- Nov 18, 2010
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need help in upgrading my system
Currently my system does everything i need... however im getting the upgrade itch.
Im based in the us
My Current system is:
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R /w icore 7 920 (overclocked to 4.0ghz and has a Thermaltake Spin2 cpu cooler)
12gb (6x 2gb DDR3 1600) Kingston Hyperx
XFX r9 290x 4gb (factory overclocked)
Corsair Carbine 500r case
X-Fi Pro Fatality soundcard (pci)
Ocz ModXtream 700
windows 8.1
ocz 128gb ssd (os)
intel 180gb ssd (games)
2x segate 2tb drives
4x segate 2tb drives in an external rosewill case (connected via estata to 2x esata raid card)
I mostly use this system to game with (mainly wow/hearthstone) and watch videos. from time to time i also run virtual machines
the only issue i have with the machine is that it BSOD when im on youtube, I watch hulu, animes and do tons of hours of gaming, but when i do youtube, it crashes (irq equals less then 0)
next paycheck i will have $300 to play with.
Here is what i was thinking of for upgrades (using used parts).
Just upgrade the processor and cpu cooler to
xeon w3690 ($200) and a corsair h100 ($100) cooler
or
X8DTi-F supermicro dual socket 1366 motherboard ($160) 2x xeon x5650 ($160) (i have 6x 1gb sticks of ddr3 ecc reg, but would upgrade later to 2 or 4gb sticks fully populated)
or
amd 8350 ($150) motherboard $100 ish and 8gb memory (later expanding to 16gb)
will the xeons systems slow down the videocard performance? or should i just go with newer parts? or is there somthing better for me?
Currently my system does everything i need... however im getting the upgrade itch.
Im based in the us
My Current system is:
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R /w icore 7 920 (overclocked to 4.0ghz and has a Thermaltake Spin2 cpu cooler)
12gb (6x 2gb DDR3 1600) Kingston Hyperx
XFX r9 290x 4gb (factory overclocked)
Corsair Carbine 500r case
X-Fi Pro Fatality soundcard (pci)
Ocz ModXtream 700
windows 8.1
ocz 128gb ssd (os)
intel 180gb ssd (games)
2x segate 2tb drives
4x segate 2tb drives in an external rosewill case (connected via estata to 2x esata raid card)
I mostly use this system to game with (mainly wow/hearthstone) and watch videos. from time to time i also run virtual machines
the only issue i have with the machine is that it BSOD when im on youtube, I watch hulu, animes and do tons of hours of gaming, but when i do youtube, it crashes (irq equals less then 0)
next paycheck i will have $300 to play with.
Here is what i was thinking of for upgrades (using used parts).
Just upgrade the processor and cpu cooler to
xeon w3690 ($200) and a corsair h100 ($100) cooler
or
X8DTi-F supermicro dual socket 1366 motherboard ($160) 2x xeon x5650 ($160) (i have 6x 1gb sticks of ddr3 ecc reg, but would upgrade later to 2 or 4gb sticks fully populated)
or
amd 8350 ($150) motherboard $100 ish and 8gb memory (later expanding to 16gb)
will the xeons systems slow down the videocard performance? or should i just go with newer parts? or is there somthing better for me?
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