got any links?

Blimey - that text is densely packed and hard to read. Have you never heard of paragraphs? :confused:

After lots of hesitation and trying to justify the upgrade - went for it and yesterday ordered the last one priced at £419. Today the price has gone up to £443.99 - which is still a good deal IMHO as it comes with the CPU cooler (~£30)

Will be quite a difference as I am upgrading from Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz (released in 2008) and based on cpubenchmark it is about 5 times slower compared to 6700k :smiley:

Me too, I have a great 2600k system that runs perfectly. A few years ago computing power was doubling super fast, but it seems to have slowed down a bit lately. I haven't met anything yet the 2600k can't do fast and well. It helps that I have 12Gb of overclocked memory. And I usually run the CPU stock but have overclocked to 4.8Ghz with water cooling. Maybe I'll upgrade in another 2 years!

Have to buy ram to get the or on the cup.

Have to buy ram to get the or on the cup.

At this price I'd want a hexacore...

I got an overclocked bundle off scan, was about £20 more than buying separately from PC partpicker, was very pleased as I went for the i7 6800k. between the assembly and overclocking/stress testing, was well worth the £20

sorry, didn't see this was overclocked too, great deal if awd-it are reputable

OVERCLOCKED to a Huge 4.5Ghz (only when purchased with memory from the drop down box)

Soooooo tempted!!!

I didn't say you COULD get one for this price, only that I'd want one. The 5820k has been around the £300 mark a few times, and the mobo is about £130 worth, so not that hard to do.

Got an i7 2600k really need upgrade..they are the only original parts in my pc but I never seem struggle on any game.
I just keep talking myself out of upgrading.

I am always dubious about pre-overclocked bundles as I am sure they prob just load a bios profile..

Every CPU is different and it means these pre-overclocked bundles will over voltage the processor to get a generic stable overclock..

I love that arctic freezer 13

You need to increase settings or/and resolution to get the best out of your GPU. At lower resolution the CPU will struggle giving up and down frames, at the higher settings and/or resolution will use less cpu and FPS will be steadier all the way through. Your cpu is still very good for the 980ti the problem comes for these people that at all cost do want to play on these high frequency monitors. the 2600k at the same frequency is only 10/12% less powerful than the 6700k

Try other games.
Would be strange to just happen in one game.

Cheers for info. I'll be sticking with it for a while longer now :-D

take my word for good, I got 2600k, 3770k, 4790, 3930k etc... and I always do tests on the lower power cpu's, I know what I am talking about. I only need to get a nice gtx1080 sli now, even if I do not need it, lol

Running a 980ti but got a vive a few weeks back.
Still not struggling on games even like raw data so it's a decent set-up.
Might pick another ti up but sli support always put me off.

I can atest to this. On Overwatch I was having horrid stutter for awhile and every time I dropped settings it seemed to get worse, bumped the settings up from where they were originally and the game was much more stable (I run a 2500k @4.3ghz and a R9 285 for reference :stuck_out_tongue: )

personally i would only buy a cpu right now if you really need it just wait for zen or even kabylake

every game does behave in a different way, @1080p some do need a better cpu (ex:crysis3) but the most does not and at higher settings and/or higher resolution, the cpu usage does come down. The 2600k is the very best for O.C.,you can go up to 4800mhz no problems but with a very good cooler and should not be a problem with a 980ti sli. Any eventual future upgrade other that the 980ti sli might be affected by the pci2 lanes.

My cooler is a bit pants tbh. Think it's running at 4.3 might get a new cooler and some fans. It's like a radiator since I got a new case :-P

980ti.

GTX1080 is the natural upgrade for you, or you could go for 980Ti SLI, although SLI won't give consistent performance across all games.

excellent company, can personally vouch for them. excellent service and the overclocked bundles are well built and properly tested to make sure stable.

I put my 980Ti on ebay but pulled it as it's still smashing everything.
I'm. Not really into 4k gaming and it's playing vive well enough.
If you wanna have a nosey at my rig it's here
https://twitter.com/geebeegooner/status/768558848793841666?s=09

It's daft like me ha ha ha.

GTX-1080 .... Yes for people that like to spend £600 on a graphics card alone. No thanks !

