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Need some thoughts on this upgrade.

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CraweN

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Well, hello there my fellow nerds.

I planning on upgrading my computer, as the titels says. The reason being that I have BSOD's while playing some of the more requiring games.

This is what my machine looks like currently:

Asus A8V Deluxe, K8T800Pro
AMD Athlon64, 3500+k
Coolermaster Aquagate ALC-U01
Coolermaster Cavalier 3, Silver 350W PSU
Seagate 7200.7 NCQ 120GB SATA150
IBM 60 GB IDE HDD
Corsair Value Kit DDR3200, 4x512 MB
ASUS Radion 9800XT GFXcard

What I will replace is my GFXcard, motherboard, PSU.

Since the asus EAX1900xtx is being sold at a good price currently I will have to go with it. Allthough from what I heard the noise is, for some, quite nasty.
I therefor am planning on removing the fan and replacing it with a Zalman VF900 CU.

From what I read on the PSU. Antec, Seasonic and Enermax are all good brands of PSU, so those are the brands I will probably find a good PSU from. The PSU should be in the 500-550W range.

Concerning the motherboard, All it really needs is a Gigabit network card and using PCI-E.

Thats it. I'll probably be buying some AS5 to use on the GPU and CPU.

Any thoughts would be highly appriciated! 😉
 
Your system crashes and you think the solution is to upgrade it? The better solution would be to determine what is not working properly and fix that. Newer games don't just crash because you have older hardware; they either don't run, or they run with low framerates and not very good graphics. A BSOD indicates either buggy drivers or hardware failure, or possibly overheating.

Consider trying to find out why you're crashing first, then determine whether you want new hardware in order to provide better performance in games. Other than the somewhat older graphics card, you've got a very nice system that should be able to play anything currently available. A new motherboard with the same CPU isn't going perform very much differently. If your PSU is the Hiper 350W, it should be sufficient for any video card you can put in the AGP slot. An X800GTO would be a pretty good upgrade I think, but you can get an X1600Pro for even cheaper, or a 7600GS would probably be even better.
 
Okay. well I did suspect my ram was at fault which is why I ran Memtest86 3.2 and let it run for 5 hours. Nothing happened so I marked that off my list. When the BSOD's happens the music usually continues for another 5-10 seconds before also going away.
What I am hoping is that since I want a new GPU and it needs to be PCI-E. I can removed the components that I suspect could be causing the crashed, since they have to be replaced anyway for the gfx card to run properly.

Mobo needs to be replaced cause the old one is AGP
PSU because I won't be enough for the 1900XTX.

Something I haven't said before is that I have had problems before which are the following:

The reboots can happen anywhere between 10 minutes play and a couple of hours.

Have had a couple of times where when I booted up winXP the screen would look teared similar to this pic: http://pix.nofrag.com/23/5e/af74e43cd34ebcf8caea45490dfb.jpg (NOT MY COMP, plus mine was way worse. Covering the whole screen and looking a lot more distorted)

Was also having problems with a lot of artifacts, white pixels where poping up everywhere while playing 3D games. This I know is the gfxcard and usually is heating that causes those. I have a fan now blowing directly onto the card and the pixels problems are gone but the crashes still remain.

Also, A roughly 1½ year ago I did a complete rebuild where I kept only the gfxcard and a HDD. Before that I did have the pixels problems allthough my fuzzy memory can't recall if I had the crashes too.

hope that helps


 
"Your BSOD's are coming from trying to use four sticks of RAM, period. Take out two of the sticks, and magically, your BSOD's will go away."

No offense, but this is gibberish. I have seen statements like this before, and I wonder where do people get such ideas?


To the OP. My rig is much like yours, though with a P4C 2,4 and a 9800 pro. I can run avery game fine, and I have not experienced a BSOD yet.
IMO, and judging from your screenshot, I would be about 90% certain that your 9800XT is at fault. It might overheat, be defective (most likely), or not get enough power (unlikely).
 
Anyone want to recommend me some good mobo's with onboard Gigabit ethernet card and optionally a decent soundcard ( I have a 24bit live card from soundblaster to use if there isn't anyone on the mobo, so it isn't required).
 
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