Time for another upgrade

Caal

Caal

Caal

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Guys,

I put my last gaming rig together back in Oct 2010 and threw in an SSD drive a year later for my OS to sit on although I've been getting the occasional blue screens ever since (if anyone knows why...)

Here's the list of bits.

HIS ATI Radeon HD 5850 iCooler V 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail (No Overclock)
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
8GB OF OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3G1600LV4GK)
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply
Corsair Force GT 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CSSD-F60GBGT-BK)
Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD6402AAEX)
Samsung P2450H 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Glossy Black

Any ideas on what I can upgrade? I don't really want to be changing my mobo or cpu at this point but I'd consider it if it would fix my stability issues.

I've also got my eyes on a new case. Maybe something like the Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case as I'm finding it a pain to fit everything into my current Thermaltake Shark Case. Anything similar out there to the Corsair case but perhaps a little less pricey?

As a budget somewhere between £200-£400.
 
What kind of titles do you play?

Minimum cost/fuss would be to buy a decent CPU cooler and overclock the CPU, plus a new GPU (7950 etc.). The CPU will still hold you back though.

I'd reinstall the OS to see if that gets rid of crashes.
 
At the moment I'm playing ARMA3, Rome 2 and I'm looking to upgrade for X Rebirth. I don't see me playing BF4 or COD anytime soon.

If I go and reinstall the OS whats the best way of getting the drivers updated? I don't think I'd be able to find my original install discs anymore.
 
Idleman said:
If you know when you had your last BSOD, can you look in event viewer to see what was reported. What were you doing when it Bluescreened?
Download and install Bluescreenview, may help to provide more info, when it happens again.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
Click to expand...

I've ran that tool before but some of the crashes do not generate a mini dump file. I'll have another look tonight.
 
Get a bigger SSD to store all your game binaries + windows on it. Should find the games loading a lot quicker!
 
Fresh install and a GPU would be my suggestion, then grab a new bumdle when the next chipset launches to bring the rest of the system into line
 
So would the HIS HD 7950 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card be a good < £200 card to get? I see AMD have a new R series of cards.
 
Not read up on the R series better asking in a thread under GPU's as you will get more knowledgeable people answer. Enjoy the new card, whichever you get.
 
The new AMD R-series are re-badged 7xxx series cards, except for the R290/R290X.

That 7950 that's on offer currently is a great deal at the moment, or if you wanted to use more of your budget the 780s have just had a huge price drop.
 
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