40 Unique Guild Members 75 Level 85 characters 453 Website/Forum Members 8 Posts in 24 hours 9 Posts in 7 days 83604 Total Posts ismael is the last poster
40 Unique Guild Members 75 Level 85 characters 453 Website/Forum Members 8 Posts in 24 hours 9 Posts in 7 days 83604 Total Posts ismael is the last poster
So... my computer has been... somewhat good to me for about 3-4 years. But I want to upgrade. I know some of you think this kind of stuff is fun to do if you're bored... so throw me a bone if you feel up to it. I'd like to have it done sometime in the next couple months.
WARNING: Backstory Incoming. Those not interested, skip these two paragraphs now.
The problem is a small few of you may know about the relentless memory problems my computer has had. At first, league of legends was the only game that would crash, and it was intermittent. Then... it got a lot worse and happened every time I played, and almost always right away. Ganner and Chops helped tirelessly using remote desktop to try and fix this issue. It appears my graphics card and ram were all fucked up, so I replaced them. And a processor. And a heat sink. And fan.
Even though these upgrades fixed my 'league-crashes-every-time' problem, they never REALLY made it 100% better. The blue screens started reappearing not long after. And while they come and go at varying rates, sometimes multiple times a day, sometimes once every few days, in games, out of games... they're still present. Maybe I've just had bad luck with ram, maybe my motherboard's a piece of shit, maybe I just need to call it a wash and start over. But I feel like I can justify another $700-800 or so on a new machine if that's the easiest thing.
THINGS I DON'T NEED:
A monitor, a mouse, a keyboard, speakers... all that external shit.
THINGS I DO NEED:
Basically everything else. Probably even down to a case.
SPECIAL REQUESTS:
A good enough fan to not overheat the poor thing. I don't want to make that mistake twice cause I'm pretty sure that's what caused my problems in the first place. Oh, also me repeatedly smacking the side of my computer really hard when the first fan I had started to make noise.
HARD DRIVE - Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM. $109.99 Hard drive prices have gone up a lot, I forget why, but it sucks. I got my Seagate 2tb hard drive for like 60 bucks a year ago. If you can get by with your own hard drive this will save you a lot. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148697
Also use MSI Afterburner to monitor your GPU temp and fan speeds. If I let my GPU run with the automatic fan speed thing it always keeps it running at around 100deg C which is insanely hot, so I manually set it to like 85% fan speed when I'm gaming and it stays at around 60-70 degrees.
This is with a GTX 470 too, which runs insanely hot compared to the GTX 560/570/580 series.
I like this. The only thing I'm not sure about is the graphics card: I'm not sure if you should grab a 560 Ti or a 480 GTX. I know the GTX 480 outperforms the 560 Ti in general cases apart from specific makes/overclocked editions, but I believe it's louder and more power hungry or something. Also the 560 Ti outperforms it in texture shading, whatever that means, but it seems like the 480 outperforms in general.
Okay. Reformatting my hard drive and reusing my burner might not be a big deal, since I reeeaally doubt either have contributed to my current PC issues.
My current hard drive, I believe, (since I'm at work and I can't confirm 100%) is a Seagate 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb 32MB cache . There's clearly no reason this would be a downgrade in performance or incompatable, correct?
Also, a question on Windows 7... I don't have my disk or info for my current account. I'm typically not a big tard ass about that stuff, but I totally misplaced this. If I can scrounge up a Windows 7 dvd somewhere and install it, can I contact microsoft for all my account info or am I screwed and need to purchase it again? Has anyone had to do this?
Okay. Reformatting my hard drive and reusing my burner might not be a big deal, since I reeeaally doubt either have contributed to my current PC issues.
My current hard drive, I believe, (since I'm at work and I can't confirm 100%) is a Seagate 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb 32MB cache . There's clearly no reason this would be a downgrade in performance or incompatable, correct?
Also, a question on Windows 7... I don't have my disk or info for my current account. I'm typically not a big tard ass about that stuff, but I totally misplaced this. If I can scrounge up a Windows 7 dvd somewhere and install it, can I contact microsoft for all my account info or am I screwed and need to purchase it again? Has anyone had to do this?
you can also just use any one of a million windows loaders that bypass all microsoft security and let you run it as a genuine copy anyway
considering you've already legitimately purchased it I don't feel this should cause any moral conundrums for you
also your hard drive is perfectly fine and will run just as well as anything besides an SSD, but SSDs are small and cost a million dollars
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