Upgrading PC - Advice needed

Instead of getting a z77 board, get something that can't overclock because you have no plans to. just save some cash, get this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130648

Seems like a ram problem to me. You only have 4gb of ram currently upgrading to 16gb corsair as you suggested will solve this problem.

Slow processing speed and high CPU load could also be caused by your hard drives being nearly full in conjunction with not enough ram available for use. Make sure you have enough space in your drives for Windows 8 and whatever you are working on/accessing.


You might as well get the 3570k it is 19$ more at ncix.ca (Canada for me - i don't know about you) and you can have the option of overclocking in the future if you are going to get into games or just need more umph! from your CPU.

I would also recommend buying a aftermarket CPU cooler as the stock Intel CPU coolers are not the greatest.

Also you have mentioned videos. I don't know if you are working on videos (encoding, editing and such), or just watching them. If you are encoding on videos then a CPU with hyper threading technology will definitely benefit you. The 3770k is a good solution for this.

I don't know sorry. I noticed the mobo you have chosen is lower priced 119$ on newegg. As far as price goes ASRock are generally the best motherboards cost/dollar.

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The parts you will not be reusing you can save and make a cheap NAS home server for storing media/files on for home network streaming. http://www.freenas.org/ if you are interested on reusing your parts for that purpose.

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http://pcpartpicker.com/ is a great website that lets you pick parts and build your PC. It searches parts from every manufacturer at every online retailer and finds you the best price for your country. It will also alert you if you have selected any parts that are incompatible. It will also display the amount of electricity your PC will be using.


Good Luck with your new build, Brian

Yes most mobo manufactures have 3yr warranty. I had a gigabyte board and it died too, was probably about 4yrs old so not a bad company in regards for build strengths/warranty.

Something like http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-z77ag45 is a great motherboard for your needs. It has 2 sata 6Gb/second ports for your 2 SSDs and 4 3Gb/s ports for your hard drive you plan on getting or any other utility cards you would want to add.

this is a z77 motherboard which means it is for the i5 third generation processors (ivy bridge processors) like the one you have chosen. I chose MSI boards out of preference. This one is cheaper than the one you have recommended, and has great thermal technology.

This bothers me. From what I can see it might be that you have all of your case fans installed incorrectly. Generally the top fan above the back of the motherboard should be an exhaust fan. The front fans should be intake that cool your hard drives and graphics card. Side fans should be intake as well and cool the general components.

The problem with having no exhaust fans is you create a "hot pocket" inside your pc.


I would recommend a Corsair H40 liquid cooler. it comes pre-installed with zero maintenance. Corsair products have excellent warranty (almost no questions asked RMA service), along with free lifetime technical support. This liquid cooler you would mount as an exhaust fan in the location i specified where the exhaust fan should be mounted. Make sure that the arrow on the fan points toward the outside of the case (i.e. it is for the direction of the airflow).

Yes you do not need the higher processor, the one you suggested is fine.

Sounds like your processor just cant handle the amount of tasks you have going at once. I would recommend checking your CPU load (by pressing Ctrl + Alt + delete) along with the temperature (the temperature monitor you have mentioned). Watch a few videos or whatever causes the problem and check to see if you pause the videos is there a spike in the load on the CPU and check the heat as well.


If you get a message that says "Warning Page Pool Memory Low" it means you need more ram. Happened to me before.

Best of luck with your build and your Nephew's - Brian


Edit: I dont know your skill level with computers or if this is just a technical problem you cannot solve but I would recommend watching some Instructional pc building videos like Newegg's 3 series PC building videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPIXAtNGGCw
Edited by brian1115 - 11/10/12 at 3:33pm

hope you looked at win 8 as I did the gui was terrible looking I think it would be hard to use/multitask mainly for a tablet or touch screen laptop but on a desktop esp multi monitor would look bad

iv considered going to linux b4 win8 if for some reason win7 dies or somthing

there also might even be compatibility issues with some of ur programs

windows 8 is still somewhat fresh your drivers might not be using say ur videocard as well as it could


^thats some of my opinion on win8 hope it can be of some use

im impressed u can use 16gb of ram i'v had about 20 tabs few utube facebook n whatnot open and was probly getting near 4gb-4gb

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Higgins909

yes?