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Hi All,
Just to put you all in the picture, around 2 months ago I purchased a second hand Alienware Aurora R4 with the following specification:
i7-3820 @ 3.60GHz
16GB DDR3
Dell/Alienware Motherboard (07JNH0)
AMD Radeon HD7870
Alienware Water Cooling
This is my first look into the world of PC gaming although I have always been a console gamer. Having played a couple of titles on the R4 I soon started to realise how good the graphics on a PC could be compared to a console and I got the itch to start upgrading the system.
Fast forward a couple of months and Santa kindly brought me a Radeon RX480 (8GB) which I installed and have to say made a huge difference to game play. I then started to get a little annoyed by the size, weight and noise of the Aurora case, it just stat under my desk taking up space and I couldn't really show it off! So, yesterday I purchased a Corsair Spec-Alpha case (Red and Black), Corsair H80i V2 water cooling unit and a Corsair CX750M power supply.
Fast forward another couple of hours and I have dismantled the R4 and rebuilt it again into the new case and fitted the new water cooler and PSU........brilliant.........well, it would be but I am having a few small issues and I believe it may all centre around the Motherboard.
So, finally to the point - I would like to upgrade the motherboard which I believe will probably mean I need to upgrade the CPU and Memory as well? I am not a full time / huge gamer so I haven't got to have the most expensive/latest equipment but would like to improve on what I already have. I do know my way around a PC but start getting a little lost when it comes i3, i5 and i7 processors and whether, for example, a modern i3 processor could potentially be better then my current i7.
Any advice would be much appreciated to help me upgrade.
Many thanks
James
Just to put you all in the picture, around 2 months ago I purchased a second hand Alienware Aurora R4 with the following specification:
i7-3820 @ 3.60GHz
16GB DDR3
Dell/Alienware Motherboard (07JNH0)
AMD Radeon HD7870
Alienware Water Cooling
This is my first look into the world of PC gaming although I have always been a console gamer. Having played a couple of titles on the R4 I soon started to realise how good the graphics on a PC could be compared to a console and I got the itch to start upgrading the system.
Fast forward a couple of months and Santa kindly brought me a Radeon RX480 (8GB) which I installed and have to say made a huge difference to game play. I then started to get a little annoyed by the size, weight and noise of the Aurora case, it just stat under my desk taking up space and I couldn't really show it off! So, yesterday I purchased a Corsair Spec-Alpha case (Red and Black), Corsair H80i V2 water cooling unit and a Corsair CX750M power supply.
Fast forward another couple of hours and I have dismantled the R4 and rebuilt it again into the new case and fitted the new water cooler and PSU........brilliant.........well, it would be but I am having a few small issues and I believe it may all centre around the Motherboard.
So, finally to the point - I would like to upgrade the motherboard which I believe will probably mean I need to upgrade the CPU and Memory as well? I am not a full time / huge gamer so I haven't got to have the most expensive/latest equipment but would like to improve on what I already have. I do know my way around a PC but start getting a little lost when it comes i3, i5 and i7 processors and whether, for example, a modern i3 processor could potentially be better then my current i7.
Any advice would be much appreciated to help me upgrade.
Many thanks
James