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hi, i have a fairly nice gaming pc that i bought last year that is great, however i am wanting to this week change the motherboard and cpu. i was silly enough to think it would be a case of taking out my old and putting in my new items but as i read on the net it became out of my depth. having to uninstall this and re install that and format and so on.

at the moment this is my pc layout

Amd phenom II x4 965
Asus crosshair IV formula MOBO
8gb corsair XMS3 ram
EVGA geforce gtx 660 FTW 2gb
corsair H60 liquid cooler
windows 7 ultimate OEM

this is what i am looking at buying

ASUS CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) Motherboard
AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 9370 4.40Ghz (Socket AM3+) Processor
windows 7 home OEM
its a £400+ upgrade and i dont want to blow up the pc due to not knowing what i am doing.


is this upgrade possible with the current items i have and am i being sensible for thinking of purchasing the items from novatech.co.uk and letting them install? i am yet to find out what they charge for installing the above as its giving me a head ache as it is but i would like to upgrade and like anyone with less cost and less risk of blowing it up.

hope somone can help as up against a wall at the moment and have spent lots on pcs games so dont want to quit on the pc as its a great little machine.

thanks
 
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If you are able to install the parts you should be fine. Some programs *MAY* need a re-install if they have anything to do with BIOS. Plug everything back into the new motherboard after installing the CPU and the PC should boot right up. I've done it twice on my current rig and haven't had an issue yet!

- Caleb
 
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thanks i think il pay novatech the £70 they quoted to install all 3 items then i have no worries and job is done. May make that back or partly selling removed parts.
 
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I suggest you go with the AMD build. Typically you're going to get a much better bang for your buck, and the cooler is a nice add-on! Unless you're an Intel fanboy the AMD bundle is much more cost efficient!
 
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i ended up going with the AMD 9590 + asus 990fx pro bare bone bundle and added my current evga gtx660 2gb and new ssd for OS. changed the arctic 30 cooler for a corsair H100i after trial.

very happy with machine and runs very cool for me with the help of nvidia precision x and the corsair link V2 software set up nicely (fans on balanced not performence so machine is quiet and very cool:).

cpu stays in the blue/green corsair safe temp zone, well under 50C on full load like installing 4 games whilst playing another to give it a run for its money and gpu hits a maximum of 61c on far cry 3 maxed and skyrim maxed on every single setting possible, no stutter no over heating. tested and confirmed heat reading by using other temperature reading programs and confirmed all correct. i must say that without the liquid cooler and precision x software the gpu heat was 70-80c and the amd 9590 would not run its turbo function from 4.7ghz to 5.1 ghz so recommend the software and cooler. very pleased with build.

thanks for help.
 
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