Upgrade tips for Phenom II x4, HD6990 etc system

[Bob839283]

Hi!
I am currently on this system:
Asrock 970 Extreme3
AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ ~3.5GHz (Stock)
1 Radeon 6990 (ARCTIC Accelero Twin Turbo)
Seagate 2tb 7200rpm SATA
Corsair Vengeance Dual C DDR3 16GB Kit, 1600MHz, 4x4GB, LP
Antec TruePower Quattro 850W

All this in a decently cooled Cooler Master haf 912

I'm really looking forward to playing Overwatch but I have had bluescreens and lag spikes lately.
I would love to know what you would suggest that I should replace to get more juice out of it?

All suggestions are welcome!
Thank you

 

[lindsay24]

You're pretty well already at the top tier of the AM3 platform. I was running an Phenom X4 955 myself up until a few months ago, and it served me well. If it's feeling slow, have you considered overclocking? If you're planning on upgrading anyways, you don't really need to worry about the risks of OCing. Otherwise, I'd advise upgrading to a newer platform all together. AM3 is being phased out, sadly.

In terms of a GPU, the 6990 is still holding up last I checked. However, you could hold out for the new GTX 1070 or 1060.

Also, if you're having bluescreens, try running memtest86+ to make sure your RAM is okay. If it is, you may want to consider a fresh Windows install.

 

[clutchc]

Pretty much what lindsay24 said... My 965 BE is at 4.0 GHz and still keeps up with my GTX 960 FTW. But not OC'ed, your 965 may be bottlenecking the dual GPU card in modern games.
On the other hand, your problem may be more due to software errors, conflicts, junk files, malware, etc. than the hardware. Have you run CCleaner lately? Do the Clean and Registry portions both. https://www.piriform.com/

Run Malwarebytes to clean up resource-wasting malware and other crap-ware. https://www.malwarebytes.org/

If things don't improve (I think they might), you can always move to the FX-83xx CPU for that board if it is the R2.0 board.