Upgrade AMD or swap to Intel??

suraswami · Feb 27, 2014

TristanD27 said:
Try sleeping with your head under it, it is not a light PC, but it's pretty sturdy, might put an extra bracket or two on though for piece of mind.

If you are in Earthquake prone zone, then its not a good idea, you need to strap it to the wall! Even then its not a good idea!

TristanD27 · Feb 27, 2014

suraswami said:
If you are in Earthquake prone zone, then its not a good idea, you need to strap it to the wall! Even then its not a good idea!

No I'm in the UK, rarely get any and and if we do it's barely anything. I have a loop bolt on either side with string going around the front but it's that heavy it's not going to get knocked forward accidentally, more likely the shelf with break then the PC will fall off.

eidairaman1 · Feb 28, 2014

Hey Man Great Minds Think Alike- You have my Case, (Mines the same but Evil Blue Edition)

TristanD27 said:
Thanks, I love white cases, they look clean and futuristic, think of every sci-fi film you've ever seen, the white weapons, big white rooms, white clothes.. I love it.
Thanks for that, didn't realise they have image hosting, I will upload the upgrade pics there.
What do you think of my cable management, took me about an hour to sort out. I might replace the blue cold cathodes with white LED strips, and when I eventually upgrade the board I'll get a black one and try to get some white RAM. One small thing I am going to include in my current upgrade is some white braided extensions for the 8pin CPU, 2x8pin GPU and two sata power splitters one for the blur-ray and dvd and one for the HDD and SSD, just need to find some white sata data cables and a white 24pin extension and I will be happy.

TristanD27 · Feb 28, 2014

eidairaman1 said:
Hey Man Great Minds Think Alike- You have my Case, (Mines the same but Evil Blue Edition)

The blue on looks really cool too. There was a video on youtube, I'll see if I can find it, someone had moded the white so it was PURE white and got custom parts, every little thing was white, it was beautiful!! Even a sabertooth board with custom white shielding so the whole board was white.

The video has gone private now

It has a custom white cover for the GPU, white liquid in the watercooling, white braided cables, white cover on the RAM it was the most crisp, clean looking PC I have every seen.

TristanD27 · Feb 28, 2014

Payday, woop! Everything is ordered now, should be here tomorrow, Monday latest. I'll post pics up when it's done and benchmarks if anyone's interested? Thanks again everyone

so happy and it's not even here yet.

Vario · Feb 28, 2014

TristanD27 said:
Payday, woop! Everything is ordered now, should be here tomorrow, Monday latest. I'll post pics up when it's done and benchmarks if anyone's interested? Thanks again everyone so happy and it's not even here yet.

Sure, you should bench quite well with a 770 and a 8320!

suraswami · Feb 28, 2014

TristanD27 said:
Payday, woop! Everything is ordered now, should be here tomorrow, Monday latest. I'll post pics up when it's done and benchmarks if anyone's interested? Thanks again everyone so happy and it's not even here yet.

What did you finally order?

TristanD27 · Feb 28, 2014

suraswami said:
What did you finally order?

EVGA GTX 770 2GB Overclocked, AMD 8350, 120GB Samsung EVO SSD, a few white braided extension cables and two white LED strips to replace the the two blue and two UV cold cathodes.

What's the best benchmarking software to use? Never really bothered before but I think I should now

Vario · Feb 28, 2014

3dmark11, 3dmark (the new one with firestrike, its just called "3dmark"), Unigen Heaven and Unigen Valley, Wprime, superpi

TristanD27 · Feb 28, 2014

Vario said:
3dmark11, 3dmark (the new one with firestrike, its just called "3dmark"), Unigen Heaven and Unigen Valley, Wprime, superpi

I see you've done this once or twice

I think I used unigen valley once, any particular and/or popular one you'd suggest out of those?

Vario · Feb 28, 2014

They are all free so I'd recommend em all! I like 3dmark11 because it is a great way to see how your system stacks up to others. Wprime is great for testing CPU performance. Unigen Valley is nice for testing videocard overclock because it can be run on a loop and the scenery is very pleasing to watch.

suraswami · Mar 1, 2014

Use IBT (Intel Burn Test) to test CPU stability, will help when you OC or when you want to under volt.

