A bit of back story.
Been having problems the last few weeks. The PC was randomly restarting due to critical kernel-power 41 (63). Happening ALL the time. This eventually killed off my GFX card and one of my SSDs!! The RAM slots have errors.
I installed brand new windows, still restarts, linux, still restarts. I've bought a new better PSU, still restarts. Has a new GFX card in the moment a crappy cheap one, still restarts. All the RAM doesn't show up, even in BIOS. I put just 1 slot at a time, and in some and it won't boot. One stick in a certain slot and it will boot. Still randomly reboots with that error! Been fine for 4 years just recently started happening
So I think it is time just to update.
Current PC
Intel Core i7 950
Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58
Corsair XMS3 12GB DDR3 1600MHz (6 x 2GBs)
ATI Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5
Used for a few games, WoW, COD, BF3. Few VMs etc
Looking at;
Asus Z97
Intel Core i5 4690K
Kingston Hyper X 8GB 2133Mhz
GeForce GTX 750Ti "Low Profile" 2048MB GDDR5
Comes in at £504
(think I'd prefer to go back to nVidia too!)
Have decent Evo 840 SSD, decent PSU etc.
What do people think??
Thanks!
Been having problems the last few weeks. The PC was randomly restarting due to critical kernel-power 41 (63). Happening ALL the time. This eventually killed off my GFX card and one of my SSDs!! The RAM slots have errors.
I installed brand new windows, still restarts, linux, still restarts. I've bought a new better PSU, still restarts. Has a new GFX card in the moment a crappy cheap one, still restarts. All the RAM doesn't show up, even in BIOS. I put just 1 slot at a time, and in some and it won't boot. One stick in a certain slot and it will boot. Still randomly reboots with that error! Been fine for 4 years just recently started happening
So I think it is time just to update.
Current PC
Intel Core i7 950
Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58
Corsair XMS3 12GB DDR3 1600MHz (6 x 2GBs)
ATI Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5
Used for a few games, WoW, COD, BF3. Few VMs etc
Looking at;
Asus Z97
Intel Core i5 4690K
Kingston Hyper X 8GB 2133Mhz
GeForce GTX 750Ti "Low Profile" 2048MB GDDR5
Comes in at £504
(think I'd prefer to go back to nVidia too!)
Have decent Evo 840 SSD, decent PSU etc.
What do people think??
Thanks!
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