Computer upgrade

Dickyb0b · 16 Jul 2013 at 11:06

Current pc

CPU: Intel Core 15 750
CPU COOLING: Intel fan that came with cpu
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte Technology P55-US3L
PSU: Cosair TX (650W)
VIDEO CARD: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
MEMORY: 4GB Corsair Single Channel DDR3
CASE: AMD Athlon X2
HDD: Maxitor 80 GIGS
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

New pc i am building

CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K
CPU COOLING: Corsair H80 Liquid CPU Cooler
MOTHERBOARD: Asus Sabertooth Z77
PSU: XFX P1-850B-NLG9 (850W)
VIDEO CARD: Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce SLI
MEMORY: 16GB Corsair Vengeance Dual Channel DDR3
CASE: NZXT Phantom 410
SSD: 128GB Crucial M4
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

How much diferent in performace will i see in gaming?,I am hoping for good fps in

DayZ
Arma 3
Fifa 13
Pes 2013
Battlefield 3

Dickyb0b · 16 Jul 2013 at 18:41

Ive got a question on this Corsair H80 Liquid CPU Cooler
Are you suppose to refill the liquid?

Thanks for the input as well guys

Dickyb0b · 17 Jul 2013 at 12:03

I cannot seem to get this pc to post boot after I press the power switch,i have all the wires in correctly,the motherboard light shows green,the cmos jumper is set to normal to, I dont know what the problem is

Dickyb0b · 17 Jul 2013 at 12:56

I have made progess,i put 1 (6 pin connector and 1 (8 pin connector in to the card slots, at that point I couldn't even get a screen up telling me the problem,i took out the (8 pin connector and now I get a message up saying on screen saying please connect the correct wires and I see a red light next to the gfx card,which indicates something is wrong here, ok so this is what I have, I have 1 pci-e wire that is connected to the psu and then I have 2 wires that fit in to the psu to the gfx card, on the gfx card there is 1 (6 pin slot and 1 (8 pin slot, so I am unsure which wires to put in the gfx card,the document I got with the card dosent show much at all,thanks for the quick reply btw

Dickyb0b · 17 Jul 2013 at 14:45

yeh I have that problem sorted now, I was forgetting to plug in the 2 little wires that was apart from the 6 pins

, I thought they were spares or something,anyway I have bios up now the problem is getting a windows 7 os to boot up and install, I have set the boot option to the dvdrom drive and when I save in bios and reset,i get an error message up saying no bootable device found,this a brand new bought version of windows 7 unregistered..there is something in bios which lets you select IDE,RAID,AHCI,when I selected IDE the dvdrom device appears in the list and if I select AHCI it dosent appear???,the drive is connected by sata to so I don't understand this part...

Dickyb0b · 17 Jul 2013 at 17:11

I am seeing the grey windows loading bar then its taking me to an error screen,i cant remember what it says but il try a simualer pic on google about the message

Here is the message I get

This happens straight after it firsts boot from cd and the first loading bar completes,it might not be the exact text but I cant tell this is the error screen.

These are the sata sockets on the motherboard
intel z77 serial ATA 6gbs connectors 7 pin SATA6G 1/2[brown]
intel z77 serial ATA 3gbs connectors 7 pin SATA3G 3-6[black] x2
ASmedia serial ATA 6gbs connectors 7-pin stata3g e1/e2[gray]

The SDD drive is connected to the intel z77 6gbs socket
The Dvdrom drive is connected to intel z77 3gbs socket

The bios is setting to AHCI and I see the SSD and DVDR DRIVE on the list
I cannot seem to select in bios boot menu to boot from the dvdrom drive as there is nothing to tell me how todo it, I just see something like

P1 SDD
p2 DVDROM

but I can change it if I press f8 on post screen and there I can select what to boot from

(edit)
I am going to get a usb stick and install it that way now that I know how todo it

Dickyb0b · 17 Jul 2013 at 22:21

Got windows installed by using a usb flash stick,cant believe how fast it boots in to windows,i counted 10 seconds

windows rated my system as 7.7

Dickyb0b · 18 Jul 2013 at 21:55

Hmm I cannot understand why fifa 13 is getting stuck at the intro logo screen,this was happening on the other pc to,how can the same problem happen on a diferent pc,its a fresh install of origin to.

Dickyb0b · 19 Jul 2013 at 19:32

Right now I have the intel heatsink that came with the cpu cooling the cpu, I have an Corsair H80 Liquid CPU Cooler not opened yet,should I install this,will I see a diference in computers performace in gaming?,what should I do?

Dickyb0b · 19 Jul 2013 at 19:41

I don't fancy oveclocking

Dickyb0b · 19 Jul 2013 at 21:39

Got the cooler fitted,now lets see if there is a diference

I don't understand how it cools the cpu if the fans are not on top of it,are they blowing air through those tubes?

Dickyb0b · 20 Jul 2013 at 11:18

Rainagul said:
So you bought all this new stuff with no idea how it works?

The H80 is a watercooler. The fan blows cool air down into the radiator which is connected to a water cooling loop. (aka water running through the tubes)

I sort of had an idea how it works,so how come this water dosent evaporate due to the heat?