Upgrading a 5 years old PC

[Ankareth]

Hi all! 

I have this good old PC that serves me REALLY well until now. 

It has the following hardware:

Intel i7 3770K

Asus Maximus Formula V (z77)

Eggs gtx 680 ftw 2 GB

16 GB g.skill TridentX 

Samsung 850 evolution and 830 SSDs

2x 1TB western digital re4 in raid0

PSU antec hcp-1000 platinum

Watercooled first by antec kuhler 920 now with a kit from ekwb (wanted to watercool the VGA with the kuhler though)

All of this in an ATCS840 case

 

It can run a lot of games (my main task, see down) fairly smooth and in these 5 years (built September 2012) I simply loved it. But now I have more and more issues (mostly bsod relative to ntkernel.dll and such) and I am looking for an upgrade.

Hoping that the bsod aren't due to motherboard fail, I was thinking about upgrading the VGA to a 1089 TI. 

What would you do? I don't feel like buying an entirely new pc, Argon still kicks ass...

The guidelines: 

1. Budget & Location

I live in Italy but I'm not afraid to buy in Europe, if it's worth it. From outside Europe it would be more difficult due to warranty and import taxes...

The budget it's about 600-800 maximum for the VGA (if it can lasts like the 680 I am willing to invest in it), and about the same, maybe a little higher, for the monitor.

2. Aim

Mostly gaming, but with the occasional coding and productivity tasks.

3. Monitors

I have an ancient (I think it's from 2008) samsung syncmaster 225MD. I would like to upgrade to something with g-sync and 1440p (I'm not interested in 4K, I think it's too early to use it in gaming, I would prefer to have 2 monitors for productivity instead). It would.be nice if the new monitor had speakers, my wife prefer them to headsets. Or the build could include some 7.1/5.1 sorround set... idk.

4. Peripherals

I have everything I would need for now. 

5. Why are you upgrading?

As I said, I am now experiencing lots and lots of bsod, triggered by drivers like ntoskrnl.exe, ntkrnlmp.exe, NTFS.sys and such... I tried to downgrade to win7, then back to W10... No improvements. So I thought it's time to upgrade my hardware! And here I am

 

I would love to find a website where I could go "I have this this and that, what should I buy first?"

 

[LienusLateTips]

5 minutes ago, Ankareth said:

Hi all! 

I have this good old PC that serves me REALLY well until now. 

It has the following hardware:

Intel i7 3770K

Asus Maximus Formula V (z77)

Eggs gtx 680 ftw 2 GB

16 GB g.skill TridentX 

Samsung 850 evolution and 830 SSDs

2x 1TB western digital re4 in raid0

PSU antec hcp-1000 platinum

Watercooled first by antec kuhler 920 now with a kit from ekwb (wanted to watercool the VGA with the kuhler though)

All of this in an ATCS840 case

 

It can run a lot of games (my main task, see down) fairly smooth and in these 5 years (built September 2012) I simply loved it. But now I have more and more issues (mostly bsod relative to ntkernel.dll and such) and I am looking for an upgrade.

Hoping that the bsod aren't due to motherboard fail, I was thinking about upgrading the VGA to a 1089 TI. 

What would you do? I don't feel like buying an entirely new pc, Argon still kicks ass...

The guidelines: 

1. Budget & Location

I live in Italy but I'm not afraid to buy in Europe, if it's worth it. From outside Europe it would be more difficult due to warranty and import taxes...

The budget it's about 600-800 maximum for the VGA (if it can lasts like the 680 I am willing to invest in it), and about the same, maybe a little higher, for the monitor.

2. Aim

Mostly gaming, but with the occasional coding and productivity tasks.

3. Monitors

I have an ancient (I think it's from 2008) samsung syncmaster 225MD. I would like to upgrade to something with g-sync and 1440p (I'm not interested in 4K, I think it's too early to use it in gaming, I would prefer to have 2 monitors for productivity instead). It would.be nice if the new monitor had speakers, my wife prefer them to headsets. Or the build could include some 7.1/5.1 sorround set... idk.

4. Peripherals

I have everything I would need for now. 

5. Why are you upgrading?

As I said, I am now experiencing lots and lots of bsod, triggered by drivers like ntoskrnl.exe, ntkrnlmp.exe, NTFS.sys and such... I tried to downgrade to win7, then back to W10... No improvements. So I thought it's time to upgrade my hardware! And here I am

 

I would love to find a website where I could go "I have this this and that, what should I buy first?"

 

Night theme users ^

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So, whats the whole budget?

[DocSwag]

have you tried reinstalling windows to fix the bsods?

[TheGlenlivet]

19 minutes ago, Ankareth said:

Hi all! 

I have this good old PC that serves me REALLY well until now. 

