New rig - upgrade

Toms88 · 14 Jul 2011 at 18:57

Hi all

I finally decided on what to upgrade to today and placed an order for -

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 Game
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM
Asus P67 Sabertooth Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION **
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9)
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3)

Im upgrading from a currently dead (randomly blue screens and is quite unstable) Core2Duo 2.66Ghz 2GB OCZ Ram and an ATi HD2900XT. Fingers crossed this should be quite an upgrade. The hdd, case and drives will remain the same though. Will i have an problems with windows 7 detecting a new mobo + processor + graphics card? I assume i should un-install the ati drivers before i make the swap?

Jony27 · 14 Jul 2011 at 19:11

do a fresh install of Win7

Toms88 · 14 Jul 2011 at 19:17

Is that my only option? Its a massive pain to back everything up.....

Moothead2 · 14 Jul 2011 at 19:22

If you don't want to do a complete reinstall then just before you power down to start building enter windows in safe mode and run Driver Sweeper and completely remove all drivers currently installed.

Toms88 · 14 Jul 2011 at 23:42

Cool, thanks for the tips guys.

Will a Corsair 550Watt Modular PSU be enough for this system?

Jony27 · 15 Jul 2011 at 00:00

most likely depending on how old it is

Jasonst888 · 15 Jul 2011 at 00:06

even doing the full driver sweep you will very likely have a far more unstable system unless you just fully reinstall windows 7.

Toms88 · 15 Jul 2011 at 00:07

It's about 2years old. I'm planning on an over clock of around 3.8ghz so nothing major

Philtor · 15 Jul 2011 at 00:22

With such a drastic change in hardware you really need to do a clean install or face running into problems later on down the line.

Quadcore14 · 15 Jul 2011 at 00:36

Do a fresh install when every you change major components. Well that is what I do at least. I would highly recommend a ssd of any sort just for OS as it makes any pc (980x or C2D) feel 500% faster.

Toms88 · 15 Jul 2011 at 17:42

Ive got SSD on the next shopping list, so until then i should be able to just wipe the drivers and carry on as i am until i get the SSD?

Everyone agreed that the 550W PSU will be good for the job?

Toms88 · 17 Jul 2011 at 17:23

Bump?

Jony27 · 17 Jul 2011 at 17:25

yes it will handle it.
make sure you backup all your files before re installing Win7 onto the SSD

olivier renault · 17 Jul 2011 at 18:43

HX520 / VX550? Should do the job.

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=62

Jony27 · 17 Jul 2011 at 18:46

never doubt corsair stuff