I use Samsung Magician to benchmark SSDs.

If you are not aware you need to do bunch of things (OS settings) for your new SSD to perform at its best, when you are ready I can point you to a guide.

Actually here is the guide.

http://www.tech-forums.net/forums/f128/ssd-tweak-guide-236563/

Your Magician software does the same changes, but I like to do it myself so I know what I did lol!

And Oh welcome to the 'FX' club!

HammerON · Mar 1, 2014

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/3dmark-2013.179767/
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/new-3dmark-11-compilation.135908/
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/unigine-heaven-4-0-benchmark-scores.190386/
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/unigine-valley-benchmark-scores.183712/

You can compare your scores against others here at TPU when you get your sysytem up and running

TristanD27 · Mar 1, 2014

Thanks vario, I think I'll try 3Dmark11, Wprime and unigen valley, I remember seeing unigen on a video and thought, damn, that's a nice looking game, then realised it was a benchmark so tried it but I'll get much better scores today.

Also thanks suraswami for the guide, I wasn't aware of that, I'll definitely to it once I'm up and running. Oh and, it's good to be here

And thanks HammerON, I'll post them all up when done, first lot will probably be without OCing, need to do a bit more research into the best way to OC, never done much before, don't want to push it too far, I don't need to, but a nice safe OC would be nice

TristanD27 · Mar 1, 2014

Got everything!!! But... I forgot one very important thing... Thermal paste, off to town I go to get some >.<

BarbaricSoul · Mar 1, 2014

TristanD27 said:
Got everything!!! But... I forgot one very important thing... Thermal paste, off to town I go to get some >.<

TheoneandonlyMrK · Mar 1, 2014

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhggh chocolate half
Price woot

TristanD27 · Mar 2, 2014

Got everything in and working, SSD is damn fast but do I need to re-install all of my program's and game or just drag a shortcut from the HDD to to the start menu? Maybe I can just drag all the files from the start menu folder on the HDD to the start menu folder on the SSD and just change the first letter of the file destination on each file to the new letter assigned to the old HDD? I can do most things but never had a fully functioning HDD and then put a new SSD in as the boot up and set it all up, I don't want to have to start copying files here there and everywhere, I have 800GB of files and nowhere to temporarily store then so if I can just change a few settings and have it all working like before I'll be happy.

Dent1 · Mar 2, 2014

TristanD27 said:
Got everything in and working, SSD is damn fast but do I need to re-install all of my program's and game or just drag a shortcut from the HDD to to the start menu? Maybe I can just drag all the files from the start menu folder on the HDD to the start menu folder on the SSD and just change the first letter of the file destination on each file to the new letter assigned to the old HDD? I can do most things but never had a fully functioning HDD and then put a new SSD in as the boot up and set it all up, I don't want to have to start copying files here there and everywhere, I have 800GB of files and nowhere to temporarily store then so if I can just change a few settings and have it all working like before I'll be happy.

To benefit from the SSD the actual applications has to be installed directly onto the SSD.

If you just put the shortcut on the SSD, the main files will remain on the regular HDD so you will get no benefit.

RCoon · Mar 2, 2014

Just reinstall the software, to ensure registry keys are installed properly. It's a sacrifice you have to make when you make the switch to SSD for the first time, or when you reinstall windows.

TristanD27 · Mar 2, 2014

Dent1 said:
To benefit from the SSD the actual applications has to be installed directly onto the SSD.

If you just put the shortcut on the SSD, the main files will remain on the regular HDD so you will get no benefit.

Yeah I know that but most program's will be installed on the HDD, the SSD is mainly for the OS and a couple of regularly used program's.

RCoon said:
Just reinstall the software, to ensure registry keys are installed properly. It's a sacrifice you have to make when you make the switch to SSD for the first time, or when you reinstall windows.

Oh yey -_- it's going to take a week to sort it all out, maybe more

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Upgrade AMD or swap to Intel??

suraswami

TristanD27

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

TristanD27

TristanD27

Vario

suraswami

TristanD27

Vario

TristanD27

Vario

suraswami

HammerON

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TristanD27

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TheoneandonlyMrK

TristanD27

Dent1

RCoon

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