go 2400?

Also I just checked my current RAM, apparently I have 12gb OCZ 6G(6x2G) DDR3 Blade C9 2000Mhz
 
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