I need to rebuild my PC: AMD 955BE, 6870 and Gigabyte 990FX-UD3 that's failing

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alkemyst

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I need to rebuild my PC, I don't really game much. We watch a lot of movies, I deal with BIG Visio/AutoCAD/Excel things at times.

My current system is at www.30moons.com/pc_chiapet.php

My current build (basics):
AMD Phenon II x4 955 BE @ 3.75
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS, 1TB, 32MB Cache at 7200RPM
XFX Double D HD-687A-ZDFC Radeon HD 6870 1GB @ 900/1050MHz
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721075KLA330, 750GB, 32MB Cache @ 7200RPM
Western Digital WD Elements 2 TB USB 2.0

My computer just restarts at times and then the BIOS resets itself and can't find the backup BIOS.

My graphics card also resets a lot.

The hard drive / SSD upgrade is just something I want to do too. I have a laptop with SSD and it's fast.

My upgrade is:
FX 8350 $147
Gigabyte GA-990X-Gaming SLI (rev. 1.0) $129
Mushkin Reactor SSD 1TB $139.99
GTX 1050ti $155
WD Blue 3TB $87

I do overclock.


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I'd wait it out if you can for AM4 platform. It will unify the APU and CPU into one socket. Just seems like a bad time to invest $ into an end of life platform
 
When is it hitting, I need my computer for my job and can't afford it to fail. It hibernates, crashes and then wakes up with a missing BIOS.
 
alkemyst said:
When is it hitting, I need my computer for my job and can't afford it to fail. It hibernates, crashes and then wakes up with a missing BIOS.
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I could be mistaken and take this with a grain of salt but from what I read it sounds like Q1 so April 2017 at the earliest
 
not amd loyal, I had intel, cyrix, AMD chips.

How can I do the above for less than $657 with intel?
 
alkemyst said:
not amd loyal, I had intel, cyrix, AMD chips.

How can I do the above for less than $657 with intel?
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I assume you're reusing the ram?

Buy this Skylake B150 motherboard with DDR3 support. You don't need a motherboard with "all the trimmings" if all you're going to do is run a single GPU, and a simple SSD.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1N83UD9864

And this Core i5 6500, which should run circles around the FX,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...cm_re=core_i5_6500-_-9SIA1N84BC8290-_-Product

Total cost is the same as your Processor and motherboard.

See this review here, where in the vast majority of benchmarks the Core i5 is 50-100% faster! You can use the i5 6600k as a stand-in for the 6500, they're only 10% apart in performance!

And these aren't just "run PC Mark" lazy reviews, Tom's creates real-world application runs, from Adobe to Office to Blender to Autocad to Maya and Solidworks.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/skylake-intel-core-i7-6700k-core-i5-6600k,4252-5.html

The best the FX 8350 can do is match the Core i5 in a few applications.

The vast majority of professional applications don't make use of more than 2 cores. And for those that do, the i5 delivers twice AMD's performance per-core, so you STILL get outstanding performance, even without overclocking.

And in gaming, the 8350 wouldn't actually be any faster than your 3.7 GHz Phenom II for most games, unless you overclocked.

And as far as gaming on the i5 versus 8350 goes, it's about the same. Some games support up to 6 cores, while most still stick to two.

http://techreport.com/review/28751/intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake-processor-reviewed/6
 
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whateverer said:
I assume you're reusing the ram?

Buy this Skylake B150 motherboard with DDR3 support. You don't need a motherboard with "all the trimmings" if all you're going to do is run a single GPU, and a simple SSD.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1N83UD9864

And this Core i5 6500, which should run circles around the FX,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...cm_re=core_i5_6500-_-9SIA1N84BC8290-_-Product

Total cost is the same as your Processor and motherboard.

See this review here, where in the vast majority of benchmarks the Core i5 is 50-100% faster! You can use the i5 6600k as a stand-in for the 6500, they're only 10% apart in performance!

And these aren't just "run PC Mark" lazy reviews, Tom's creates real-world application runs, from Adobe to Office to Blender to Autocad to Maya and Solidworks.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/skylake-intel-core-i7-6700k-core-i5-6600k,4252-5.html

The best the FX 8350 can do is match the Core i5 in a few applications.

The vast majority of professional applications don't make use of more than 2 cores. And for those that do, the i5 delivers twice AMD's performance per-core, so you STILL get outstanding performance, even without overclocking.

And in gaming, the 8350 wouldn't actually be any faster than your 3.7 GHz Phenom II for most games, unless you overclocked.

And as far as gaming on the i5 versus 8350 goes, it's about the same. Some games support up to 6 cores, while most still stick to two.

http://techreport.com/review/28751/intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake-processor-reviewed/6
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I'd agree with all of the above, but say get one of the cheaper Z170 boards, a 6600K, Hyper 212 or similarly inexpensive heatsink, and some DDR4. Opening up overclocking will give you a huge boost - 4.5-4.7 GHz stable is a near certainty.

Do you live near a MicroCenter? How much RAM are you running currently?
 
silent-circuit said:
I'd agree with all of the above, but say get one of the cheaper Z170 boards, a 6600K, Hyper 212 or similarly inexpensive heatsink, and some DDR4. Opening up overclocking will give you a huge boost - 4.5-4.7 GHz stable is a near certainty.

Do you live near a MicroCenter? How much RAM are you running currently?
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Disagree.

EVEN AT MICROCENTER, He still can't afford z170 plus 6600k plus 16GB ram on $280 cost of his AMD mobo + CPU). You forget how much memory prices have gone up recently, and the cheapest z170 + 6600k combo is $255.

His only cost-effective solution here is to use a motherboard with 4 DDR3 slots. He can buy a 6600k solo at Microcenter for the same price as the 6500 online, but that's it. But he'd still have to buy a cooler with that, so not much of a deal.

He can start with the B150 now (max ram 32GB), and if he comes upon some cash and hits a memory/performance roadblock, he can swap for one of the multitude of DDR4 motherboards, and suddenly have 64GB available.

There are BENEFITS to Intel's process node hitting a roadblock. Your compatible 200-series motherboards (work with Kaby Lake and Skylake) should be for sale for some time! And afterwards the used market will be HUGE.
 
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No Microcenters here. I may wait to buy until the new AMD chip comes out just in case it delivers.

my full rig is at http://http://www.30moons.com/pc_chiapet.php

I am looking at overclocking. I have a TRUE ULTRA-120 currently.

I don't really game much at all, I do stream video since I now have a smartcast TV and 120Mbps over wireless connections. Not heavy duty work.

Still my current rig is dying for some reason (graphics resets, motherboard boots up and can't find the BIOS, some random shutdowns, not able to power it up at times without unplugging the PSU and power cycling the computer). I need my PC to be up and running since I rely on it for work in my home office and rather not work on my company laptop except for company work.
 
The Ultra 120 is still a very solid heatsink. You can re-use it with the new machine, though you will probably need a mounting bracket kit.
 
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