This is, by far, the first time that this happens to me, usually I am grinning ear to ear when I finally am able to get a new build, not this time, this time I feel like I have wasted my money. Perhaps I was under the impression that what I had was a low end system and it turned out to be a Medium to Top end system? I mean for me, perhaps for others with top of the line systems still is low end... I will try to explain better
I used some of the components from my old build to make this one because they were good enough to use.
OLD BUILD...
Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
TT Speedo Advance Case
PC Power & Cooling 750 Silence PSU
Intel Q9650 w/CM V8 Cooler
EVGA 780 SLI FTW Mobo
Corsair Dominator 8GBs 1066Mhz DDR2 Ram
EVGA GTX260 + MSI 9500GT (PhysX)
WD Velociraptor 300GB HDD (OS)
Samsung 750 + 1TB HDD for Storage
About a month or so I was able to acquire a new Asus GTX 660 OC 2GBs GPU so I took out the GTX260 and I felt a bit of a better performance but more so eye candy than anything else.
There was a Hot Deal for an ASRock z87 Extreme 6 Mobo + i5-4670K haswell that I couldn't resist and I went for it, but of course I needed to buy RAM as well and I did so here is.
NEW BUILD
Win 7 ultimate 64 bit
TT Speedo Advance Case (from old build)
PC Power & Cooling 750w Silencer PSU
ASRock Z87 Extreme 6 Mobo
i5-4670K Hasswell CPU
G-Skill Ripjaws 8GBs 2133 DDR3 RAM
Asus GTX660 OC 2GB GPU
Samsung 840 SSD 120 GB (OS... also added as new addition)
Samsung 750 + 1.5 TB HDD for Storage (from old build)
Startup seems faster but this is always the case with a new build, I just don't see improvements in speed anywhere even though I now have an SSD.
I only do Campaigns when I game and here is where I see a lack of performance. Hell, I even feel that I have lower FPSs than even before... I will try to add my old GTX260 for PhysX to see if that helps... even though a lot of people have told me that it will interfere a bit.
Another thing that has me perplexed is the fact that the Mobo treats my HDDs and my SSD as if they were USBs instead of SATA plugged in drives... I have not tried uninstalling or disabling this option but I will just to check.
I don't OC any of my builds so I have not done it here as well.
I have left the BIOS with default settings as much as possible and have changed a few things that really should not make any difference in performance... things like silent fans (temps are more than ok), things like ASRock image at beginning of Bios startup since I like to see the post do its thing.
Being a totally new Mobo I may have to do some reading or changes that I perhaps have not done but I would think that I should be feeling an immediate performance just by this switch in builds?
Any words of advice? anything that you guys feel I should change or look for? I am open to any suggestion as this point as my disappointment is vast.
I used some of the components from my old build to make this one because they were good enough to use.
OLD BUILD...
Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
TT Speedo Advance Case
PC Power & Cooling 750 Silence PSU
Intel Q9650 w/CM V8 Cooler
EVGA 780 SLI FTW Mobo
Corsair Dominator 8GBs 1066Mhz DDR2 Ram
EVGA GTX260 + MSI 9500GT (PhysX)
WD Velociraptor 300GB HDD (OS)
Samsung 750 + 1TB HDD for Storage
About a month or so I was able to acquire a new Asus GTX 660 OC 2GBs GPU so I took out the GTX260 and I felt a bit of a better performance but more so eye candy than anything else.
There was a Hot Deal for an ASRock z87 Extreme 6 Mobo + i5-4670K haswell that I couldn't resist and I went for it, but of course I needed to buy RAM as well and I did so here is.
NEW BUILD
Win 7 ultimate 64 bit
TT Speedo Advance Case (from old build)
PC Power & Cooling 750w Silencer PSU
ASRock Z87 Extreme 6 Mobo
i5-4670K Hasswell CPU
G-Skill Ripjaws 8GBs 2133 DDR3 RAM
Asus GTX660 OC 2GB GPU
Samsung 840 SSD 120 GB (OS... also added as new addition)
Samsung 750 + 1.5 TB HDD for Storage (from old build)
Startup seems faster but this is always the case with a new build, I just don't see improvements in speed anywhere even though I now have an SSD.
I only do Campaigns when I game and here is where I see a lack of performance. Hell, I even feel that I have lower FPSs than even before... I will try to add my old GTX260 for PhysX to see if that helps... even though a lot of people have told me that it will interfere a bit.
Another thing that has me perplexed is the fact that the Mobo treats my HDDs and my SSD as if they were USBs instead of SATA plugged in drives... I have not tried uninstalling or disabling this option but I will just to check.
I don't OC any of my builds so I have not done it here as well.
I have left the BIOS with default settings as much as possible and have changed a few things that really should not make any difference in performance... things like silent fans (temps are more than ok), things like ASRock image at beginning of Bios startup since I like to see the post do its thing.
Being a totally new Mobo I may have to do some reading or changes that I perhaps have not done but I would think that I should be feeling an immediate performance just by this switch in builds?
Any words of advice? anything that you guys feel I should change or look for? I am open to any suggestion as this point as my disappointment is vast.