It's not for you, there's plenty of people, some of my clients for example that will pay double that for a GPU. There's people who will pay £100,000 for an audiophile music system, although I would argue the GTX1080 has a perceptible increase in performance, so maybe not a good example. £600 is not a waste if they can use the performance and some people can, and some people just want higher end gear.

Are those Harman Kardon soundsticks pretty decent?

Never really use them. Got them on a voucher glitch on here for £70 or something.
But when I use them they are very good.

I was just looking for some speakers that are reasonable for listening to music when I use my Mac Mini as the internal speaker on the Mac Mini is as expected not that great.

Anyway back to this deal I need to sell my dual Xeon system with 32GB RAM and do a Skylake or Broadwell-E build.

​just checked, the price has gone up since and the overclock isn't as high, mine is 4.4ghz, they only offer that in the oc10 bundle which is more expensive
https://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/configurator/overclocked-custom-gaming-hardware-bundle-x99oc5
makes this deal even better!

thanks guys im running a 2600k still with a 970 strix i think i will stick with this for another 12 mths before upgrading my gpu if there aint more then 10 pcent upgrade wise

Hmm Kaby Lake mobile chips are out, the desktop parts should follow soon.
Not a breakthrough but tests show an improvement.over Skylake

How are they making money off this deal? no matter what i try, pc part pick still give me a higher price in total. Are not brand new?

Wondering the same thing, I am an IT reseller and can get no where near this price from trade resellers. No idea where they get their stock.

Me too, I have a great 2600k system that runs perfectly. A few years ago computing power was doubling super fast, but it seems to have slowed down a bit lately. I haven't met anything yet the 2600k can't do fast and well. It helps that I have 12Gb of overclocked memory. And I usually run the CPU stock but have overclocked to 4.8Ghz with water cooling. Maybe I'll upgrade in another 2 years!

Not sure whether to upgrade my measly i3 or buy the PS4 neo...

An upgrade to your i3 machine will be cheaper and more powerful. Plus games will be cheaper and you won't have to pay to play the games you've bought online.

PM me with your current spec and what you've budgeted to spend. The PS4 Neo will be underpowered when it eventually launches from what specs have been seen in the wild.

I'm just squeezing the last out of my AMD 8350 at the moment, and my 12gb of RAM cos 4gb broke. And my 660 still does stuff alright :wink: We'll see in a couple weeks when I start uni

PM'ed many thanks!
However I kinda want a PS4 so I can be casual when playing some games.

Only place where you see improvement by upgrading such old gen cpu will be online multiplayer, but it also depends on gpu you curently using, i was in same boat, had i5 2500k at 4.9ghz with 2x970 also both overclocked 1530mhz core, games like witcher 3 and tombraider didnt had much problems few fps hiccups in certain places but that is normal, where a lack a cpu power was in bf3 or bf4 when playing 64 maps, cpu usage always close to 90%+ on all cores and could maintain stable 120fps for use with my 1080 144mhz monitor, with all settings maxed out! This was a shout for cpu upgrade, picked i7 2700k from ebay, overclocked it to 5ghz and voila, seems all my problems was sorted out 140+ fps with no huge drops. Then I upgraded to 980sli and you are in same boat again, cpu lacks a power to squize all out of both cards, ofcorse I still was playing bf4 and bfh with maxed out setting with average fps over 140+ fps but once I increased resolution scale i was expierenced same problems, my cpu usege was over 90%+ on all 8 cores and had some bad fps drops over different maps, i could be due to drivers too but most likely cpu bottlenecking. This was the final straw for my so i decide to upgrade my cpu but this time i went for 5820k as it were at good price and will last a good coulpe years too. Still same games same settings just cpu upgrade from i7 2700k 5ghz to 5820k 4.2ghz and ram from 8gb 1600mhz to 3200mhz 16gb, cpu usage around 40-50% around all cores and fps went up for another 20+fps in total i dint notice any diference in wither or both tombraiders, only at built in benchmark ive scored few fps more with new cpu but in game you cant really notice it, only in multiplayer where it puts real stress on both cpu and gpu, only thing at bf1 alfa where my sli didnt work properly and gave me less fps then with single 980. if you going for multi gpu setup with such high sli setup with 980ti i would recommend you also upgrading your cpu as any 2nd gen will bottleneck them, maybe not everywhere but in some cases very hard. When I made my upgrade ddr4 was very expensive and upgrading from 1155 to 2011 wasnt that cheap, but now if you sell you old setup for good money the complete upgreda wount be that expensive as you think and in my opinion well worht!

