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Hi,
Just a quick warning. My thoughts are a bit scattered due to holidays and work. I am blessed working for a company has seems to have unlimited overtime and the work is for the most part fairly easy to deal with.
Just as the title says. How well do Intel's Q9550 and ATI5870 hold up these days? The rest of the specs are in the sig below. I try to follow the hardware advancements but over the past couple of years I really do not game all that much anymore due to focusing on other things like life, my family, work and other activities. The newest piece of hard ware is a Samsung 840Pro 256GB SSD. It made it feel much quicker.
I starting getting the idea to upgrade this desktop. My new Toshiba laptop is an i7 Haswell which is pretty quick on Windows 8. (The whole Windows8 was a pain to get use too but works on this laptop.) That got the same Samsung SSD as the main rig. My laptop loves it. The Samsung hard drive politely reminded me the Sata 2 ports of the motherboard are going to affect the overall speed of the drive since the drive is a SATA3. i have been using USB3 flash drives more. I see the marginal speed difference when copying a file for work.
Here is where I am at. I was thinking about going to AMD for an A10 based CPU. However when I did some basic research it doesn't look like more of an upgrade but a downgrade/side grade in some specs. I priced out an Intel i5, which I think would be an upgrade over a Q9550 but when I really looked at it, it's going to be several hundred bucks for just a board, CPU, and RAM. Then add in some more cash for a GPU since the on board option is meh at best. Better than the old days. Add some more cash for an aftermarkt CPU cooler since my current cooler does not have the option for 1155/1150 boards. I tried to catch up on the GPUs and was lost
That lead me to thinking about how much will I really use this desktop based system.
Pros
DDR3 RAM
SATA3 ports (hard drive will be happy)
USB 3.0 ports (flash drives will be happy)
Future upgrading possibility when it comes GPUs or any other add on card.
Cons
spending how much to get that.
Intel GPU is better than before but still eh
AMD is a side or even a downgrade from what I have which is sad cause I really liked AMD when they had a killer Athlon XP product on the market.
BTW, one idea I have is ditching the desktop all together and use the laptop for everything. However, my wife uses both the laptop web work and a tablet for reading and games for our daughter. I still like using a keyboard and a mouse Before the vultures come out, my main rig would be replacing the computer in the shop. That is an AMD unit which just seemed to be overwhelmed with the concept of starting up LOL. just kidding. I think it might be a ram issue (not enough of it and it is DDR2) which means I am not going to spend money on it.
I am kind of looking for an opinion of which direction to go with this one. I find myself kinda at a cross roads with a new build. Before it would have been, New build no problem. Now it's a new build? Really? Did that much time pass me by already! What do you mean COD4 is not a relevant game anymore?
Just a quick warning. My thoughts are a bit scattered due to holidays and work. I am blessed working for a company has seems to have unlimited overtime and the work is for the most part fairly easy to deal with.
Just as the title says. How well do Intel's Q9550 and ATI5870 hold up these days? The rest of the specs are in the sig below. I try to follow the hardware advancements but over the past couple of years I really do not game all that much anymore due to focusing on other things like life, my family, work and other activities. The newest piece of hard ware is a Samsung 840Pro 256GB SSD. It made it feel much quicker.
I starting getting the idea to upgrade this desktop. My new Toshiba laptop is an i7 Haswell which is pretty quick on Windows 8. (The whole Windows8 was a pain to get use too but works on this laptop.) That got the same Samsung SSD as the main rig. My laptop loves it. The Samsung hard drive politely reminded me the Sata 2 ports of the motherboard are going to affect the overall speed of the drive since the drive is a SATA3. i have been using USB3 flash drives more. I see the marginal speed difference when copying a file for work.
Here is where I am at. I was thinking about going to AMD for an A10 based CPU. However when I did some basic research it doesn't look like more of an upgrade but a downgrade/side grade in some specs. I priced out an Intel i5, which I think would be an upgrade over a Q9550 but when I really looked at it, it's going to be several hundred bucks for just a board, CPU, and RAM. Then add in some more cash for a GPU since the on board option is meh at best. Better than the old days. Add some more cash for an aftermarkt CPU cooler since my current cooler does not have the option for 1155/1150 boards. I tried to catch up on the GPUs and was lost
That lead me to thinking about how much will I really use this desktop based system.Pros
DDR3 RAM
SATA3 ports (hard drive will be happy)
USB 3.0 ports (flash drives will be happy)
Future upgrading possibility when it comes GPUs or any other add on card.
Cons
spending how much to get that.
Intel GPU is better than before but still eh
AMD is a side or even a downgrade from what I have which is sad cause I really liked AMD when they had a killer Athlon XP product on the market.
BTW, one idea I have is ditching the desktop all together and use the laptop for everything. However, my wife uses both the laptop web work and a tablet for reading and games for our daughter. I still like using a keyboard and a mouse
Before the vultures come out, my main rig would be replacing the computer in the shop. That is an AMD unit which just seemed to be overwhelmed with the concept of starting up LOL. just kidding. I think it might be a ram issue (not enough of it and it is DDR2) which means I am not going to spend money on it. I am kind of looking for an opinion of which direction to go with this one. I find myself kinda at a cross roads with a new build. Before it would have been, New build no problem. Now it's a new build? Really? Did that much time pass me by already! What do you mean COD4 is not a relevant game anymore?
