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 163#12
99 problems but the b*tch ain't one
washer010 to lukiezgo
25 Jan 163#11
Go X99 to guarantee she leaves
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konraddrozdz
26 Jan 161#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 161#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 161#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
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 162#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:
*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 163#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:
Really thought about getting it, but it doesn't support SLI
(...I think?)
RockstarRobbo
23 Jan 162#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
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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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Take it can get about 4.2ghz out of this probably?
Worth it? hmmm...
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...
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.
Good luck too all going for it though, I won't vote either way
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!
(...I think?)
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