It has the following hardware:

Intel i7 3770K

Asus Maximus Formula V (z77)

Eggs gtx 680 ftw 2 GB

16 GB g.skill TridentX 

Samsung 850 evolution and 830 SSDs

2x 1TB western digital re4 in raid0

PSU antec hcp-1000 platinum

Watercooled first by antec kuhler 920 now with a kit from ekwb (wanted to watercool the VGA with the kuhler though)

All of this in an ATCS840 case

 

It can run a lot of games (my main task, see down) fairly smooth and in these 5 years (built September 2012) I simply loved it. But now I have more and more issues (mostly bsod relative to ntkernel.dll and such) and I am looking for an upgrade.

Hoping that the bsod aren't due to motherboard fail, I was thinking about upgrading the VGA to a 1089 TI. 

What would you do? I don't feel like buying an entirely new pc, Argon still kicks ass...

The guidelines: 

1. Budget & Location

I live in Italy but I'm not afraid to buy in Europe, if it's worth it. From outside Europe it would be more difficult due to warranty and import taxes...

The budget it's about 600-800 maximum for the VGA (if it can lasts like the 680 I am willing to invest in it), and about the same, maybe a little higher, for the monitor.

2. Aim

Mostly gaming, but with the occasional coding and productivity tasks.

3. Monitors

I have an ancient (I think it's from 2008) samsung syncmaster 225MD. I would like to upgrade to something with g-sync and 1440p (I'm not interested in 4K, I think it's too early to use it in gaming, I would prefer to have 2 monitors for productivity instead). It would.be nice if the new monitor had speakers, my wife prefer them to headsets. Or the build could include some 7.1/5.1 sorround set... idk.

4. Peripherals

I have everything I would need for now. 

5. Why are you upgrading?

As I said, I am now experiencing lots and lots of bsod, triggered by drivers like ntoskrnl.exe, ntkrnlmp.exe, NTFS.sys and such... I tried to downgrade to win7, then back to W10... No improvements. So I thought it's time to upgrade my hardware! And here I am

 

I would love to find a website where I could go "I have this this and that, what should I buy first?"

 

The i73770K is still a good processor, a new monitor, 1080ti and fix/reinstall windows and it will be good to go for a while.

[unknownmiscreant]

12 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

The i73770K is still a good processor, a new monitor, 1080ti and fix/reinstall windows and it will be good to go for a while.

I have had driver issues like you've said with every PC I have every owned. Fully deleting all system partitions and clean installing windows fixes everything.

 

If it doesn't, there is likely something wrong with your hardware.

[Ankareth]

Thanks to everybody!

 

So, my budget total would be around 1500 euros.

 

I reinstalled everything, I also changed physical disk (I was using the 830, I switched to a brand new 850 evo, just in case my old ssd was aging), but I still have the ntkrn etc etc bsods.

 

And I also arrived to the conclusion that I have some hardware issues.. Temps are mainly ok, in synthetic benchmarks and stress tests GPU is usually around 80 °C, CPU stays at around 60-something.

 

RAM seems fine, memtest86+ after some time still gives no errors at all.

My worst fear would be that the mobo is dying, that would mean to basically buy a new PC.

[unknownmiscreant]

7 minutes ago, Ankareth said:

Thanks to everybody!

 

So, my budget total would be around 1500 euros.

 

I reinstalled everything, I also changed physical disk (I was using the 830, I switched to a brand new 850 evo, just in case my old ssd was aging), but I still have the ntkrn etc etc bsods.

 

And I also arrived to the conclusion that I have some hardware issues.. Temps are mainly ok, in synthetic benchmarks and stress tests GPU is usually around 80 °C, CPU stays at around 60-something.

 

RAM seems fine, memtest86+ after some time still gives no errors at all.

My worst fear would be that the mobo is dying, that would mean to basically buy a new PC.

Best plan of action would be to make a backup of your data, so if something dies, then you don't loose anything.

 

Do you have a different GPU to try? Doesn't need to be anything special at all.

[Ankareth]

I already backupped everything that matters, I am covered on that side.

 

Sadly, no other gpu are available to me right now. 

As I said before, my rig is 5 years old and until last months it kicked ass... I could try the integrated GPU on the i7, but that would probably give me even more problems... And I don't think it can run Hitman or GTAV.  

[unknownmiscreant]

19 minutes ago, Ankareth said:

I already backupped everything that matters, I am covered on that side.

 

Sadly, no other gpu are available to me right now. 

As I said before, my rig is 5 years old and until last months it kicked ass... I could try the integrated GPU on the i7, but that would probably give me even more problems... And I don't think it can run Hitman or GTAV.  

Firstly, REMEMBER TO QUOTE!!! Otherwise the person you are replying to doesn't know you've replied.

 

May as well try the iGPU. You could also try removing memory sticks. Pare the system back to only bare essentials, KB, mouse, monitor. single SSD, single ram stick, iGPU etc. If it still fails, with a new install of windows in that setup, then something more is wrong.