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Started by Curley on 4:34am 18/8/11. 376 views and 15 posts, 0 users reading, last post by Curley.

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Hello.

I'm currently thinking about upgrading my system one piece at a time but I have no clue on what to do first especial due to the fact that I don't have a lot of money right now.

Would it be better for now to just purchase a decent CPU cooler and overclock it and if I did that would my terrible PSU be capable of doing so. At the moment I've managed to get it up to 3.95GHz before it runs way too hot (92c on max load) I'm also running an E6550 cooler.

Or should I just leave it as is?

inb4 bottlenecked system.

Current Parts
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Did you just make an account to tell me that on CG?
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generic 530w PSU could pose a problem, especially when overclocking.

Probably better off waiting until you have $500 or so and do a decent upgrade all at once.
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just upgrade your psu and find out what cpu's are compatible with your motherboard, AND DONT DO RAND OVERCLOCKS!
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If you dont have much money, then it would be wise not to buy anything else...
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Get a better psu..
Pehaps a cooler for some overclocks if you like.

from there the only other upgrades really worth doing would be a cpu/mobo/ram upgrade.
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Quote from apex. on the 18th of August 2011:
AND DONT DO RAND OVERCLOCKS
What exactly is a "rand overclock"?!?!

OT: I think I might just do that Kyrii.

Any suggestions on which cooler? I was thinking the CoolerMaster V8
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does not reccomend.. i have one and i hate it... fins are too close togehter and its a **** to clean the dirt out of it. which builds up..
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Thermaltake Fro ock
Thermalright Venomus X
Thermalright Silver Arrow
Noctua DH14


Depending on how much money you have you could buy youself a new case and mod it alittle
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Quote from Curley on the 18th of August 2011:
What exactly is a "rand overclock"?!?!

you have a bad memory curley don't you remember that bios update that stopped your games crashing and the overheating that a bad overclock was causing....
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I never did a bad overclock? It was the fact that I hadn't any motherboard drivers installed that it was overheating D:

Cause as soon as I popped them on, as well as the BIOS flash my CPU dropped like 30c
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it went down to 30c because the bios update reset your overclock lol, i remember you telling me it reset it.
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Well of course it's going to reset... IT DOES THAT WHEN YOU DO A BIOS FLASH.

EDIT: Then I overclocked afterwards and it was not overheating, thus proving that the updates helped.
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