PC RAM and GPU upgrade

[alexkensit]

Hi,

I am trying to get my computer which has been blue screening a lot up and running by doing a clean install of Windows 10. So far so good!

I sold the 750 Ti which I had originally bought for the machine for £75 on eBay new in box. I sold it because I didn't want to install it in a computer which wasn't going to work reliably.

I'm also thinking about RAM, because I currently only have a single stick, and I may want to grab 16GB. I'm thinking getting 2x4GB Corsair sticks or 2x8GB Corsair sticks.

For graphics cards, I am looking at the GTX 950 2GB ASUS STRIX edition, the EVGA GTX 960, and the XFX R9 380.

Here are my current specs

Core i5 4460 @ 3.2GHZ
Gigabyte Z97 D3H
1x8GB HyperX FURY 1600mhz DDR3
120GB v300NOW SSD Kingston
1TB WD Caviar Blue
ASUS GT 610 2GB DDR3
EVGA W1 500W 80+
Corsair Spec 01
Windows 10 Home 64 bit

Thank you very much.
Alex Kensit

 

[Vetsku]

Hello Alex.

Corsair makes great RAM and you will be fine with 8GB's if you just want to play video games. And i would recommend the XFX R9 380. It's a great card. But your PSU is not that great so i would probably upgrade that aswell if i wanted to get the 380.

 

[alexkensit]

Hello Alex.

Corsair makes great RAM and you will be fine with 8GB's if you just want to play video games. And i would recommend the XFX R9 380. It's a great card. But your PSU is not that great so i would probably upgrade that aswell if i wanted to get the 380.

Yeah I know the PSU is not the best, but far from the worse, despite the OEM being the dreaded HEC. Think I'll be able to run a 950 or 960 with it?

Alex Kensit

 

[Vetsku]

Hello Alex.

Corsair makes great RAM and you will be fine with 8GB's if you just want to play video games. And i would recommend the XFX R9 380. It's a great card. But your PSU is not that great so i would probably upgrade that aswell if i wanted to get the 380.

Yeah I know the PSU is not the best, but far from the worse, despite the OEM being the dreaded HEC. Think I'll be able to run a 950 or 960 with it?

Alex Kensit

Yes you can run a gtx 960 on it better than the 380. But still the PSU upgrade would be great.

 

[alexkensit]

Yeah, I was going to upgrade it to a G2 or a RM when I first got it (I thought it was faulty), but the fault of undoing 4 hours work of cable managment doesn't exactly appeal to me....and also it seems my PC has broken. Again.

 

[Vetsku]

Yeah, I was going to upgrade it to a G2 or a RM when I first got it (I thought it was faulty), but the fault of undoing 4 hours work of cable managment doesn't exactly appeal to me....and also it seems my PC has broken. Again.

What happened?

 

[alexkensit]

I kept having blue screens of death for random things every time, CACHE_MANAGER, IRQL_NOT_LESS EQUAL. I kept having them, so I reinstalled Windows like people suggested. And now when I woke my PC up today, I got MEMORY_MANAGMENT. So its definitely hardware now. I'm just thinking of giving up on this thing and buying a craptop for all the hassle its giving me

 

[Vetsku]

Your memory might be broken. You can try doing the memory diagnosis.

 

[alexkensit]

Yep, I tried that when I first had the problem.... Ran MemTest for 4 hours and a bit and it passed, as well as Windows 7 Memory Diagnostic. Think it might be the motherboard, as it did get scratched in the build.