I just upgraded to the latest Ivy Bridge. I pretty happy with it. Multi tasking seems much smoother now things seem to load up just hair faster. Haven't had a chance to fire up a game yet since it was late by the time I finished. I only upgraded the CPU, Motherboard and Ram. Specs listed below.
I had Intel Core 2 duo Conroe 3.0g, 4G Ram, and ASUS P5n-e Sli MB. And now have I5 3570K, G.Skill 8G ram, ASUS P8Z77 MB. The new mother board has all kinds of overclocking features, which I haven't tried. But I'm not really into overclocking so I probably won't mess with that.
I'll definitely get an SSD in the future. I didn't really have any issues just plugging in my hdd with the existing Win7 install, it did seem to mess up my Nvidia driver and Norton AV and some other not that important programs. But just reinstalled those and all is good. I thought I was going to have to do repair install, but I was able to just load all the new drivers and activate windows. Overall went smooth.
One issue I had, that was I neglected to check if it had IDE connections, and it does not. So I had to do away with my Win XP drive and one of my optical drives. No big deal though since I almost never ran the xp anymore and the optical drive was just a hold over from other pc builds.
I had Intel Core 2 duo Conroe 3.0g, 4G Ram, and ASUS P5n-e Sli MB. And now have I5 3570K, G.Skill 8G ram, ASUS P8Z77 MB. The new mother board has all kinds of overclocking features, which I haven't tried. But I'm not really into overclocking so I probably won't mess with that.
I'll definitely get an SSD in the future. I didn't really have any issues just plugging in my hdd with the existing Win7 install, it did seem to mess up my Nvidia driver and Norton AV and some other not that important programs. But just reinstalled those and all is good. I thought I was going to have to do repair install, but I was able to just load all the new drivers and activate windows. Overall went smooth.
One issue I had, that was I neglected to check if it had IDE connections, and it does not. So I had to do away with my Win XP drive and one of my optical drives. No big deal though since I almost never ran the xp anymore and the optical drive was just a hold over from other pc builds.
My Computer
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Custom Build
- OS
- Windows 7 Pro 64bit build 7601 SP1
- CPU
- Intel Core I5 3570K 3.4Ghz w/ Zalman CNPS9900NT RT
- Motherboard
- MSI Z77A-G45 Gaming
- Memory
- G.Skill F3-12800CL9D-8GbXL ; 4Gx2
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA Geforce GTX 770 Superclocked
- Sound Card
- Creative Sound Blaster Z
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dual ViewSonic VX2770Smh-LED Black 27"IPS-Panel
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- Kingston Hyper X 240GB SSD Win8 Pro 64bit 6GB/s Sata III
Intel 335 Series SSD 240GB Win8 Storage 6GB/s Sata III
Intel 320 Series SSD 600GB Storage 3GB/s Sata II
Western Digital Scorpio Black 1TB - Docked via Esata
- PSU
- Coolermaster GX 750W
- Case
- Corsair Vengence C70
- Cooling
- Coolermaster 120mm and Enermax 140mm
- Keyboard
- Corsair Vengence K70
- Mouse
- Logitech G500
- Internet Speed
- 22mbps+
- Browser
- Firefox, Chrome, IE
- Other Info
- Swan M50W 2.1 speakers
APC UPS
Thermaltake BlacX HDD Dock
Samsung BD Optical Drive
Netgear WNDR4500
