It's time to upgrade

[Devilz]

After 6 years of gaming abuse, it's time to upgrade from Quad-Core to Haswell. PC is still going strong with most games played on max/ultra settings @ 1080p but as new games are coming out every now and then with higher specs, I guess its wise to upgrade now

I will be upgrading core components of my PC i.e. Motherboard, CPU, GPU and RAM. All storage devices will be carried over.

Motherboard
Asus P5E3 will be replaced with Gigabyte GA-Z87X-D3H

CPU
Intel Quad-Core Q6600 will be replaced with Intel Core i5-4670k

GPU
2 XFX 5770's will be replaced with Gigabyte GeForce GTX770 OC Windforce 3X Graphics Card - 2GB

RAM
4 x 1GB Corsair XMS3 will be replaced with 8 GB DDR3-RAM PC1600 CL9 ADATA XPG V1.0

I will post the pics and benchmark results once parts are here

 

[PooMan UK]

Nice comparison over here Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs Core i5-4670K looks good pal

 

[Devilz]

GPU has been dispatched today.

Whoop whoop

 

[Devilz]

The beast has arrived today along with free Assassin Creed Black Flag cd key

 

[Devilz]

Motherboard and CPU has been dispatched as well

 

[StormTrooper]

The beast has arrived today along with free Assassin Creed Black Flag cd key

This is a beast

 

[Devilz]

Rest of the items has been dispatched as well.

 

[Devilz]

Got my CPU in post today

 

[AddRAM]

That`s a really nice video card box you have there

Can we see the card ? Please

 

[Devilz]

Here you go mate

 

[StormTrooper]

Here you go mate

That looks Sick bro.

 

[Devilz]

Memory has arrived as well. Motherboard is left before this build starts.

 

[Devilz]

Motherboard has arrived today. Built is about to begin. Will follow with pics

 

[Devilz]

This is how my case look from inside before built was start.

 

[Devilz]

All shiny new stuff along with storage devices.

 

[Devilz]

The finish product. Need to do better cable management. Also might install my Zalman cooler in future.

Only OS is left to be installed. Benchmarks to follow soon.

 

[Devilz]

Keep getting BSOD for some reason. Going to remove all storage devices, and use SSD for OS only

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Looking good and remember if you have one mobo cable running behind the mobo then almost all of them can get squeezed back there and the air flow and look of the rig will change drastically !

 

[linnemeyerhere]

I would cable tie all cables to the lower case support to keep from stopping that bottom case fan in the future !

 

[Devilz]

What about getting BSOD? I have unplugged all HDD and all other hardware. Will do wiring again and report back