Good day everyone,
I have been lurking and reading quite a bit over the last week since I discovered Tomshardware.
Today is my first post on the forum woohoo! hehe
I am currently looking to upgrade my PC at home, I mostly use it for streaming and gaming.
The system I have at the moment is as follows:
MSI AM1I AMD AM1 Chipset SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini-ITX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon 5350 Socket Athlon Quad-Core (2.05GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 4x Cores) APU
Crucial 8GB 1600MHz 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3
Intel 120 GB SSD
Seagate 500 GB HHD
Gigabyte Geforce 950 GTX - Recently acquired
750W Power supply
I am looking to upgrade my motherboard, CPU and RAM. As I am from South Africa my prices will be converted from Rands to US Dollars as I got it from one of our local suppliers.
They are as follows:
ASUS M5A97 R2.0, AM3+, AMD 970 Chipset, ATX - $ 126.00
AMD Vishera FX-8320, 3.50GHz, Octa Core, AM3+, Black Edition - $ 205.00
Corsair Vengeance Pro, 16GB Kit, DDR3-2133, CL11, Silver - $ 107.00
Additionally I have also included system cooling as follows:
Cooler Master Hyper 212X, with 120mm PWM Fan - $ 39.00
Corsair AF120 Performance, 120mm, Black with No LED, Twin Pack - $ 34.00
This brings the total to approximately $ 511 at current exchange rates.
I see all RAM for AMD boards are available up to a maximum of 2133 Mhz so I got the cheapest one I could get that was available. The Corsair RAM is also two 8Gb chips as I read that AMD benefits from more bandwidth.
Also I am not sure if the extra cooling is that necessary, but I don't want to take any chances
Any advice would be much appreciated as I would like to be sure before investing my money.
Thanks,
Gerhard
I have been lurking and reading quite a bit over the last week since I discovered Tomshardware.
Today is my first post on the forum woohoo! hehe
I am currently looking to upgrade my PC at home, I mostly use it for streaming and gaming.
The system I have at the moment is as follows:
MSI AM1I AMD AM1 Chipset SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini-ITX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon 5350 Socket Athlon Quad-Core (2.05GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 4x Cores) APU
Crucial 8GB 1600MHz 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3
Intel 120 GB SSD
Seagate 500 GB HHD
Gigabyte Geforce 950 GTX - Recently acquired
750W Power supply
I am looking to upgrade my motherboard, CPU and RAM. As I am from South Africa my prices will be converted from Rands to US Dollars as I got it from one of our local suppliers.
They are as follows:
ASUS M5A97 R2.0, AM3+, AMD 970 Chipset, ATX - $ 126.00
AMD Vishera FX-8320, 3.50GHz, Octa Core, AM3+, Black Edition - $ 205.00
Corsair Vengeance Pro, 16GB Kit, DDR3-2133, CL11, Silver - $ 107.00
Additionally I have also included system cooling as follows:
Cooler Master Hyper 212X, with 120mm PWM Fan - $ 39.00
Corsair AF120 Performance, 120mm, Black with No LED, Twin Pack - $ 34.00
This brings the total to approximately $ 511 at current exchange rates.
I see all RAM for AMD boards are available up to a maximum of 2133 Mhz so I got the cheapest one I could get that was available. The Corsair RAM is also two 8Gb chips as I read that AMD benefits from more bandwidth.
Also I am not sure if the extra cooling is that necessary, but I don't want to take any chances
Any advice would be much appreciated as I would like to be sure before investing my money.
Thanks,
Gerhard
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