All,
Been out of the scene way too long, and need some advise..
Currently run some i7 920 with a reasonably poor motherboard, oldish PSU (Jeantech 700W), can't even remember what ram, and a 560Ti.
Lately have had a few issues with stability, I have no interest in troubleshooting as the motherboard has always been questionable, so would like to take the opportunity to upgrade.
I have:
Case, monitor, ssd, hard-drives, and a new AMD 7970.
I need:
CPU: i5/i7 Haswell?
Motherboard: Z87? I need one with 10 SATA ports ideally, or if those ones are rubbish then an expansion card or something.
CPU Cooler: Quiet
PSU: Quiet/modular
RAM: 8GB I think is enough?
Components need to be able to O/C to 4+ without too much bother, if this is realistic.
Based upon recommendations I'm literally going to order all of this today.
Thanks in advance.
Alex
Been out of the scene way too long, and need some advise..
Currently run some i7 920 with a reasonably poor motherboard, oldish PSU (Jeantech 700W), can't even remember what ram, and a 560Ti.
Lately have had a few issues with stability, I have no interest in troubleshooting as the motherboard has always been questionable, so would like to take the opportunity to upgrade.
I have:
Case, monitor, ssd, hard-drives, and a new AMD 7970.
I need:
CPU: i5/i7 Haswell?
Motherboard: Z87? I need one with 10 SATA ports ideally, or if those ones are rubbish then an expansion card or something.
CPU Cooler: Quiet
PSU: Quiet/modular
RAM: 8GB I think is enough?
Components need to be able to O/C to 4+ without too much bother, if this is realistic.
Based upon recommendations I'm literally going to order all of this today.
Thanks in advance.
Alex