My Budget Rig

[Tensor]

I already tried posting this yesterday. But I failed a couple of times because of the approval. Haha.

So let's try this again:

CPU: AMD FX-6350 (Planning to upgrade together with motherboard when my budget allows it).
MB: Crosshair V Formula
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB LP
Cooling: h100i with sp120 performance
Case: Corsair Carbide 500R White
HDD1: WDC 500gb Black
HDD2: A seagate 1TB Notebook HDD (Coming out of an broken notebook)
SSD: OCZ Agility 3 120gb (Sad but true)
PSU: EVGA Supernova 750g
GPU1: EVGA gtx660
GPU2: Twin Frozr MSI gtx660

I bought a different graphics card because I wanted a second gpu, also I couldn't resist buying the MSI card due to the price being super cheap versus the same version of the EVGA card in that day.
Now I just wish to upgrade my CPU,MB and RAM asap. Since when I'm playing games on my notebook with an intel chip, I notice severe differences in performance.. Even though the graphics aren't as good .

However here are some pics

My Cable Management

Greetings People,

Have a nice day

 

[barnsley]

Now I just wish to upgrade my CPU,MB and RAM asap. Since when I'm playing games on my notebook with an intel chip, I notice severe differences in performance.. Even though the graphics aren't as good .

Explain?

 

[chewythefirst]

Now I just wish to upgrade my CPU,MB and RAM asap. Since when I'm playing games on my notebook with an intel chip, I notice severe differences in performance.. Even though the graphics aren't as good .

Explain?

i second that question..... Explain please?

 

[VELOSTER]

Maybe he want to overclock .

 

[NeverBackDown]

You can't reallly upgrade the mobo considering its the top AMD one you can get. Ram can't be upgraded much.. its ram lol

CPU is really the only thing i would upgrade in that rig.

 

[BluMondae]

You've got one of the best AM3+ motherboard out there and a very good CPU cooler, did you overclock it? Because that could change everything!

Otherwise if you really want to upgrade I would suggest getting a FX-8350 oc to 5 GHz, given your very good motherboard you won't need to change anything. I'm almost completely sure that the FX-8350 won't be a bottleneck, especially for two GTX 660, and for the increasing number of heavily multi-threaded games (such as battlefield 4, crysis 3, and many other will come out).

I have myself a FX-8350 with a crossfire of 7970. I mostly play BF4 and can assure you that everything is running very smooth (just upgraded from an i7 920 at 4.2 Ghz a week ago, no big difference in gaming but the all system is more pleasant to use ).

 

[barnsley]

Maybe he want to overclock .

You can overclock the 6350. I've done a very similar system to this (SLI 660s, 6350) and the 6350 does the job, albeit I OC'd it to 4.5ghz.

 

[Tensor]

Ahw, what an aweful post I made.

I ment to say, upgrade the motherboard from the AMD platform to the Intel platform.. After 6 years of AMD I'm starting to have had it, my chip runs at 4,6 ghz currently.. Used to run 4,8 but for some reason it doesn't want to ran at those speeds anymore.

But I just meant going from the 990fx, to say z87 and a 4770k. (Not upgrade enough.. With better ram to be honest.)

I just want more performance out of my machine because I do a little more than just gaming .

All in all I have to say: Its not a bad build, but it just needs some work

And it's not the GPU intense games that are a pain in the butt, I'm barely even playing these.

It's like in anything else, desktopping, 3D design, 2D design, Unity 3D etc etc. In which my notebook with a i7-3450m outstands in performance vs my fx6350.

If it's playing a cpu intense game like wow or SC2. You notice severe difference in the two, especially when dipping below the 60 fps, you really notice which chip benefits the other. That's why I want to change so badly.. It's the alround performance of intel which is better. Which I need for either work and those FEW games I play. As said, not GPU intense games, No problems with that.

(Having sick performance in either BF3, Ghosts etc all the shooters are performing great. It's really just the titles I play in which this chipset struggles.)

Excuse me for this terrible post I made, I'm a mess haha.

 

[barnsley]

It's like in anything else, desktopping, 3D design, 2D design, Unity 3D etc etc. In which my notebook with a i7-3450m outstands in performance vs my fx6350.

If it's playing a cpu intense game like wow or SC2. You notice severe difference in the two, especially when dipping below the 60 fps, you really notice which chip benefits the other. That's why I want to change so badly.. It's the alround performance of intel which is better. Which I need for either work and those FEW games I play. As said, not GPU intense games, No problems with that.

Excuse me for this terrible post I made, I'm a mess haha.

Oh right I know what you mean about AMD cpus and non gaming / cpu intensive games(I'm upgrading soon due to crap render times). I'm surprised your cpu struggles with wow though, my friend had no issues :s.

 

[Tensor]

It's not really struggling.

But the difference between my laptop and pc is really noticable.
the 40 fps on my laptop on medium to high feels more fluent than my pc on 40-60 fps (This is in large battlegrounds or 25man raids). The laptop feels more solid.

Render times are crap yes, especially video encoding. Cinema 4D rendering Is not all too shabby though, but that's about it..

Multitasking is better on my desktop though. But that might have numerous reasons why that is.

But I have to say, I never been really disappointed about this rig, it's just I feel the differences in my notebook. Especially on the "working/office" segment. That I really have to upgrade. Runs all games fine, cpu intense too but those need tweaking.. Next gen games are not a problem at all.

I want to point out the RAM upgrade.

If you're running scratchdisks from RAMdisks.. then you'll notice BIG difference betweend 1600mhz and 2400mhz.. This was tested on my friends uber rig.