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super_asgeir

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Hey guys!
I am a gamer that plays extensively, and I like having a good gaming rig as we all do. I bought a fairly nice pre-built computer a few years back and I never felt that it did as well as I had hoped it would. I am now looking for ways to improve my computer, or check out if there are any parts that are really bad that I could switch out. I'm not a big hardware guy, which is why I am turning to you.
My computer is used for everything, from work to school to movies to streaming to gaming.

Specs:
CM Storm Stryker Gaming Big Tower
Windows 10 64 bit OS
Intel Core i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHx (12 CPUs)
16384MB RAM (16 gigs)
DirectX 12
ASUS Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Z 12GB graphics card

Corsair RM850, 850W PSU - power
Corsair H55 Hydro Series CPU Cooler
MSI X99S SLI PLIS, Socket-2011-3 - motherboard
Crucial DDR4 2133MHx 8GB
HyperX 3k SSD 240GB - SSD
Seagate Barracuda 2TB - HDD


PS: Any help to improve post is welcome.
 
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Viking2121
Well, the i7 5820k is a decent CPU, but the stock clocks can hurt it in some cases, I recommend that you overclock it to at least 4ghz which might be possible on the H55, but I do not recommend that you let it run above 80C on the package/core. I suggest you read up on some guides and maybe watch a few videos if you want to overclock, its free performance.

16GB of ram, do you happen to know how the ram in installed and how many sticks of ram? running 4 sticks in quad channel can help some games, but might not even be noticeable unless you are CPU bound which is vary few games.

The best possible or noticeable upgrade would be the GPU, The Titan Z was overpriced when new, but it had a hard time out performing 2x 780ti's is many cases...
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Well, the i7 5820k is a decent CPU, but the stock clocks can hurt it in some cases, I recommend that you overclock it to at least 4ghz which might be possible on the H55, but I do not recommend that you let it run above 80C on the package/core. I suggest you read up on some guides and maybe watch a few videos if you want to overclock, its free performance.

16GB of ram, do you happen to know how the ram in installed and how many sticks of ram? running 4 sticks in quad channel can help some games, but might not even be noticeable unless you are CPU bound which is vary few games.

The best possible or noticeable upgrade would be the GPU, The Titan Z was overpriced when new, but it had a hard time out performing 2x 780ti's is many cases. Depending you your budget, I would upgrade the GPU to at least a GTX 1070 or better the GTX 1080 or all out a GTX 1080ti which would in pretty much all cases out perform the Titan Z.
 
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