All my upgrades requires the change of processor, mobo and RAM. It's nothing new. I'm pretty sure the number of pins will bottleneck when there are too many cores.

C-Zone already has Asus and Gigabyte motherboard prices for H67 and P67 chipset.

Processor:


Motherboard:


As I expected, the pricing is higher.

This post has been edited by TristanX: Dec 11 2010, 07:31 PM

Should be H67 chipset based. If you see H67 in the product model, that's the one you are looking for.

But for people who haven't upgraded (dual core/478/775). Especially those who wants crossfire or SLI ready. It's worth it for them. Pay 10% more for 10% improvement. Why not?

Now we just need lower price motherboards to drive the price down. It will take some time though.

This post has been edited by TristanX: Dec 14 2010, 02:54 AM

Some processor prices are out for C-Zone.

Core i3 2300 - RM585
Core i5 2400 - RM609
Core i7 2600 - RM939

Maybe RM70-100 more. That will depend on retail price.

I'm not sure which board yet as the websites for it is not available. Gigabyte H67MA-UD2H is at RM449 and Asus P8H67-M is at RM439 from C-Zone but it's not printed VSGL.

Depends. If you are upgrading from Socket 478 or LGA775 dual core or AMD dual core, it's worth it.

It's from C-Zone price list.

Core i5 2400 temperatures with stock cooling.



Looks good for stock cooler.

This post has been edited by TristanX: Jan 2 2011, 02:52 PM

Why settle for second grade performance when you can get better? Especially when you have the budget. My Q9450 lasted me 2 1/2 year and still kicking while I see plenty of people recommending dual core at the time I buy it. I've been using computer for more than 20 years. Changing processor, mobo and RAM is nothing new for me.

Been maxing out games without the need of overclocking at 1920x1080 except for games that is made by fail programmers like Crysis and Metro 2003. My graphic card will need an upgrade though. It has no DirectX 11. I will only touch that when I have games that I will play.

Right now, i5 2500K is worth buying for people who wanna upgrade from dual core or slow processor. I will also go for that if my current setup has hardware defect.

AMD? Sorry, I don't wanna settle for low class performance. I use my PC for everything, not just for gaming.

This post has been edited by TristanX: Jan 7 2011, 07:02 PM

Not just 1090T, even 1100T gets smoked by i5 2500k at cheaper price. ROFL

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/203?vs=288

Count the wins.

i7 2600k is around RM1k and i5 2500k is around RM700.

More than enough for 1920x1080. Processor is not just for gaming too. They also improve other things.

If you haven't realize, they send it to OEMs for further testing but they also couldn't find out about this problem. Both OEMs and Intel are to be blamed. Not just Intel.

This also reminds me of 820 chipset bug where everyone missed the RAM bug long time ago.

There is also another workaround. Buy SATA RAID cards and use it if you can't wait for warranty when the replacement motherboards are ready.

The problem only affects SATA port 2 to 5. SATA 0 and 1 is not affected. If you don't use a lot of hard disks, u are fine. Go read this again.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-d...t-begins-recall

I know how you feel. You can stuff the optical drive to port 2-5 since many dont use it too often.

Heh, nice one. My friend is using P67A-UD3. He's happy hearing that from Gigabyte.

Intel is paying the bills. I think others will follow as other brands wants to keep their reputation too.

I'm pretty sure Gigabyte will have Revision number on the board. The latest stepping should be the latest Revision. Just visit their website to find out.