Upgrading Motherboard. Rate My Choice?

[Deagonx]

I'm looking into replacing my motherboard and CPU. I had money saved up to get a new CPU but my 2009 computer had an LGA 775 socket. =.=

Anyways, I was looking online for something that would do me good for a while.

It uses LGA 1366, here is the newegg link for it.

Newegg.com - ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer "Ultimate Gamer" choose 3Way SLI + PhysX at Real X16 X58 CEB Intel Motherboard Gamer

Now, assuming that is a pretty decent motherboard, can someone suggest a good processor within a budget of 200 dollars?

Regards, Deagonx

 

[niiko101]

you can save your self a lot of money by going with LGA 1155, 1136 will be dead once the new relase of LGA2011 comes out early next year.

 

[Deagonx]

Hows this one?

Newegg.com - ASUS MAXIMUS IV EXTREME (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard

 

[niiko101]

if you can afford it and, or really need a motherboard that expensive then i say why not, but if you dont really need it then i dont see why, personally i would go with
Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD7-B3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard over the asus board, just because of how much copper is in it and its a true 24 phase power design and another selling point for it is it has the nf200 chipset onboard.
but if you want something even cheaper, with s 20 phase power design and no nf200 but it is the z68 chipset
Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD5 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

 

[Deagonx]

I'm going to be saving up big time for what I want.

So I'm going for the first one. I found a fantastic CPU for 1155. How does this look?

Newegg.com - Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623I72600K

 

[niiko101]

yup, its a good combo

 

[Deagonx]

Thank you!

EDIT: I also have an ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card.


Will my 500 WATT power supply be able to hold up all this?

 

[niiko101]

500watt power supply might be pushing it to power all of this

 

[bullzi]

What brand and spec is your power supply? I kind of agree here, 500 may be pushing it depending on what it is.

 

[Deagonx]

So spring for a 600 for save measure?

Also, it's not a 500 I found out. Opened up the tower and it's this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153023