Hi guys, I am currently running a somewhat "decent" rig at the moment.
Here are the specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 (Propus)
GPU: Diamond Radeon HD 5830 Crossfired with Gigabyte Radeon HD 5830
RAM: 8 Gigabytes. (2 sticks @ 2 gigabytes ea. from Microcenter) (2 sticks @ 2 gigabytes from OCZ)
Motherboard: MSI 870A-G54
PSU: 600w from OCZ "stealth"
I thought I'd be getting the BSOD when I grabbed those 2 sticks of ram from a different brand, but surprisingly I have only received it once and that was when I thought my single Diamond Radeon HD 5830 was starting to act up a bit (I overclocked it to about 845Mhz Core Clock Speed and close to 1200mhz for memory).
I, being a moron decided to try various methods of trying to unlock the mythical (maybe not?) L3 cache that apparently existed in Propus based processors for my CPU. I won't get into details but, lets just say I played with my Motherboard for a good 2 days...
Unfortunately, there was no L3 Cache for me.
The CPU had become extremely unstable but, after resetting the CMOS I was alright. Windows was booting properly and etc...
I have also tried to overclock the CPU to about 3.7ghz but was unsuccessful due to the stock cooler but, still was able to get 3.5ghz (Currently, I am using stock CPU settings).
Ever since then, my crossfired video cards have been acting strangely...
I feel that it may be a issue with my motherboard as well
I have updated my BIOS to the latest version.
I headed to a round of Battlefield 3 and I noticed that my Diamond 5830 card was just screaming.. I looked it up a bit and saw that the motherboard was running the Diamond card at 16x and my Gigabyte card at 1x... This resulted in me crashing from BF3 and the system rebooting with a problem I ran into earlier which is Windows 7 64bit Ultimate freezing at the loading screen (the screen where the windows sign glows).
I wanted to upgrade my CPU or GPU (I'm not sure if the problem is from my CPU or GPU) and was hoping for some good recommendations or (solutions) with a bang for your buck!
Hopefully right around the $150 range for both CPU and GPU would be awesome!
Here are the specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 (Propus)
GPU: Diamond Radeon HD 5830 Crossfired with Gigabyte Radeon HD 5830
RAM: 8 Gigabytes. (2 sticks @ 2 gigabytes ea. from Microcenter) (2 sticks @ 2 gigabytes from OCZ)
Motherboard: MSI 870A-G54
PSU: 600w from OCZ "stealth"
I thought I'd be getting the BSOD when I grabbed those 2 sticks of ram from a different brand, but surprisingly I have only received it once and that was when I thought my single Diamond Radeon HD 5830 was starting to act up a bit (I overclocked it to about 845Mhz Core Clock Speed and close to 1200mhz for memory).
I, being a moron decided to try various methods of trying to unlock the mythical (maybe not?) L3 cache that apparently existed in Propus based processors for my CPU. I won't get into details but, lets just say I played with my Motherboard for a good 2 days...
Unfortunately, there was no L3 Cache for me.
The CPU had become extremely unstable but, after resetting the CMOS I was alright. Windows was booting properly and etc...
I have also tried to overclock the CPU to about 3.7ghz but was unsuccessful due to the stock cooler but, still was able to get 3.5ghz (Currently, I am using stock CPU settings).
Ever since then, my crossfired video cards have been acting strangely...
I feel that it may be a issue with my motherboard as well
I have updated my BIOS to the latest version.
I headed to a round of Battlefield 3 and I noticed that my Diamond 5830 card was just screaming.. I looked it up a bit and saw that the motherboard was running the Diamond card at 16x and my Gigabyte card at 1x... This resulted in me crashing from BF3 and the system rebooting with a problem I ran into earlier which is Windows 7 64bit Ultimate freezing at the loading screen (the screen where the windows sign glows).
I wanted to upgrade my CPU or GPU (I'm not sure if the problem is from my CPU or GPU) and was hoping for some good recommendations or (solutions) with a bang for your buck!
Hopefully right around the $150 range for both CPU and GPU would be awesome!