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Limp Gawd
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- Nov 29, 2011
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Hi [H],
I've got a bit of an issue. I am currently running an X58 EVGA SLI LE motherboard. Overall this board works as far as booting up and making windows run. Functionally, however, I have a couple of USB ports that are dying, a few random resets here and there when something is plugged into a USB port, the bios forgets which drive is the boot drive, the keyboard (Corsair K90) fails to be recognized on boot most of the time, and the boot drive is a SSD hooked up to a sata 2 port, so it's much slower than it should be (Corsair GT 120gb).
Needless to say...I would like to upgrade.
So here are my options. I can keep my I7 920 cpu and throw it into another X58 board that has been updated to USB 3 and Sata 6/gbs like the asus sabertooth. Or....I could upgrade to a X79 / 77 and buy a whole new CPU. If I don't have to spend a ton of money, I would prefer not to.
I use this rig for work stuff (cad, solidworks, data base design, etc.) and gaming. I tend to game at 5760 x 1200 resolution. I have 6 gb of corsair dominator ram 1600, a Radeon 5970 all running from a silverstone 1000w psu.
Thoughts? Any input is greatly appreciated.
I've got a bit of an issue. I am currently running an X58 EVGA SLI LE motherboard. Overall this board works as far as booting up and making windows run. Functionally, however, I have a couple of USB ports that are dying, a few random resets here and there when something is plugged into a USB port, the bios forgets which drive is the boot drive, the keyboard (Corsair K90) fails to be recognized on boot most of the time, and the boot drive is a SSD hooked up to a sata 2 port, so it's much slower than it should be (Corsair GT 120gb).
Needless to say...I would like to upgrade.
So here are my options. I can keep my I7 920 cpu and throw it into another X58 board that has been updated to USB 3 and Sata 6/gbs like the asus sabertooth. Or....I could upgrade to a X79 / 77 and buy a whole new CPU. If I don't have to spend a ton of money, I would prefer not to.
I use this rig for work stuff (cad, solidworks, data base design, etc.) and gaming. I tend to game at 5760 x 1200 resolution. I have 6 gb of corsair dominator ram 1600, a Radeon 5970 all running from a silverstone 1000w psu.
Thoughts? Any input is greatly appreciated.