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AdamG1401
By AdamG1401
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Right lads. I'll keep this one simple. (Had typed a massive article earlier, but the site had a glitch and i lost it.)

 

I've got 3 upgrade paths I see from my current point. I'd like some POSITIVE feedback on this and suggestions. Right now, I've got an ASROck 990FX Extreme3 board, an FX 8150 and a 550ti. The CPU has it's own dedicated watercooling loop and the loop has big room for expansion.

 

So Path One for me is to buy blocks for the VRM's and Northbridge on my current board and put it in my W/C loop. Purley for silence (NB has annoyng fan) and overlocking headroom (On the VRM's)

 

Path Two for me is to either get a ROG Crosshair V Formula Z board OR get a  Gigabyte UD3 and a Corsair CX 600 and custom sleeve all the cables. For asthetics in the build - Black and red interior scheme. 

 

Option 3 is to get a 2GB 7850 (and a nother one down the line) - no, i'm not getting an nVidia card. I have a tight space limit here and these 7850's are perfect. 

 

So yeah, I'd love some feedback. I'll post a picture of my rig in it's current state shortly.

 

Thanks in advance - Adam :)

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"Don't make a girl a promise, if you know you can't keep it" | "Didn't you hear? Spartans never die."

-Gaming- FX 8150 @ 4.2GHz, HD 7870 Tahiti LE 2GB @ 1.1GHz, ASRock 990FX Extreme3, 8GB DDR3 1333 MHz, WIndows 10, Custom Watercooled, NZXT Switch 810

-Audio Editing/Mixing- Mac Mini Late 2014, Core i7 3.5Ghz, 8GB RAM, 2TB Fusion Drive, OSX 10.12 El Captain -Phone- HTC One M7 32GB

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Option 3. The other 2 options give little to no performance gain.

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Option 3. The other 2 options give little to no performance gain.

 

No i completely disagree. Option one you have better cooling performance for ur VRMs.

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No i completely disagree. Option one you have better cooling performance for ur VRMs.

Better cooling only benefits overclocks which isn't that significant considering the cpu/gpu. 

The benefit would be very little compared to upgrading to a 7850.

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