The PC I built 6 years ago wouldn't turn on over the weekend. A quick blink, then nothing. PSU is good, so I'm assuming it's the ABIT motherboard. To save a few dollars, I'm thinking about going AMD after 20 yrs of Intel CPU's. In some ways it's good timing since I was planning to upgrade to Win 7 from XP anyway. I'm looking at the following replacement parts:
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX MB (replacing ABIT IP35 Pro)
AMD FX8350 CPU (replacing an Intel E6750 Dual-Core)
Corsair Vengeance MEM 8GB (replacing Corsair 4MB)
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO CPU fan (instead of the AMD stock fan)
For the time being I'm keeping my EVGA GTX 550 Ti video card. I know it will be a bottleneck, but most of my games and programs are older ones anyway.
Anyone see any red flags with my proposed set up? I've got a CM Stacker 830 case, so there should be plenty of room. I'm trying to build more for reliability and future upgrading than speed and overclocking. I'm just a bit apprehensive about going AMD for the first time.
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX MB (replacing ABIT IP35 Pro)
AMD FX8350 CPU (replacing an Intel E6750 Dual-Core)
Corsair Vengeance MEM 8GB (replacing Corsair 4MB)
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO CPU fan (instead of the AMD stock fan)
For the time being I'm keeping my EVGA GTX 550 Ti video card. I know it will be a bottleneck, but most of my games and programs are older ones anyway.
Anyone see any red flags with my proposed set up? I've got a CM Stacker 830 case, so there should be plenty of room. I'm trying to build more for reliability and future upgrading than speed and overclocking. I'm just a bit apprehensive about going AMD for the first time.