I have been slowly buying parts to build a new computer and I had bought the Intel® Core™ i7-2600K Processor back in September and I was looking at pairing it with the best motherboard possible. My question is that the P8Z68 DELUXE/GEN3 is PCI-Express 3.0 Ready but it says that the "Actual PCIe 3.0 speed varies with the installed CPU type" and the Intel® Core™ i7-2600K Processor only supports PCI 2.0.
I am fairly new to this, but that seems like I'm paying for something I really won't be able to utilize. Any insight someone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
I'm a casual gamer (WoW, Skyrim & Witcher 2), but I really like my toys and I want something that will last for a few years. I'm building an air cooled PC using the following components that I've already purchased:
Intel® Core™ i7-2600K Processor
SilverStone Fortress FT02-B
CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX850
Prolimatech Armageddon w/Vortex 140x25x25mm fans x 2
I want to use the SSD Cache on the board but it seems that most of the reviews I have been reading on the SSD drives sat that they tend to die fairly early so I'm a little on the fence about that.
I want to buy:
Western Digital Caviar Black WD5002AALX 500GB (I really don't think I'll need 1T unless the extra 32mb cache is worth the price)
I really don't know about the Graphics Card or the optical drive I only plan on running one graphics card unless there is a two card set-up that out performs the single card within a reasonable price point difference.
Any other recommendations you might have would be greatly appreciated.
I strayed off of my original topic. I was going to post this under "CPU and Components" but it seemed like the bulk of this post was system based.
Thanks for your patience!
Tim
I am fairly new to this, but that seems like I'm paying for something I really won't be able to utilize. Any insight someone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
I'm a casual gamer (WoW, Skyrim & Witcher 2), but I really like my toys and I want something that will last for a few years. I'm building an air cooled PC using the following components that I've already purchased:
Intel® Core™ i7-2600K Processor
SilverStone Fortress FT02-B
CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX850
Prolimatech Armageddon w/Vortex 140x25x25mm fans x 2
I want to use the SSD Cache on the board but it seems that most of the reviews I have been reading on the SSD drives sat that they tend to die fairly early so I'm a little on the fence about that.
I want to buy:
Western Digital Caviar Black WD5002AALX 500GB (I really don't think I'll need 1T unless the extra 32mb cache is worth the price)
I really don't know about the Graphics Card or the optical drive I only plan on running one graphics card unless there is a two card set-up that out performs the single card within a reasonable price point difference.
Any other recommendations you might have would be greatly appreciated.
I strayed off of my original topic. I was going to post this under "CPU and Components" but it seemed like the bulk of this post was system based.
Thanks for your patience!
Tim
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