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So, I'm pretty convinced at this point that the SATA controlled on my veteren EVGA Z68 SLI Micro is starting to go south. A wealth of ATAPI error on the controller, but zero SMART indicators on any of the hard drives has me thinking this way (Kingston SSD Toolkit and Western Digital Data Lifeguard back up this theory, no bad sectors on any drive and 100% life cycle remaining on SSD).
I've also got a feeling either my i5-2500k or the chipset or VRM are starting to faulter too, because for 3 years she was running steady at 4.4GHz @ 1.195v, and now all of a sudden increasing the voltage above stock even slightly results in ridiculous load temps and it simply will not go above 4.0GHz regardless of voltage or other variables. Even with everything at default and the CPU fans running at jet turbine speed, I'm seeing 50-60C idle temps in a room with an ambient temperature of 20C - tried 3 different coolers (H75, Freezer Pro 7, Akasa Venom) and even bought some expensive cooler master thermal paste and no change.
Essentially, I want to change the motherboard - which is also going to involve changing the CPU as there is no cost effective way to get hold of a decent Z68 board these days
These are my considerations:
AMD FX8350 + MSI Gaming 990FX = £263.27 (Inc Shipping)
Intel i5-4690k + MSI Gaming 5 Z97 = £303.23 (Inc Shipping)
all I do on this PC is game (rest of the spec in sig) - nothing CPU intense really at all, which is why I discounted the prospect of going for an i7.
I'm planning on building an all new machine on Skylake or Haswell-E in the near future, so I'm not looking to do much really other than make this PC stable for the foreseeable, so I can carry on gaming! Out of those two, or any other similar combo you can recommend; do you think offers the best price/performance ratio for gaming?
So, I'm pretty convinced at this point that the SATA controlled on my veteren EVGA Z68 SLI Micro is starting to go south. A wealth of ATAPI error on the controller, but zero SMART indicators on any of the hard drives has me thinking this way (Kingston SSD Toolkit and Western Digital Data Lifeguard back up this theory, no bad sectors on any drive and 100% life cycle remaining on SSD).
I've also got a feeling either my i5-2500k or the chipset or VRM are starting to faulter too, because for 3 years she was running steady at 4.4GHz @ 1.195v, and now all of a sudden increasing the voltage above stock even slightly results in ridiculous load temps and it simply will not go above 4.0GHz regardless of voltage or other variables. Even with everything at default and the CPU fans running at jet turbine speed, I'm seeing 50-60C idle temps in a room with an ambient temperature of 20C - tried 3 different coolers (H75, Freezer Pro 7, Akasa Venom) and even bought some expensive cooler master thermal paste and no change.
Essentially, I want to change the motherboard - which is also going to involve changing the CPU as there is no cost effective way to get hold of a decent Z68 board these days
These are my considerations:
AMD FX8350 + MSI Gaming 990FX = £263.27 (Inc Shipping)
Intel i5-4690k + MSI Gaming 5 Z97 = £303.23 (Inc Shipping)
all I do on this PC is game (rest of the spec in sig) - nothing CPU intense really at all, which is why I discounted the prospect of going for an i7.
I'm planning on building an all new machine on Skylake or Haswell-E in the near future, so I'm not looking to do much really other than make this PC stable for the foreseeable, so I can carry on gaming! Out of those two, or any other similar combo you can recommend; do you think offers the best price/performance ratio for gaming?