Blimey - that text is densely packed and hard to read. Have you never heard of paragraphs? :confused:

Economies of scale? They buy bulk direct from the manufacturer of each component and decide on the margin they want to make on resale.. This is how retailers work. They are not buying from ebuyer haha.

haha - always good to see lots of ppl with similar spec all in one place confirming it is still good for a while. Another i7 2600k owner here :smiley: Bumped up to 16GB and a 1TB SSD recently for Windows 10, so I suspect my graphics card will be the item to upgrade - currently 2GB GTX670 OC Windforce 3X

Core components must now be pushing 4 years old, so pretty good going :smiley:

I want a sandwich. Cheese.

And there are speling mistakes.

Let's all go back to school.

and pass exams before we can post on here,

pathetic price imo

with the 2700k might be the case that it comes to the point were the pci2 lanes might not be good enough with
gtx980ti sli. A pci3 lane would double the bandwith. Must buy 2xgtx1080 to test how they will behave with my multiple sytems.

Links to cheaper please? :smiley:

nice ty

How good is this deal?

I was planning to wait a year to upgrade my i5 but if this is about as good a deal as you'd get at anytime, I might buy it now. So buy or wait?

who buys such a expensive set and cares about stupid £20?

I can understand if that would be worth £500 and someone would find it for ie. £400

Good deal but only had my rig for 9 months so can't justify a total upgrade yet xD

I run a i5 6600k, 16GB DDR4, GTX960 4GB, any advice on how to futureproof my pc a little? Make it suitable for the upcoming 2017 games perhaps

just built my new rig with these components, running a 1070gtx and the machine is a beast!

Tje bandwidth isnt limiter in this case and ypu could only see a real diference btw pci2 and 3 in multi gpu setup 3+ at same time. ​I had GA-Z68XP-UD4 rev 1.3 which supports pci3 bandwidth, but cpu is just to weak to handle such oint of data, also all cores being nearly fully utilized, slows the comunication with gpu.
Thats why you have overal lower fps and pfs drops when cpu usage spikes to max load.

2500K here, I'm in the same boat :disappointed:

I'll sell you a hexacore AMD processor and motherboard for this price if you want.

GPU 100%

What DDR4 memory make do they sell this bundle with? Can't seem to find any info...

Do you mean in comparison with how much the CPU and Motherboard cost from Amazon? Don't forget that price isn't including the CPU cooler. Also it's pre-assembled so people don't have to worry about bending socket pins, damaging the motherboard, or having issues installing the heatsink, etc.

And if you include ram (which is already cheaper or as cheap as competitors) and they'll pre-overclock it for you as well.

My current rig is an I5-2500k, 7850 HD, P8-Z68 Pro Gen3 Motherboard, 16gb ram (think DDR3)
Would this be a big jump for gaming? (Was going to get an RX 480 soon, would my current cpu really bottleneck it)?

I want a Nissan GTR for the price of a Micra.

Sorry, I thought we were trading stupid and pointless comments.

all relative to settings really. I had a 2500k overclocked for years, running with an old matrox cad based card before going to an 8800gtx (iirc), didnt really struggle with anything at medium settings, but anything High / ultra was an issue, this is before the whole HD revolution too.

I imagine a newer machine will run the same games much nicer than your existing setup, always been told motherboard - cpu - hdd are the most important features to build on.

Har har! And whoosh!

You missed the point entirely! That wasn't a comment about grammar. It was about readability. The odd smelling pistake doesn't make a block of text unreadable, but I bet I'm not the only one who can't be arsed to read through that large dense block of text.

There's not much point in typing large amounts if it's done in a way that puts people off reading it.

GPU.. GTX1070 would suit

If you've OCed that 2500k adequately (4Ghz+), you'll have no problems running the vast majority of games at high with a new GPU. I've still got my i7-2600K with my old Radeon 6950, and have no plans of upgrading my CPU, just need a new GPU!

