update MoBo help plus

[smitty2855]

Hello, I am thinking of updating my motherboard and cpu the mother board I am thinking of is gigabyt GA-990FXA-ud5 amd9 series ATX, socket AM3+ AMD 990FX chipset 2000MHZ ddr3 (O.C.). CPU I want is AMD FX 9590 and a new version of windows 7. what I have now is a Gigabyte GA-770t-usb3 AM3 with a 700 watt power supply. I want to add a new Hard drive atleast 1Tb not sure whats a good hardrive. I have also a NZXT mid tower case. Question is how hard is it to install a new mobo and install windows 7 and the hardrive? cpu shouldn't be that hard and a 700 watt power supply should be enough for the new cpu. probably some new memory too. so any help as to how to do it or any suggestions would be appreciated and thanks in advance

 

[digitaldoc]

You can certainly build a new system, and the assembly is not particularly hard.

For a hard drive, I would recommend a Western Digital Black or Blue in the 1 TB size. You should also consider an SSD for the OS.

I have owned many AMD products, but I would not go with the FX9590 if I was building now. The Core i5 4690 is a good general purpose processor, but you will need a different MB to go with it.

Below is a link to a guide that goes through how to do the build, as well as the Windows installation.

http://lifehacker.com/5828747/how-to-build-a-computer-from-scratch-the-complete-guide

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Hello, I am thinking of updating my motherboard and cpu the mother board I am thinking of is gigabyt GA-990FXA-ud5 amd9 series ATX, socket AM3+ AMD 990FX chipset 2000MHZ ddr3 (O.C.). CPU I want is AMD FX 9590 and a new version of windows 7. what I have now is a Gigabyte GA-770t-usb3 AM3 with a 700 watt power supply. I want to add a new Hard drive atleast 1Tb not sure whats a good hardrive. I have also a NZXT mid tower case. Question is how hard is it to install a new mobo and install windows 7 and the hardrive? cpu shouldn't be that hard and a 700 watt power supply should be enough for the new cpu. probably some new memory too. so any help as to how to do it or any suggestions would be appreciated and thanks in advance

Your choices for the 9000 series:

Asrock 970 Performance
ASRock 990FX Extreme9
ASRock 990FX Extreme6
Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z
Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0
Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 R4.0
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7
MSI 990FXA-GD80V2

AMD.COM

Warning: This power draw of this CPU is almost twice that of the average CPU. Due to this, AMD recommends using at minimum a 1000W power supply. For cooling, AMD recommends using either either closed loop liquid cooling or full system liquid cooling.

 

[digitaldoc]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8316/amds-5-ghz-turbo-cpu-in-retail-the-fx9590-and-asrock-990fx-extreme9-review/6

Not that great of a CPU, and hard to justify that power draw. Best reason to get the FX9590 is for bragging rights that you have a 5 GHz CPU.