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hi all i had my pc for years now, a month ago I decided to upgrade it somewhat so that it can stay relevant and ill be able to play games on it my original specs were: Asus H97 Plus Intel Core i3 4160 @3.6Ghz Cooler Master 240 AIO(don't remember the exact name) 2x4gb HyperX Fury @1600 Nvidia Gtx960 2Gb Gigabyte Windforce OC Adata 512gb NVMe SSD 500W Cooler Master PSU Windows 11 Pro 22H2 so what I've done is Upgrade To 4770K 2 Additional 4gb sticks of ram bringing the total to 16Gb And an Nvidia Geforce RTX2060Super Since I've done these my PC started to crash randomly sometimes with BSOD with Critical Process Died And sometime it would just freeze these freezes are random, sometimes I'm gaming and this happens, and sometimes on idle the interesting thing is it would happen even in BIOS! sometimes it won't freeze for days and some other times constantly crashes I even ran Furmark and Prime95 at the same time for 24 hours and it didn't crash and temps were Cpu 75 max and Gpu 86 max(I know GPU is a bit hot but these gigabyte cards aren't very well cooled but I tried without it and no luck) but after an hour I was watching youtube and it crash things I've done for troubleshooting: i DDU the Gpu Removed the GPU running on iGPU no luck removed Ram Sticks no luck tried a 600W psu no luck something that tipped me off was Crashing in Bios so I revert back to my old CPU and everything was fine for 7 days straight so I Knew it was the CPU, installed it back and it started crashing again the only thing that seems to help now is to disable Intel Smart step and lock CPU clocks to 3.3 with 1.25 Vcore! at these clocks, it will become a bit more stable and I was able to do daily for 1 or 2 days but 1.25 is a lot although my cooler is handling it and keeping the temps below 80 but still and 3.3 is not good enough, this CPU should boost to 3.9, and out of curiosity I got 4.5Ghz at 1.27Vcore out of it with Cinebecnh score of 5378 at 3.3 it will drop to around 4000 and last week I tried locking it to 4.0Ghz and would work for 12 hours but a crash was guaranteed I played Last of us on this pc,at 3.3Ghz game would run at around 40 with GPU usage around 60% or something @1080p but at 4.5 GHz I was able to get mostly stable 60 and Gpu usage was 100% I know my CPU is probably faulty but wanted to check with you guys so that I be sure I might buy a 4790k to replace it in upcoming month but for now I'm stuck with this so I apperitiate the help and one last thing my monitor is 1080 and I'm okay with it what do you think is it ok to still run a 4th gen? the only downside is my SSD,although its NVMe but its running at 10gb/s and not full speed but I'm ok with it if I want to buy change platform I can only afford 7 or 8th gen at it would be triple the cost of a 4790k thanks for the help

So here is the thing. If i compare an i7 2600 vs i5 6500, on paper the i7 is faster than the new i5. http://www.game-debate.com/cpu/index.php?pid=639&pid2=2...It says that i7 is almost 7% better in performance than the new i5. But thats performance on paper. My question is that will the new i5 perform better than the i7 2600 in newer games like Watch Dogs 2 or Battlefield 1? I am currently using the i7 2600 3.4ghz with my gtx 1060 3gb and it bottlenecks like hell... Watch Dogs 2 gives 30 fps. Changing graphics settings or resolution doesnt affect the performance either. (Thats a bottleneck right?).

Hey guys I am using an older xeon CPU and found out it's kinda rare. Can someone out there please tell me something about the xeon e5 2658 v3 12 Codes CPU?

Hello everyone. Can all you nice people help me out with choosing a system for gaming I have put togheter this 2 system and not sure witch one to choose and witch one will give me better gameplay for longer time Im not looking for content creation or editing or anything,just pure ultra settings stable 60-80fps gaming. Any suggestions or changes are much appreciated. Thank you in advance and hope to hear more and more help. Here are the option: 1.SKYLAKE Motherboard MSI Z170A PC Mate Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard Processor Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM Memory Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FB2K2/1 Mechanical Hard Drive 1 Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003) Case BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black Window CPU Cooler Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060007-WW) Power Supply Corsair Builder Series CX 600w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020060-UK) Solid State Drive 1 Kingston 120GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/1 Graphics Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming RGB 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1080G1 GAMING-8 2.HASSWELL Motherboard MSI X99A SLI Plus Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard Processor Intel i7-5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - OEM (CM8064801548435) Memory Ballistix Sport 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit (BLS4C4G4D240FSA) CPU Cooler Corsair Hydro H105 240mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) Mechanical Hard Drive 1 Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003) Power Supply XFX XTR Series 850W 80 Plus Gold Fully Modular Power Supply Case Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Midi Tower Case with Window - Titanium Green Graphics Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming RGB 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1080G1 GAMING-8 Solid State Drive 1 Kingston 120GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/1

Ok guys, to be quick here, I would like to overclock my CPU. Because I run a lot of hardware demanding games and programs. My specs are in my profile so u guys can go there and check it out. If some of u guys have nearly precisely the specs that I have a settings profile for me to just input in the mobo would be like a huuuugggeee time saver for me.

Source Picture gallery from Cnet (shows the insides) uhhh wtf is with that case?