So currently i am at an end road with my laptop. I had been gaming on it happily (travel a lot) But now it won't hold up to new AAA titles coming. So time to piece together stuff at home.
Currently commandeered the other computer at home and upgraded it from i3 2100 to i7 3770. Rocking a GTX 1070 while I decide what to move this GPU to next.
But still need another. I do own 2 x X58 boards both with Xeons. One has a L5638 for my server. While the second was given to me by someone who assumed he couldn't sell it for much.
The second Xeon which has been installed but never completed the build is X5670. Can comfortably OC to 3.8-4.2(weather dependant) on Air with room to spare.
I do things other than gaming but this machine's main focus is gaming (so maintaining frames and keeping up with my gpu is most important), so I feel there are three current options to me:
1. Upgrade the ram in my X58 platform (nothing else needed) Which is a happy bridging solution to an upgrade later in 2018/2019
2. There was a good deal on X99 board, board plus CPU is about 600 AUD
3. Jump on the Ryzen train which will be weird given everything at home runs i7 and Xeon, also something about nvidia card next to AMD feels dirty haha
Both options 2 and 3 will also need new ram which will be similar cost to option 1. Yes there is also the 7xxx Intel option as well
Currently commandeered the other computer at home and upgraded it from i3 2100 to i7 3770. Rocking a GTX 1070 while I decide what to move this GPU to next.
But still need another. I do own 2 x X58 boards both with Xeons. One has a L5638 for my server. While the second was given to me by someone who assumed he couldn't sell it for much.
The second Xeon which has been installed but never completed the build is X5670. Can comfortably OC to 3.8-4.2(weather dependant) on Air with room to spare.
I do things other than gaming but this machine's main focus is gaming (so maintaining frames and keeping up with my gpu is most important), so I feel there are three current options to me:
1. Upgrade the ram in my X58 platform (nothing else needed) Which is a happy bridging solution to an upgrade later in 2018/2019
2. There was a good deal on X99 board, board plus CPU is about 600 AUD
3. Jump on the Ryzen train which will be weird given everything at home runs i7 and Xeon, also something about nvidia card next to AMD feels dirty haha
Both options 2 and 3 will also need new ram which will be similar cost to option 1. Yes there is also the 7xxx Intel option as well
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