Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this. I'm not a regular on this forum and I'm afraid I only really use it when I have problems. If this is not the right place for my post, feel free to move it.
For a major birthday, back in 2010 I got a shiny new Asus P6X58D-E Skt 1366/Intel Core i7930 2.80 GHz clocked to 4.00 GHz by OcUK with 3 x 2Gb DDR3 RAM @ 1600MHz. Over the last few years, the clock started to fail and I now run it at standard speeds. However, I think the SATA 6Gb chip has now also failed so my SATA drives are now connected to the regular SATA 3Gb connectors and the difference is noticeable. My PC is running at a snails pace now and I think it's just feeling very tired and I need an upgrade.
It's been a while since I did a major upgrade and I don't want to spend thousands. I'm hoping that most of my existing components will fit a new setup. I have a 120Gb SATA 6Gb SSD and a 1Tb SATA 6Gb HDD. I use onboard sound and have a dual monitor setup. My graphics card is a PCI-e 2.0 GeForce GTX 750Ti, not sure how much memory it has. The one component that I'm not sure if it's up to a modern day motherboard setups is my PSU. I have an OCZ ModXStream 700W Modular PSU, but no idea if that's either compatible with today's systems or man enough for them.
As I said, I'm not really much of a gamer these days but I like a fast PC. I'm looking for a bit of advice on a decent mobo / CPU / RAM bundle that will give me a decent setup but not for stupid money. I prefer Intel but am a bit out of touch with what's worth getting these days. I will also take all advice about what, if anything else I need to consider upgrading, i.e. the PSU. If I can avoid it though, I'd rather do that and save a bit of money.
All replies much appreciated.
Thanks,
Kev
For a major birthday, back in 2010 I got a shiny new Asus P6X58D-E Skt 1366/Intel Core i7930 2.80 GHz clocked to 4.00 GHz by OcUK with 3 x 2Gb DDR3 RAM @ 1600MHz. Over the last few years, the clock started to fail and I now run it at standard speeds. However, I think the SATA 6Gb chip has now also failed so my SATA drives are now connected to the regular SATA 3Gb connectors and the difference is noticeable. My PC is running at a snails pace now and I think it's just feeling very tired and I need an upgrade.
It's been a while since I did a major upgrade and I don't want to spend thousands. I'm hoping that most of my existing components will fit a new setup. I have a 120Gb SATA 6Gb SSD and a 1Tb SATA 6Gb HDD. I use onboard sound and have a dual monitor setup. My graphics card is a PCI-e 2.0 GeForce GTX 750Ti, not sure how much memory it has. The one component that I'm not sure if it's up to a modern day motherboard setups is my PSU. I have an OCZ ModXStream 700W Modular PSU, but no idea if that's either compatible with today's systems or man enough for them.
As I said, I'm not really much of a gamer these days but I like a fast PC. I'm looking for a bit of advice on a decent mobo / CPU / RAM bundle that will give me a decent setup but not for stupid money. I prefer Intel but am a bit out of touch with what's worth getting these days. I will also take all advice about what, if anything else I need to consider upgrading, i.e. the PSU. If I can avoid it though, I'd rather do that and save a bit of money.
All replies much appreciated.
Thanks,
Kev