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so Ive been out of the game for a while, so I am hoping to get some brotherly love here.
Ive been using my Wifes PC at home in the Basement for when I need to do extra work, unfortunately the PC is a bit old, it does hold its own, but its becoming less stable, and there seems to be this Bending of the GPU socket which forces the PC to restart sometimes, and other times to never boot up.
Basically it is becoming too much of a hassle for me to fix every day and I am obviously worries about it biting the dust and dieing.
I do use the PC for Work purposes, and Gaming when time permits it, usually if the kids are in bed.
She currently has the following setup,
Q9300 Stock w/ Zalman CNPS9500 (I believe thats the one, looks right)
8GB G.Skill DDR2 800 (4x2GB)
MSI P7N Platinum SLI
2x XFX 9800 GT with some Zalman Copper cooler of some form, not running SLI any more cus of the unstableness
ABS Tagan BZ Series 900W modular (she got it cus its got lights...)
all in a pretty cramped Apevia X-Jupiter Jr G-Type
Now the easy option would be to find a 775 motherboard, but I get the feeling that people will be selling these for less than a fair price so Im not so sure it is worth it. Plus the q9300 processor and Ram do not like to overclock at all, but I am going to blame that on the MSI motherboard.
I dont have a whole lot of money so i need to do this as cheaply as possible. But I am an OCN'er and I refuse to have lame equipment!
so help me out guys, maybe I could get away with a 1155 mobo and processor easily enough?
Maybe someone knows of a good deal on a great 775 mobo?
Reps to all those who take the time.
Ive been using my Wifes PC at home in the Basement for when I need to do extra work, unfortunately the PC is a bit old, it does hold its own, but its becoming less stable, and there seems to be this Bending of the GPU socket which forces the PC to restart sometimes, and other times to never boot up.
Basically it is becoming too much of a hassle for me to fix every day and I am obviously worries about it biting the dust and dieing.
I do use the PC for Work purposes, and Gaming when time permits it, usually if the kids are in bed.
She currently has the following setup,
Q9300 Stock w/ Zalman CNPS9500 (I believe thats the one, looks right)
8GB G.Skill DDR2 800 (4x2GB)
MSI P7N Platinum SLI
2x XFX 9800 GT with some Zalman Copper cooler of some form, not running SLI any more cus of the unstableness
ABS Tagan BZ Series 900W modular (she got it cus its got lights...)
all in a pretty cramped Apevia X-Jupiter Jr G-Type
Now the easy option would be to find a 775 motherboard, but I get the feeling that people will be selling these for less than a fair price so Im not so sure it is worth it. Plus the q9300 processor and Ram do not like to overclock at all, but I am going to blame that on the MSI motherboard.
I dont have a whole lot of money so i need to do this as cheaply as possible. But I am an OCN'er and I refuse to have lame equipment!
so help me out guys, maybe I could get away with a 1155 mobo and processor easily enough?
Maybe someone knows of a good deal on a great 775 mobo?
Reps to all those who take the time.