What to buy?

Allattar

Allattar

Allattar

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Quite frankly im in that lost phase again.

Currently I have a E8500 on an Nforce 6 4 GB Ram. A 460GTX 2GB, and my piece de resistance is a crucial 128 GB SSD.

But I have noticed problems. Im not sure if the memory is on the slide or the SSD (despite reporting 90% health) is unhappy. Freezing on boot ups, checked memory seems ok, but ive reduced it to a 800MHz clock from pushing it to the MAX OC clock spec on the Nforce 6 board.

I kow something isn't happy somewhere, and to be fair it gets used and used a lot :).

My question is a help what do I want to look at. I figure somewhere around the 500-600 pound mark to upgrade the motherboard and processor. I still have a Corsair 550W power supply, so this may/may not need upgrading depending.

If the Motherboard and processor are replaced that obviously means RAM as well. What to go for though? AMD or Intel? does anyone have any of the new boot interfaces out, can I finally do away with a BIOS?

Any pointers really appreciated
 
healthy budget, look at the Radon/Krypton bundles, if you do want to upgrade, though not entirely sure it will solve your problems
Have you tried a fresh reinstall in case of corrupt drivers/registry etc?
 
tried a fresh install so I know its hardware somewhere. Did see the krypton bundles, looks interesting. I am guessing to notice a difference I need an I7 :)
 
Depends on your uses, if its purely gaming then no an i5 will suffice, if you do encoding/rendering etc then yeah an i7 will be worth it
the non BIOS systems are still a rare commodity and not yet in general use yet BTW

Do you get any windows event reports?
 
Ive had a quick scan through the event viewer, not seeing anything that pins errors down.

I have had Windows become corrupt twice, so I was wondering about write errors to the SSD.
I was using the Crucial memory at Max OC settings, and memtesting those seemed to cause memtest to crash spectacularly. Very odd.
Tested two sticks alone, they worked fine. Went to reboot, and it had lost the bootsector from the drive.

At that point I checked all SATA cables everywhere, unplugged and replugged in. Put the memory on Auto settings which runs it at 800 not 1066. Upped the memory voltage to 2.175 from 2.125. And retested the memory in packs of two and then altogether.

It then worked. Which still meant I don't know what it was, or if it will occur again.
So ill run at the lower memory settings for a bit, and see if its stable. If so Ill up the memory clock again to see if it is anything along those lines.

To be fair though its a two year old Nforce 6 board.

And I have itchy fingers to get new tech that will last me a few years :).
 
get one of the SSD checkers such as crystal disk, pretty sure itll be your memory though, you realise you dont actually get very much if any real world performance increase form clocking your memory?

If you pushed it to limits and it failed and reset, it prob reset BIOS to defaults, which prob also changed your SATA configuration from AHCI to IDE (default) and you need to change it back for it to be able to boot properly
 
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