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My Computer Upgrade
11 years ago
I had money saved for Christmas so I could get a computer upgrade. Took me ages, but I finally did it.
After two days of the MOST STRESSFUL troubleshooting I've ever done.
So before I get into that, I'll describe the parts I had, then moved into:
Old parts I left behind:
Some ASUS Intel board that I didn't care much for. CM5671 I think.
4GH 1333hz RAM
ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5770
Intel Pentium E5500 (2.8 GHz dual-core)
Intermediate parts bought and returned:
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 (assumed to be faulty, was likely not)
AMD FX-8350 (Bought and was the faulty component; was superannuated)
New Rig:
GIGABYTE 990-FXA UD3 R4.0 (New)
AMD FX-8370 (4.0GHz 8-core unlocked, still locked by default, no need to overclock) (New)
8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz Corsair Ballistix (New)
ATI/AMD Radeon R9 270x 4GB VRAM ed
1 TB HDD
1 500 GB HDD (New)
1 DVD
1 BD
520W Insignia PSU
Expenses: $350
After two days of the MOST STRESSFUL troubleshooting I've ever done.
So before I get into that, I'll describe the parts I had, then moved into:
Old parts I left behind:
Some ASUS Intel board that I didn't care much for. CM5671 I think.
4GH 1333hz RAM
ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5770
Intel Pentium E5500 (2.8 GHz dual-core)
Intermediate parts bought and returned:
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 (assumed to be faulty, was likely not)
AMD FX-8350 (Bought and was the faulty component; was superannuated)
New Rig:
GIGABYTE 990-FXA UD3 R4.0 (New)
AMD FX-8370 (4.0GHz 8-core unlocked, still locked by default, no need to overclock) (New)
8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz Corsair Ballistix (New)
ATI/AMD Radeon R9 270x 4GB VRAM ed
1 TB HDD
1 500 GB HDD (New)
1 DVD
1 BD
520W Insignia PSU
Expenses: $350
You better not, it's $100.
Moving things from one disc to the other art 60-70 MB/s. Was pretty crazy.
Nice PSU, tho.