Futureproof is an impossible word. You can't futureproof anything. Anyway to answer your question the weakest part of your system for gaming is the GPU. If you have a 1080P or 1440P monitor then a GTX1070 is a sensible upgrade, you can grumble about the cost but currently AMD don't have any high end competitive cards out,I know it's a bit of a sweeping statement but in general it's true. So the GTX1070 is a decent upgrade, it gives you performance for £350-£450 that AMD can't touch until next year give or take one game which is DOOM and something like a Fury X. Anyway I digress, the GTX1070 is a sensible upgrade. Your CPU some could argue is also a weak point of the system in terms of the future, but to pick one upgrade now for gaming it's the GPU.

RX480 is a logical upgrade especially if you plan to run DOOM, the CPU can be overclocked, there was a jump in performance between Sandybridge to Ivybridge, after that you need Broadwell-E to make any significant performance gains, Haswell and especially Skylake are more about introducing some new technologies and power consumption savings, the lack of competition from AMD for the past 10 years has seen Intel stagnate on performance.

I had similar issue with my i7-2600 and msi z68 mobo. 2 banks suddenly stopped working (bsod with 4 memory sticks in, stable with 2).I solved the problem by simply refitting heat sink and reapplying thermal paste.

link dead

wheres the socket that allows me to join 5 of these together with quad sli on each.... and you guessed it, i'll be playing lemmings and web browsing....... :smile:

So out of the loop with PC gaming which make it pretty daunting now, if I wanted to build a machine how much would I need to spend to get something playing the newest games on the best settings?

Keep in mind Battlefield 1 still isn't finished without any functioning DX12 support.

There are a new range of processors out very soon "Kaby Lake" so will most likely be worth waiting for them as I am in exactly the same boat as you but with a 1080.

I currently have an i5-4670k. Would there be any point upgrading to this? I manily use my computer for video editing using After Effects

​not really worth upgrading, haswell chips are still pretty recent and no real significant performance changes

​actually what am I saying, this is hukd. of course you should upgrade buy this bundle before theyre oos

Talking yourself out of an upgrade is a good financial habit to have :smiley:

​Selective quoting? What is this, a tabloid newspaper? As I explained in my post, an Intel hexacore and similar spec mobo have been around this price previously. Granted this is prebuilt, I was just expressing an opinion about the value proposition of this combo (especially given how old the CPU is now).

Please accept my humble apologies for not making my position entirely clear. I obviously deserved a derogatory response.

Been few years since I built my last PC. If I buy this then what sort of PSU will I need and what mid-range GPU ? I don't really play any games, just photoshop and normal day to day computer work.

The GPU is the main deciding factor for required PSU. Be sure to buy a quality PSU which is 80plus rated (Bronze, SIlver, Gold, Platinum or Titanium) from a decent manufacturer (Seasonic, SuperFlower, etc). A mid-range GPU may be overkill if you are not gaming at all.

Socket 1151 not 1150 :wink:

Over clocked??

​No. If your workload exceeds the capability of your existing system then you need to move to an X99 Socket 2011 based system.

Yup 6 core is the way to go if you are doing a lot of encoding. At gaming my 5820K OC'ed is not much different than a 6700K OC'ed but switch to encoding or heavy CPU applications and it will destroy the Skylakes.

After lots of hesitation and trying to justify the upgrade - went for it and yesterday ordered the last one priced at £419. Today the price has gone up to £443.99 - which is still a good deal IMHO as it comes with the CPU cooler (~£30)

Will be quite a difference as I am upgrading from Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz (released in 2008) and based on cpubenchmark it is about 5 times slower compared to 6700k :smiley:

ASUS :confused:

Nice find and heat added. Always keep an eye on new CPU and mobo deals thinking I must upgrade sometime. Then I see on here how many still use 2500k for gaming and still happy , which has talked me out of it again! My 2500k is oc and runs fine on an arctic freezer although keep thinking I should updrade my hd7950 if anything especially as battlefield addict. :smiley:

The vast majority of games still don't scale well beyond 4 threads, but the few ones that do, i7 will make a massive difference if you're CPU bottlenecked, yes.

443.99 now

It seems that the price is now 443.99pounds...

How you getting on with this, I am looking at upgrading my 2500k now (come to my senses) and thinking still this deal or looking at the 6600k.
Gone up to £444 but still not bad to be honest, pre built.