I'm looking to do a downgrade here. Basically from a slightly undervolted and underclocked i7-920 with 12GB RAM and a AMD HD 5870, to a FX-4100 and either an AMD HD 7770 or 7850.
My reasons:
I don't use this system to it's full extent. I haven't played BF3 in 3 months, now I only play DOTA2, watch anime and typical web browsing and school work. I used to have 2 5870's but took one out.
Save power and heat. It can make a noticeable difference in temperature in my room and we are having high electricity bills, being in Texas and in a very low end budget apartment.
Sell of my parts to fund other things. I'm looking at the Nexus 7 Tablet that will be released soon. I'm a poor student and any money is helpful. Microcenter has an FX-4100 + Motherboard for $110 (-$10 MIR, +$9 tax). I also have a Corsair H50 and sound card that will net me some more money.
I have an SSD that I will keep, so I"m not expecting almost ANY noticeable difference in my systems performance UNLESS I decide to fire up BF3, another graphics intensive game or decide to benchmark/encode (don't do either really). Even in a graphics intensive game most of the loss in performance would be from my GPU downgrade, and I could still play BF3 on low-medium settings with a FX-4100 + 7770 at 1920x1200 I would imagine.
Just looking for any advice, feedback, or things I'm overlooking. As always, +rep for useful input. I'll also be starting a appraisal thread once I catalog my exact parts.
My reasons:
I don't use this system to it's full extent. I haven't played BF3 in 3 months, now I only play DOTA2, watch anime and typical web browsing and school work. I used to have 2 5870's but took one out.
Save power and heat. It can make a noticeable difference in temperature in my room and we are having high electricity bills, being in Texas and in a very low end budget apartment.
Sell of my parts to fund other things. I'm looking at the Nexus 7 Tablet that will be released soon. I'm a poor student and any money is helpful. Microcenter has an FX-4100 + Motherboard for $110 (-$10 MIR, +$9 tax). I also have a Corsair H50 and sound card that will net me some more money.
I have an SSD that I will keep, so I"m not expecting almost ANY noticeable difference in my systems performance UNLESS I decide to fire up BF3, another graphics intensive game or decide to benchmark/encode (don't do either really). Even in a graphics intensive game most of the loss in performance would be from my GPU downgrade, and I could still play BF3 on low-medium settings with a FX-4100 + 7770 at 1920x1200 I would imagine.
Just looking for any advice, feedback, or things I'm overlooking. As always, +rep for useful input. I'll also be starting a appraisal thread once I catalog my exact parts.
