Johnny Who

A couple months ago my PC started crashing and BSOD. Every time the PC restarted the bios message was that the 3.7ghz clock caused the crashed which is the auto-boost clock as the CPU is not overclocked. I turned off auto-boost and the system has been stable the last month or so. Now someone told me i should increase the voltage to get the CPU to run normally again because he believes it's a simply age/degradation issue and the CPU simply needing more Volt to run stable. Another cause for the crashed could perhaps have been my memory. I noticed my memory profile was running XMP profile which i am not sure my RAM even support so i also turned that off at same time as disabled the CPU boost feature. https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/khx1600c9d3k2_8g.pdf < My ram I have also run the IntelProcDiag tool and the windows memory test and both CPU and RAM passed without any issues.

Is it worth it at least going for a windforce version for the added cooling? I can find 6 different gigabyte 2060 on that site and i can see some are OC and others also have the windforce 3xfan system but otherwise are there any important durability/quality differences? Any suggestion for which one to get, i guess you're saying just get the cheapest one and OC it yourself.

Thanks for the suggestions and will certainly look at implementing some of those changes. Now as for a GPU. So from what i can tell the general opinion seems to be that the performance increase of a 2070 over a 2060 is, if you are budget building, not worth it. So the only other consideration here i guess is the memory difference of 6 vs 8 GB. Now keeping in mind that in the future i might be interested in running a second monitor, which i wouldn't use to game but to just have side stuff open like internet browser or watching a video etc.. is this something i should take into consideration with the vram difference? Also as i said im considering buying a GPU first and then 2-3 months later a new system. So now the timing for this, from what i understand Navi wont be in stores until Q4 and couldn't quickly find anything on nvidia bringing anything new until next year. So would right now be a good time to purchase a GPU or is there anything at all within the next 2-3 month that could impact the prices? Right now, as i have always had Gigabyte GPU and so far i haven't been disappointed by them i am looking at the https://www.megekko.nl/product/1963/1032612/Nvidia-Videokaarten/Gigabyte-GeForce-RTX-2060-Gaming-OC-6G-Videokaart Which is their premium overclocked 2060 with their windforce cooling solution.

I think for the 970evo he was talking about the WD 250GB at the bottom of the list and not the MX500 which is indeed only 20-30 more. As for the 2070 i have read the same. Also to clarify. The 250gb SSD will be used for Win10 boot, Internet Browser and some general programs and the 500GB for any games that i feel benefit from SSD.

https://www.megekko.nl/home/ Its in Dutch however, so you might have some issue navigating the site and dont believe they have option to switch language.

As i said, i will probably be buying a GPU sooner so that would already be present when i do go and buy a new system as it will already be a upgrade over my current GTX770 anyway and split the cost a bit instead of one bigger purchase. As for overclocking i dont have concrete plans of actually doing any overclocking yet. The PSU i was under the impression Seasonic was a decent PSU manufacture and as for the SSHD it seemed reasonable priced (30-40 more) for a QOL item. If you have any suggestion for replacement of these part id like to hear them.

1. Budget & Location ~€800-900 Euro without GPU Location: EU/the Netherlands 2. Aim Gaming - CS:GO/EVE:Online/Path of Exile/EU4/Star Citizen? 3. Monitors At first my current 60hz, in the future a 120-140hz at 1080 or 1440 if possible. Interest in maybe a second monitor along the line. 4. Peripherals No peripherals needed. Thinking of getting one of those 20-30 euro OEM Win10 licenses. 5. Why are you upgrading? My current system: I5-2500k / 8GB Ram / GTX7704GB is starting to show its age. Already had to turn off boosting on the CPU as it was crashing due to Overclocking according to the bios whenever it auto-boosted to 3.7mhz. So planning on upgrading my system within the next ~3-4 months possibly wait till Zen2 to see how prices develop, right now just doing the research and getting up-to-date on current developments in CPU/GPU. My preference at the moment is with AMD, as i feel it will save me money on the short and long run with a possible upgrade to Zen2 without having to worry about getting a new MB. To split up cost i plan to buy a GPU probably before actual buying a whole new system as i can just stick that in my current system and probably see some benefit already. For GPU budget would be between €450-550 so in the 1070TI/2070/Vega56 range would love some advice for that as well. Here is a SS of what i looked at so far.