Everything ok here?

[gippy500]

Building for home and office work.I'm hoping it's future proof for a few years. Not too much gaming.But who knows.This is my second build.
Thank you
Gip
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=13569014

 

[boiler1990]

Looks good. You don't really need the SATA cable - your motherboard will come with some, and the Antec 300 isn't a very large case.

 

[pacioli]

The H61 motherboards are fine but a P67 or Z68 would serve you better with that i5 2500K proc. The H61 does not allow overclocking and if you stick with that board you might as well go with the non K series chip, the i5 2500. You could even get away with the i5 2300 or i5 2400 and get similiar performance

 

[chulex67]

bah, i wouldnt spend money on Os or Office, i just download it from somewhere, But thats me!, if you wanna go legal good for you, what pacioli Said, if you want to stick with that mobo, go for a non k series cpu. the case is fine for your Offie, as boiler1990 said, Its not too big, but its big enough.

 

[pacioli]

bah, i wouldnt spend money on Os or Office, i just download it from somewhere, But thats me!, if you wanna go legal good for you, what pacioli Said, if you want to stick with that mobo, go for a non k series cpu. the case is fine for your Offie, as boiler1990 said, Its not too big, but its big enough.

Hmmm, My momma taught me not to steal... Pay for the software.

 

[gippy500]

The H61 motherboards are fine but a P67 or Z68 would serve you better with that i5 2500K proc. The H61 does not allow overclocking and if you stick with that board you might as well go with the non K series chip, the i5 2500. You could even get away with the i5 2300 or i5 2400 and get similiar performance

Thanks for fast reply.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157251

Would this be a good solid board for the i5 2500K ?Ahhh so that's what "K" means. Don't know if I'll overclock but I just might if I can figure my way around this stuff!!
Thanks
Gip

 

[pacioli]

That board will do in a pinch!

FYI the Sandy Bridge CPUs are silly easy to overclock even on stock cooling. The i5 2500K should go to 4 Ghz just by changing the UEFI clock multiplier to 40

 

[selayan]

Yup the Asrock gen3 extreme3 is a good board and it has PCI 3 for Ivy bridge if you want to upgrade later. It is the same one I will be getting.

 

[gippy500]

Also is ASRock a good company?

 

[selayan]

Yeh AsRock is a derivative of Asus so they are pretty good. I'm waiting until monday to order mine since the weekend is coming up. But if you are not planning to upgrade later then the Gigabyte z68a d3h b3 works too and it is $3 bucks cheaper than the Asrock according to Newegg.

 

[boiler1990]

bah, i wouldnt spend money on Os or Office, i just download it from somewhere, But thats me!, if you wanna go legal good for you,

There are sometimes cheaper ways than buying retail.

If the OP doesn't want to pay for a retail version, he can just get the "System Builder's" version (i.e OEM). I believe the only catch is that you can only install it on one PC.


I'd also recommend ASRock's Extreme3 Gen3 Z68. Only $130 for a good board. Otherwise Asus and Gigabyte are also good - have no complaints about my P67A-UD4.

 

[selayan]

If you are a student you can get it usually from your school, I was in IT so I was able to get versions of Visual studio and windows 7 when I wanted but I've lost the discs haha.