Quick upgrade nothing fency.

[Ancient93]

Hello folks,

I just wanted to refresh my rig and a little bit overclock it. Atm my setup:

 

MOBO: G31MX-S2

CPU: Q6600

RAM: ddr2 4GB (some old crappy ones)

GPU: GTX 750

Storage: old 250 hdd (don't ask why, I'm going for 850 evo, beside some1 have better idea)

Power Supply: Corsair TX650W

 

I really don't want to start next discussion about is it worth to stay on lga775 or move on, I like Q6600 and hopefully I won't need to change it soon.

So moving on, I want to change few things:

 

MOBO: GA-EP45T-UD3LR or GA-EP45-DS3r (also found some other but those 2 seems fits the best) both simillar price

CPU: Q6600

RAM: ddr3 8gb or ddr2 8gb (depends on mobo)  both simillar price

GPU: GTX 750

Storage: samsung 850 evo 250GB beside there are other nice solutions

Power Supply: Corsair TX650W

Sound card: Xonar DG

 

I'm mostly concerned about if it worth getting ddr3. What you guys think, which motherboard is more oc friendly, and will last next few years

[vanished]

I know you said you don't want to, but if you're going to change mobos anyway, I would recommend making it a total system upgrade (CPU + RAM too)

[Guest]

I would really consider a i3/i5 depending on how much you're willing to spend or Pentium if you have the money 

[Stardar1]

see if you cannot find a GTX 750ti for similar price, it is far superior

[ShiroArikawa]

see if you cannot find a GTX 750ti for similar price, it is far superior

I have a 750ti I'm looking to maybe get rid of, barely used, it was used for around a month.

[Ancient93]

About gpu, I will look into it next year, for now bf4 seems satisfied enough, I looked at those i5, obviousle it's a great upgrade, tho it adds like 200+ $ for raw power I don't need that much, I'm light pc gamer, don't need ultra settings with 100+ fps, at least for now , and only work I'm doing on pc requires excel.

 

I know you said you don't want to, but if you're going to change mobos anyway, I would recommend making it a total system upgrade (CPU + RAM too)

Yeah I'm gonna change ram anyway, thats why ddr3 seems more viable, so I can use it in next build, tho next problem is that GA-EP45T-UD3LR uses ddr3 with max 1333 mhz, tho I'm not an expert and don't know if it really can make a difference.

[YeroJero]

I'm gonna be honest with you. Upgrading a motherboard for a slight overclock and from ddr2 to ddr3 is just outright a waste of money and will give you 0 benefit. An SSD is a good upgrade but you will be bottlenecked by SATA2. Save up a little more and just build a new PC. You will get a far better price to performance ratio.

[Ancient93]

Crap totally forgot about sata2.

 

My plan B was to build pc but using amd cpu, idk why, prolly curiosity. That way I would go with something like:

 

MOBO: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX or MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition (I found a semi good deal on used sabertooth bundled with 8320 for ~230$)

CPU: AMD fx 8320

RAM: ddr3 8gb

Storage: samsung 850 evo 250GB

Sound card: Xonar DG

and leave:

Power Supply: Corsair TX650W

GPU: GTX 750 (at least for now)

[YeroJero]

Crap totally forgot about sata2.

 

My plan B was to build pc but using amd cpu, idk why, prolly curiosity. That way I would go with something like:

 

MOBO: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX or MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition (I found a semi good deal on used sabertooth bundled with 8320 for ~230$)

CPU: AMD fx 8320

RAM: ddr3 8gb

Storage: samsung 850 evo 250GB

Sound card: Xonar DG

and leave:

Power Supply: Corsair TX650W

GPU: GTX 750 (at least for now)

 

Looks good to me. 

[Redicat]

SSD's WILL bottleneck on the current GEN SATA

[vanished]

SSD's WILL bottleneck on the current GEN SATA

well, yeah but they are designed and priced accordingly.  What's your solution, only buy PCIe SSDs?

[Redicat]

well, yeah but they are designed and priced accordingly.  What's your solution, only buy PCIe SSDs?

 

Wait HAHA that might atually work, lol just wait until they get fucking cheaper ffs

 

 

Crap totally forgot about sata2.

 

My plan B was to build pc but using amd cpu, idk why, prolly curiosity. That way I would go with something like:

 

MOBO: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX or MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition (I found a semi good deal on used sabertooth bundled with 8320 for ~230$)

CPU: AMD fx 8320

RAM: ddr3 8gb

Storage: samsung 850 evo 250GB

Sound card: Xonar DG

and leave:

Power Supply: Corsair TX650W

GPU: GTX 750 (at least for now)

Holy shit that FX mobo combo is a good deal.

[Ancient93]

So I started building new rig, couldn't get sabertooth deal anymore but I manage tog get other decent deal; Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P + FX 8320 with over 2 year waranty for 135$.

Going to look for other deals, xmas madness, so it should be pretty cost efficient build. Thanks to all for help.  :lol: