Hi all,
I own a PC with an AMD Phenom II x4 955 BE CPU, I'd like to upgrade it.
I had bad luck with this PC, this was around 2010, first the people who sold me this gave me a crappy PSU and it stop working after like 2 days of bought. I took it to the store and they apoligize and replace it with a better PSU (not really), in the meantime the integrated audio did not work because of the PSU breakdown, I bought a PCI Sound card. After that, I get tired of fighting with these guys and get a Cooler Master 550w PSU, but a friend of mine that was supposed to be a HW tech screw it because the switch of the PSU was in 110v when we have 220v here in my country. It seems this time only the PSU got damaged. I put the old less crappy PSU back, because at the time I had not money to get a new one. The thing is it worked, but if I needed to use more than 1 core, I got a blue screen and the PC shut off (this still happens if I use more than 1 core.) For reasons of work I had to travel to other state and left the PC at home. Now, my sister use it, she only uses it for working with MS-Office and for surfing the web, so no problem except the Sound card died and I haven't replaced it.
Yesterday, I went to a PC store market and ask if there is a Motherboard for the CPU but most of them told me there was not a MB for it, until I find a store and the guy who work there told me the ASUS M5A78L-M was compatible with the CPU. He also told me it was compatible with FX 6300 and FX 8350, in the case I want to upgrade it. Is this true?
Actually, I don't want to spend too much money on this, only the necessary to see how it goes.
He recommend the following build:
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955 BE
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper EVO 212
MB: ASUS M5A78L-M
RAM: Kingston Fury Hyper X 4GB (I already have 4GB, so with this I would go for 8)
HDD: Seagate SATA III 1TB (I had a 240GB HDD)
SSD: Kingston 240GB
Case: Mid tower Thermaltake w/ 600W PSU
Not very interested in video cards, cause I don't play too much or do graphic design. The only game I play from time to time is Diablo II.
Other thing to have in mind is that the prices here are like +-20% more expensive than abroad.
What do you think? Is it any good?
Thanks in advance,
Carlos
PS: Sorry for my english, it is not my mother language.
I own a PC with an AMD Phenom II x4 955 BE CPU, I'd like to upgrade it.
I had bad luck with this PC, this was around 2010, first the people who sold me this gave me a crappy PSU and it stop working after like 2 days of bought. I took it to the store and they apoligize and replace it with a better PSU (not really), in the meantime the integrated audio did not work because of the PSU breakdown, I bought a PCI Sound card. After that, I get tired of fighting with these guys and get a Cooler Master 550w PSU, but a friend of mine that was supposed to be a HW tech screw it because the switch of the PSU was in 110v when we have 220v here in my country. It seems this time only the PSU got damaged. I put the old less crappy PSU back, because at the time I had not money to get a new one. The thing is it worked, but if I needed to use more than 1 core, I got a blue screen and the PC shut off (this still happens if I use more than 1 core.) For reasons of work I had to travel to other state and left the PC at home. Now, my sister use it, she only uses it for working with MS-Office and for surfing the web, so no problem except the Sound card died and I haven't replaced it.
Yesterday, I went to a PC store market and ask if there is a Motherboard for the CPU but most of them told me there was not a MB for it, until I find a store and the guy who work there told me the ASUS M5A78L-M was compatible with the CPU. He also told me it was compatible with FX 6300 and FX 8350, in the case I want to upgrade it. Is this true?
Actually, I don't want to spend too much money on this, only the necessary to see how it goes.
He recommend the following build:
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955 BE
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper EVO 212
MB: ASUS M5A78L-M
RAM: Kingston Fury Hyper X 4GB (I already have 4GB, so with this I would go for 8)
HDD: Seagate SATA III 1TB (I had a 240GB HDD)
SSD: Kingston 240GB
Case: Mid tower Thermaltake w/ 600W PSU
Not very interested in video cards, cause I don't play too much or do graphic design. The only game I play from time to time is Diablo II.
Other thing to have in mind is that the prices here are like +-20% more expensive than abroad.
What do you think? Is it any good?
Thanks in advance,
Carlos
PS: Sorry for my english, it is not my mother language.