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Thunderheart

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Happy Halloween!

For context my skill level is "strong intermediate skills". I know my stuff but I couldn't walk into an IT job.

And...I give up. I have an AMD M5A97 R2.0 with an FX 832 CPU. I've been fighting with ongoing system crashes for three years and I have done everything to get it stop and I give up. There is a ghost in this machine and this is my last ASUS motherboard...ever.

So I'm looking for:

(1) hardware choices and recommendations on a good replacement candidates for a motherboard/CPU. Used for gaming. Looking at Intel.

(2) Any general advice you'd like to share on swapping out the mobo+CPU

What's in the machine now
Mother Board M5A97 R2.0
CPU AMD FX 8320 Eight Core
RAM 4, 8GB DDR3-1600 UDIMM 1.5v, Kit of 4 from Crucial
Video Card GEForce GTX 970 4GB Video card
Platter Hard Drive i TB WD Blue SATA III
SSD OCZ ARC 100 series 480GB SSD
OS I own a full version of windows 10 pro


I want to replace these
Mother Board M5A97 R2.0
CPU AMD FX 8320 Eight Core


Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor ($199.89 @ B&H)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - M9i 48.4 CFM CPU Cooler ($18.99 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z370 HD3 (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($101.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($146.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $467.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-11-13 19:17 EST-0500

With 32GB of memory for whatever reason.
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So far I've picked out:

Mobo:
ASRock Z270 Extreme 4
Socket Type: LGA 1151

CPU
Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge Quad-Core 3.4GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W BX80637I73770 Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000

RAM
CORSAIR Vengeance LED 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Desktop Memory Model CMU32GX4M2C3000C15R

The video card and drives are being kept.

If anyone with some extra smarts could take a look and let me know if there are any obvious problems, I sure would appreciate it.

Thanks!
 
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Asus is one of the best motherboard manufacturer's around. You should probably blame AMD instead for making a mini space heater. All jokes aside. The 3770 won't work with a z270 board as the CPU is LGA1155. Equivalent compatible CPU would be the 7700k.
 
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Thunderheart

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Thanks Paul! How about that Ram?

Krzyimprt: Never again. I've had 3 ASUS motherboards and in all three cases I spent weeks or months troubleshooting the problems only to find out that the root cause was the motherboard.

I will never buy ASUS again. Never ever.



 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor ($199.89 @ B&H)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - M9i 48.4 CFM CPU Cooler ($18.99 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z370 HD3 (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($101.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($146.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $467.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-11-13 19:17 EST-0500

With 32GB of memory for whatever reason.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor ($199.89 @ B&H)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - M9i 48.4 CFM CPU Cooler ($18.99 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z370 HD3 (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($101.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($312.49 @ Amazon)
Total: $633.35
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-11-13 19:21 EST-0500
 
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