Hey,
For the LONGEST time I've had a really strange problem with my PC. Every time I turn it on, the CPU fan whirrs to life really loud... and the PC will not boot. Not even a boot screen, nothing at all... so I turn it on and off repeatedly.. maybe 5x, and eventually the CPU (I'm sure it's the CPU...) fan whirrs to life but a little quieter, and the computer will boot properly. After a while I had to turn it on and off 10x for it to work, then 20, then 50, and now it's more like 100x.
I'm not even joking.
So I figure my rig is pretty much screwed from all the abuse, now I've decided to buy a new Mobo + PSU + CPU (plus a case, probably, just because mine's a cheap gaming case I picked up a long time ago, you can't fit dust filters to the fans because of the way it's constructed, there's no room).
So, what to go for? I only really use the computer for office work, watching a couple movies on occasion (rarely) and photoshop for my photography stuff. I'm thinking of possibly going for a Phenom X2 550 Black Edition 3.1GHz 6MB with an ASROCK M3A790GXH 128M 790GX (because it's the cheapest Mobo I could find whereby I can unlock the other 2 cores on the Phenom). Although... I did consider just going with a quick Athlon (I currently run an Athlon 2ghz)
You guys think that's a solid choice?
Thanks in advance.
For the LONGEST time I've had a really strange problem with my PC. Every time I turn it on, the CPU fan whirrs to life really loud... and the PC will not boot. Not even a boot screen, nothing at all... so I turn it on and off repeatedly.. maybe 5x, and eventually the CPU (I'm sure it's the CPU...) fan whirrs to life but a little quieter, and the computer will boot properly. After a while I had to turn it on and off 10x for it to work, then 20, then 50, and now it's more like 100x.
I'm not even joking.
So I figure my rig is pretty much screwed from all the abuse, now I've decided to buy a new Mobo + PSU + CPU (plus a case, probably, just because mine's a cheap gaming case I picked up a long time ago, you can't fit dust filters to the fans because of the way it's constructed, there's no room).
So, what to go for? I only really use the computer for office work, watching a couple movies on occasion (rarely) and photoshop for my photography stuff. I'm thinking of possibly going for a Phenom X2 550 Black Edition 3.1GHz 6MB with an ASROCK M3A790GXH 128M 790GX (because it's the cheapest Mobo I could find whereby I can unlock the other 2 cores on the Phenom). Although... I did consider just going with a quick Athlon (I currently run an Athlon 2ghz)
You guys think that's a solid choice?
Thanks in advance.
