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Source: HotUKDeals | Deals > Technology
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mamboboy
23 Jan 16
Outside of the Today Only offer and cashback the mobo/cpu comes to £291.98

Total cost with the Today Only offer and MSI cashback works out £257.99. Pretty good deal IMO when you consider the 6600K doesn't drop in price much.

Delivery is £4.57 for this without Free Delivery which is pretty acceptable given it's DPD next day.
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Danze1984
25 Jan 16 3 #12
99 problems but the b*tch ain't one
washer010 to lukiezgo
25 Jan 16 3 #11
Go X99 to guarantee she leaves
Latest comments (25)
konraddrozdz
26 Jan 16 1 #25
That's true that ROG is overpriced. Anyway Asus is not my choice. I'm still deciding between MSI M5 or Gigabyte Gaming 5.
rendeverance
25 Jan 16 #24
i5 2400 @ 3.7ghz...

Take it can get about 4.2ghz out of this probably?

Worth it? hmmm...
konraddrozdz
25 Jan 16 #22
awful choice for mobo = cold, It's like buying a BWM M3 and putting budget tires on it... better go with another available bundle with Asus ROG Z170 Maximus VIII Ranger.
mamboboy to konraddrozdz
25 Jan 16 1 #23
But that's £78 more not inc delivery when you take into account the MSI cashback. Plus you don't save that much with that bundle, I think I worked it out as a £5 saving or something - you'd be better off going with Flubit as they took £18.98 off the CPU alone - plus that's a retail i5 so it comes with a heatsink.

And IMO with ROG you are just paying a premium for the brand. The MSI Z170A GAMING M5 is probably a better buy for less money...
mamboboy
25 Jan 16 1 #21
Ah yeah, true. But then buying 3 more 980 Ti's would be disaster on my bank balance so I probably wouldn't venture there any ways! Could always go SLi if they drop in price nicely in a year or so though :smiley:
washer010
25 Jan 16 #20
2nd gen i5 only has 16 2.0 pci-e lanes. Quad sli 980ti would surely be a disaster
paulrwarner
25 Jan 16 #13
Got i5 2500k any point upgrading?
jomay to paulrwarner
25 Jan 16 1 #15
No, not at all. Seems you'd get a very costly 10%-20% performance improvement. And that doesn't even factor in that the 2500k overclocks very nicely.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-2500K+%40+3.30GHz
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-6600K+%40+3.50GHz&id=2570

Of course it depends what you need exactly. The 6600k has much better integrated graphics and uses less power. But for that money you can easily get a discrete graphics card.
washer010 to paulrwarner
25 Jan 16 #19
Only for high end sli/crossfire in my humble opinion, then you would poss benefit from pci-e 3.0
kiora_nas
25 Jan 16 #18
I have a i5 2500K as well, was possibly looking to upgrade to be occulus ready, but looks like I might be better in putting the money into a better graphics card first.
titchyyyyy
25 Jan 16 #17
Really struggling to not upgrade to Skylake / DDR4 with deals like this... Such a cheap upgrade over my 2500k, but considering it's still not a massive upgrade, I'm trying my hardest to hold back!
Rich44
25 Jan 16 2 #9
Personally i'd pay slightly more and buy elsewhere, fine for those who haven't been on the receiving end of Scan customer services but for me there's more to a deal than the bottom line.

Good luck too all going for it though, I won't vote either way
v8griff to Rich44
25 Jan 16 #16
Totally agree. Use the term "customer services" very lightly, shysters in my opinion.
mamboboy
25 Jan 16 #14
So I spent part of yesterday researching other potential builds and couldn't beat this price in terms of price. Although the motherboard put me off the deal as it's essentially a business-class board disguised as a gaming one (in my opinion) - not bad by any means, but it has a pretty bog standard audio controller (Realtek ALC 887 and not the ALC1150 that's on the slightly more expensive boards) - the main problem for me is it lacks a headphone amp. And from looking at it I can see it's not going to be a brilliant overclocker worthy of a 6600K.

I decided to Flubit some Amazon prices and got a pretty good markup for a 6600K System based around the MSI Z170A KRAIT. I got these prices after Flubitting:

Kingston 8GB 2133MHz DDR4 Non-ECC CL14 DIMM HyperX FURY Black Series* - £29.93
i5 6600K Retail - £181.01
MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING 4 Motherboard - £101.36
Total: £312.30

Or with an MSI Z170A GAMING M5 it was £332.76.

*Yes, single channel ram isn't preferable, but they offered a whopping 14% discount which demolished the offers (3-4%) I had for dual kits!

OK you may not get the MSI cashback with these Flubit builds, but there's a slight chance as I believe they do use some of the retailers offering the promo who could include their own invoices?

Any ways, after much umm'ing and arr'ing, I opted against an upgrade. I have a 2500K, which games don't make break a sweat and the best motherboard for the Z77 range (Asus Maximus V Extreme) which is going to destroy entry/mid level 1151 gaming boards in terms of overclocking potential, build quality and, in a way, upgrade potential (could go quad SLI 980Ti's if I wanted! (EDIT: Scrap that, probably not the best idea)) - although the fact it currently sells for ~£180-200 on eBay is really making me re-contemplate my u-turn!
Danze1984
25 Jan 16 3 #12
99 problems but the b*tch ain't one
lukiezgo
25 Jan 16 #10
Nice price. Might actually get onto that DDR4 build the missus keeps telling me not to do or she'll leave me... :smile:
washer010 to lukiezgo
25 Jan 16 3 #11
Go X99 to guarantee she leaves
RockstarRobbo
24 Jan 16 #8
http://www.msi.com/product/motherboard/Z170A-G43-PLUS.html#hero-overview according to the official site the board only supports Crossfire.
kelzebub
23 Jan 16 #7
Really thought about getting it, but it doesn't support SLI
(...I think?)
RockstarRobbo
23 Jan 16 2 #6
Exactly what I'm looking for cheers OP :-)
makeseverythingup
23 Jan 16 #5
They come to £299.96 bought separately- CPU from Aria and MB from Novatech.
BeerGoggles
23 Jan 16 #4
Well it's up to you but I doubt anyone but the tecky people would know if this is a good deal or not. What I'm saying is I would have included the price of each item from something like amazon so people could see the cost saving of this bundle.
BeerGoggles
23 Jan 16 #2
It might help if you compare this bundle to buying them separately so people can see the saving. I think most like me, won't have a clue if this is a good deal or not.
mamboboy to BeerGoggles
23 Jan 16 #3
Well together they come to £291.98 minus delivery, which you'd already find hard to beat elsewhere.

At the final price when you include cashback it works out cheaper than 6600k + m-ATX board deals.

To be honest I thought about going into detail but I knew people would vote cold just due to the fact they didn't know much about computers. Wasted too much time in the past defending computer deals haha
mamboboy
23 Jan 16 1 #1
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