Recent content by Shaynk

What's making you want to upgrade. Honestly the i3 is faster then the CPU you'd be looking into unless you're running very well threaded software. At that point it'd be easier and more beneficial to upgrade to a stronger Intel processor anyways.

Go android, blackberry has fallen off significantly and as was mentioned is as good as dead now. There's a lot to love about android. From a wide variety of devices that run the os covering all price and performance spectrums. As well as a very active communtiy offering a vast ability to...

5k? Better include a custom loop in that if you're serious.

There's fanboyism, and there's nonsense. Like any past achievements made by AMD have a effect on the current competition between the two. A competition that AMD is MILES behind in. The next major achievement by AMD will be accepting they're inability to compete with Intel, and hopefully...

Your CPU is definitely bottlenecking, mmos are heavily reliant on CPU power, and its emphasized the most in raids.

Not really a fan of powercolor, the xfx 6870 is a better deal.

A few months, for 10-15% performance, pci express 3.0 support, lower tdp, and high overclockibg headroom? I would but I wouldn't blame you for not. I5, Asus sabertooth, and maybe a ssd if you dont have one.

What all do you use your PC for? Gaming I assume with your crossfire aspirations, but anything else? Either way personally I'd say wait for ivy bridge to come out in April

As long as you're happy. The p7-1126 isn't a new model staples has carried it for months. Sell plenty of them to people looking for a basic desktop for home usage. Like I said if you're happy then congrats

Since youll be upgrading the gpu anyways you likely would have been better with the dell. Take away the fact that the onboard graphics isn't terrible, the processor by itself is pretty bad. So you're looking at 600 plus after you put a proper gpu in it, oh yeah I could beat that price. Well...

Go with either 2x2gb or 2x4gb 1600mhz ddr3 ram. I like corsair or g skill personally.

Yeah there's not much you can do to bump that up to play those games. Save some money and buy/build a new system

Do you happen to live by a microcenter? They have great deals on cpus and motherboards.

He mentioned MMos which are often heavily reliant on processing power. Its not a terrible processor, but its very underwhelming, and outperformed by older chips from AMD.

Both your Ram and Cpu, are completely compatible with your motherboard. The processor you've chosen is kinda mehh, performance wise, the price and added gift card from newegg is hard to beat though.