Hi guys...
I currently have;
i7 930 stock
Corsair H50, dual fans in a push-pull
Gigabyte UD3R X58 board
6GB RAM
Sapphire Vapor-X 5870
I've been running into some issues with cooling and crashes lately. Cooling-wise, the H50 starts to get really hot after a few hours and can sound like a hovercraft in my front room.
Crash-wise, I think the graphics card is on it's way out - if I try playing anything even reasonably taxing, I will occasionally get a hung system where the screen goes completely grey, with just some vertical grey lines on the screen. Can't recover from this, have to do a hard reset, and after the most recent one resulting in all sorts of corrupt files on my HD, it's time for a change.
The system is 3 years old now. I primarily use it for games, and had plans for toying with video editing which have yet to arrive. 6GB seemed like plenty when I built this, but I'd much rather have more to play with if it comes to a new build. I've got an SSD in there, but it's not used to it's full potential due to the old X58 board.
Right now, I primarily want to quieten the thing down, and make it more stable. I'm quite happy to do a new build if you think that's best, as I'd already been toying with the idea of a Sandybridge-E 2011 based build until the Haswell appeared and complicated matters for me.
What would you guys suggest? Time for a new build, or just buy a few new bits and make do for a year or two? I haven't got a clue what to do, so figured I'd see what you guys think.
I currently have;
i7 930 stock
Corsair H50, dual fans in a push-pull
Gigabyte UD3R X58 board
6GB RAM
Sapphire Vapor-X 5870
I've been running into some issues with cooling and crashes lately. Cooling-wise, the H50 starts to get really hot after a few hours and can sound like a hovercraft in my front room.
Crash-wise, I think the graphics card is on it's way out - if I try playing anything even reasonably taxing, I will occasionally get a hung system where the screen goes completely grey, with just some vertical grey lines on the screen. Can't recover from this, have to do a hard reset, and after the most recent one resulting in all sorts of corrupt files on my HD, it's time for a change.
The system is 3 years old now. I primarily use it for games, and had plans for toying with video editing which have yet to arrive. 6GB seemed like plenty when I built this, but I'd much rather have more to play with if it comes to a new build. I've got an SSD in there, but it's not used to it's full potential due to the old X58 board.
Right now, I primarily want to quieten the thing down, and make it more stable. I'm quite happy to do a new build if you think that's best, as I'd already been toying with the idea of a Sandybridge-E 2011 based build until the Haswell appeared and complicated matters for me.
What would you guys suggest? Time for a new build, or just buy a few new bits and make do for a year or two? I haven't got a clue what to do, so figured I'd see what you guys think.
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