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I'm currently running a pretty decent PC setup, however there is a few things that majorly bug me about it, which I want to get rid of. I'm currently running the following rig:

-i7-2600(non-k)

-GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB

-8Gb Nanya 1333Mhz ddr3 Ram

-CX 550M psu

-Gigabyte motherboard (nothing flashy, Pci.e 2.0 and lack of usb 3.0 headers are the biggest pains)

-WD Blue 1tb HDD (few months old, system drive)

-Seagate Barracuda 1tb HDD (few years old, possibly slightly defective, using it currently for a faster steam library).

-NEC 1680x1050 monitor, Cheap as hell Zalman gaming mouse (15ish usd), Random lenovo keyboard.

My gripes are that the monitor is hot as hell and appears to be defective, with there appearing to be a stain of some sort on the top left corner, causing colours there to appear minimally darker than on the rest, that my mouse is beyond awful and doesn't really allow for comfortable gaming and finally that pressing the windows button on my keyboard sometimes results in the windows menu to sometimes take 15 seconds to load up and programs loading incredibly slowly at times despite having performed a fresh system reinstall a few months back and the system having it's own partition.

My planned upgrades are as follows:

-Adata SU800 256GB ssd for more frequently used programs and the system

-Dream Machines DM1 Pro mouse + new mousepad (heard good things about it, and won't burn a hole through my wallet)

-Iiyama Blackhawk 1080p 75Hz display

If anyone has any comments on this or suggestions I'll be more than glad to listen, this is just a rough draft of what I want to do to make my computer run faster in the near future, thanks in advance!

 

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Wait for Coffeelake and upgrade to the 8700K. It will definitely make your computer run faster ;)

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seems decent enough, but if these upgrades dont solve the windows menu problem then you might need a new CPU, mobo and RAM set.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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39 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Wait for Coffeelake and upgrade to the 8700K ;)

They aren't planning a CPU upgrade tho :P 

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56 minutes ago, Rainbrew said:

I'm currently running a pretty decent PC setup, however there is a few things that majorly bug me about it, which I want to get rid of. I'm currently running the following rig:

-i7-2600(non-k)

-GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB

-8Gb Nanya 1333Mhz ddr3 Ram

-CX 550M psu

-Gigabyte motherboard (nothing flashy, Pci.e 2.0 and lack of usb 3.0 headers are the biggest pains)

-WD Blue 1tb HDD (few months old, system drive)

-Seagate Barracuda 1tb HDD (few years old, possibly slightly defective, using it currently for a faster steam library).

-NEC 1680x1050 monitor, Cheap as hell Zalman gaming mouse (15ish usd), Random lenovo keyboard.

My gripes are that the monitor is hot as hell and appears to be defective, with there appearing to be a stain of some sort on the top left corner, causing colours there to appear minimally darker than on the rest, that my mouse is beyond awful and doesn't really allow for comfortable gaming and finally that pressing the windows button on my keyboard sometimes results in the windows menu to sometimes take 15 seconds to load up and programs loading incredibly slowly at times despite having performed a fresh system reinstall a few months back and the system having it's own partition.

My planned upgrades are as follows:

-Adata SU800 256GB ssd for more frequently used programs and the system

-Dream Machines DM1 Pro mouse + new mousepad (heard good things about it, and won't burn a hole through my wallet)

-Iiyama Blackhawk 1080p 75Hz display

If anyone has any comments on this or suggestions I'll be more than glad to listen, this is just a rough draft of what I want to do to make my computer run faster in the near future, thanks in advance!

 

Wrong link my dude

 

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2 hours ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Wait for Coffeelake and upgrade to the 8700K. It will definitely make your computer run faster ;)

I think once the newest generation comes out I'll go for a generation older i5 since the i7 was with the computer when I got it off of a friend and the extent of my needs for processing power are occasional things in Blender and video games, don't really plan on CPU heavy tasks.

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