tweakboy
Diamond Member
Why you want to sidegrade my friend. Save up for Haswell E ... now your dealling with 8 to 12 cores beast it is.
Recently bought a new video card the GTX 970. Sold the 290x air cooled card to my roommate and have a second 290x water-cooled paired to a under powered G3258 over clocked to 4 Ghz. (using stock cooler still). Might swap it my 4770k into that case this week.
I am debating moving the G3258 to just Plex house server duty for all our computers. Under clock/volt etc and use onboard for the once a month time I wanna use it for surfing.
So I would have an empty R4 case, 290x or 970 video card to use and a 900 watt spare PSU. Also a 240mm rad, newish water pump and a universal GPU block. I cannot move back the 290x to air because I lost the screws moving to my new house.
Rant over..
Current system is Intel i7 4770k running at 4.4 Ghz with a Corsair h75. I can use either video card with it. All in a somewhat small Corsair Air 240 (love smaller cases)
I always wanted to get an X99/X58 when that was a new system. Logic tells me this is stupid and a waste of money but would be fun. Buying computer parts is my only "bad" habit.
Dont worry my friend theres plenty peeps here with your condition. You have a little COCD .... Computer Obsessive compulsive disorder. .
thank you
Eyeing up a 5820k and pairing it with the 970 for a month or two then getting a second GPU/faster one down the road.
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