Hi,
My current system is
E8400 with Tuniq tower - currently at default speed
8 GB (4 x 2 GB) Geil
Vanilla Asus P5B
4890 1 GB
P180/OCZ 600W PSU
Vista 64
24" Samsung at 1920 x 1200
I have been running the CPU at 9 x 420 with the Ram at 840 faultlessly for 12 months or so. Over Xmas I have suffered various lock ups and nasty reboots during games and also under no stress. I checked with Orthos and it crashed after a few minutes. Returning to default CPU settings seems to have cured it but it looks like time to upgrade.
I will keep the Case, PSU and GCard but want to move to a new MB, RAM, CPU bundle - DDR3 I guess. The old kit will move into my son's PC. I'm happy to overclock and will also move to Windows 7.
I am out of touch with i7 etc - what is a cost effective upgrade today?
My current system is
E8400 with Tuniq tower - currently at default speed
8 GB (4 x 2 GB) Geil
Vanilla Asus P5B
4890 1 GB
P180/OCZ 600W PSU
Vista 64
24" Samsung at 1920 x 1200
I have been running the CPU at 9 x 420 with the Ram at 840 faultlessly for 12 months or so. Over Xmas I have suffered various lock ups and nasty reboots during games and also under no stress. I checked with Orthos and it crashed after a few minutes. Returning to default CPU settings seems to have cured it but it looks like time to upgrade.
I will keep the Case, PSU and GCard but want to move to a new MB, RAM, CPU bundle - DDR3 I guess. The old kit will move into my son's PC. I'm happy to overclock and will also move to Windows 7.
I am out of touch with i7 etc - what is a cost effective upgrade today?