Any Possibility of an upgrade

JamieMOCUK · 24 May 2016 at 17:16

I made this Post in the wrong section before posting here (I believe), I couldn't work out how to message a moderator to move it, or how to delete the old one.

Brought system Nov 2012, one of my Corsair H100 Radiator fans died last night (Cooling with just one at the moment).

Can I realistically get any improvement over what I, I already have a GTX 980 Ti, so I don't need Graphics. I already have peripherals and monitors.

Current Setup:
CPU: i7 3930K
Ram: Corsair Dominator 16GB (8x4GB) PC3-14900C9 1866MHz (32GB)
MotherBoard: Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79
Main Boot: Raid 0 2x OCZ Vertex 4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbs Solid State Hard Drive
Storage HDD: Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA
Cooling:Corsair Hydro H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (50% Dead)
PSU:Silverstone Strider Plus 750W Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply

I'm not too bothered about budget, that being said less then £3,000 would be nice. Whilst I've never overclocked (I'm not opposed to it so long as its easy to do.)

Usages: Moderate Gaming, Tripple/Quad Monitor, Programming, some times Virtual Machines. Most often all at the same time.

ExRayTed · 24 May 2016 at 17:45

In all honesty you'll not see any real improvement by upgrading. Do you have any performance issues right now with any games/software?

JamieMOCUK · 24 May 2016 at 18:12

ExRayTed said:
In all honesty you'll not see any real improvement by upgrading. Do you have any performance issues right now with any games/software?

I guess some fps drop when its busy (to be expected)... but more then anything I hate the load times I get with Visual Studio / some games. It's all probably related to the storage, one thing I was hoping to get was the Intel 750 series PCI-e SSD... but that's sounding like I wouldn't even notice that too.

pastymuncher · 24 May 2016 at 18:48

Is your cpu overclocked? If not then doing so will give you some extra grunt.

setter · 24 May 2016 at 18:53

JamieMOCUK said:
I made this Post in the wrong section before posting here (I believe), I couldn't work out how to message a moderator to move it, or how to delete the old one.

Ive closed your other thread in systems and bundles as youve asked.. setter.

JamieMOCUK · 25 May 2016 at 01:17

setter said:
Ive closed your other thread in systems and bundles as youve asked.. setter.

Thanks, much appreciated.

pastymuncher said:
Is your cpu overclocked? If not then doing so will give you some extra grunt.

Yea don't think It's overclocked, I mean in the system properties I the following

Prossor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.60 GHz

Weather that means it's overclocked or not I don't know as I don't recall ever changing any settings (and I've reset bios a few times over years.

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Well I feel slightly disappointed that there's not really been much progression/improvement in the 3 or so years, (I mean I just assumed Moore's Law was somewhat still active; however I wasn't sure if it would directly apply as I think it does...)

Cheers, I'll check back over the next few days to see if anyone has anything to input.

Angilion · 25 May 2016 at 03:41

JamieMOCUK said:
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Yea don't think It's overclocked, I mean in the system properties I the following

Prossor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.60 GHz

Weather that means it's overclocked or not I don't know as I don't recall ever changing any settings (and I've reset bios a few times over years.

It doesn't tell you either way. The first is the stock speed. The second is, as far as I know, the current bus speed multiplied by the maximum multiplier. The key point is that neither is the actual clock speed. For example, my CPU is a Core 2 Quad 6600 which I've overclocked to 3.2GHz (8x400). System properties shows it as 2.4GHz (the stock speed) and 3.6GHz (maximum multiplier is 9, 9x400 = 3600).