MGCJerry
Limp Gawd
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- Sep 18, 2005
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The machine I have now is a bust (about to reach 3 years old). I can't trust it to do anything important without locking up and being stupid. I'm at the end of my rope and this poor case has taken a literal beating. Wasted too many days and swapped most of the hardware (except mobo & cpu) as well as many driver versions troubleshooting it. I'm done troubleshooting it. This aggravation has been months in the making.
I think the board is bad and instead of fighting with ASUS over an RMA I'm just going to replace it and curbstomp this board. I want to go back to an Intel based system. So, I want a new CPU & new board. I've been out of the loop for looooooong time so as far as good chipsets (ICH9 was bad ass), board/cpu combos, etc I'm now lost.
I have a small budget $350USD (strict!) for new components. I'm not a hardcore gamer, and my old H6770 1GB card has been adequate for my needs.
Due to some specific requirements, I'll be dualbooting WinXP & Win 7 (and possibly some linux flavor soon as well). I'm almost afraid of the Asus board I have in mind because the current board I have is an Asus, and it got hosed during a bios update and I had to buy a new bios chip (It was only a day old). #1 reason to buy socketed or redundant bios boards. Anyway, here's what I had in mind.
I would really like to get an i7, but there's no budget for it at this time so I'd like to go with an i5.
Board: ASUS Z87-A ($109.99)
CPU: i5-4590 ($194.99)
Misc: Shipping ($1.99)
Total: $306.97
Thoughts?
I'm going to be re-using all my other components, and the board and cpu will meet my 10lb hammer and my sawzall.
Edited!
Got the parts in today and spent some time rebuilding the system. I have it on air right now, and let it boot into my "old" windows 7 install. Had a few minor hiccups, but its running fine. I will reinstall Win7 at a later point, but I'm surprised how well its running now. Ran performance test and got a little better than what I had with the 8 core. Wow, AMD really is/was that far behind. The graph below is from "Performance Test" using my OC'd FX-8120 (3900MHz) vs stock i5-4470 (same Win7 install). Considering I was hoping to stay close to my current performance level, I think it did very well for $359 for an Intel build.
Thanks for the recommendations guys!
I think the board is bad and instead of fighting with ASUS over an RMA I'm just going to replace it and curbstomp this board. I want to go back to an Intel based system. So, I want a new CPU & new board. I've been out of the loop for looooooong time so as far as good chipsets (ICH9 was bad ass), board/cpu combos, etc I'm now lost.
I have a small budget $350USD (strict!) for new components. I'm not a hardcore gamer, and my old H6770 1GB card has been adequate for my needs.
Due to some specific requirements, I'll be dualbooting WinXP & Win 7 (and possibly some linux flavor soon as well). I'm almost afraid of the Asus board I have in mind because the current board I have is an Asus, and it got hosed during a bios update and I had to buy a new bios chip (It was only a day old). #1 reason to buy socketed or redundant bios boards. Anyway, here's what I had in mind.
I would really like to get an i7, but there's no budget for it at this time so I'd like to go with an i5.
Board: ASUS Z87-A ($109.99)
CPU: i5-4590 ($194.99)
Misc: Shipping ($1.99)
Total: $306.97
Thoughts?
I'm going to be re-using all my other components, and the board and cpu will meet my 10lb hammer and my sawzall.
Edited!
Got the parts in today and spent some time rebuilding the system. I have it on air right now, and let it boot into my "old" windows 7 install. Had a few minor hiccups, but its running fine. I will reinstall Win7 at a later point, but I'm surprised how well its running now. Ran performance test and got a little better than what I had with the 8 core. Wow, AMD really is/was that far behind. The graph below is from "Performance Test" using my OC'd FX-8120 (3900MHz) vs stock i5-4470 (same Win7 install). Considering I was hoping to stay close to my current performance level, I think it did very well for $359 for an Intel build.
Thanks for the recommendations guys!
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