The upgrade

After intense negotiations  with the household, I finally managed to do an upgrade to my modest gaming rig.

I decide to do a major upgrade to 3 key components which imo were lagging behind the gfx card that I recently had added to the system. These being the motherboard, the cpu and the hard drives.

So after a lot of online reading and research I went for the following parts taking in too consideration the price and their value, although I might have been a little bonkers on the cpu choice   :  

Motherboard: P8Z77-V LX



cpu: Intel i7-3770K



hard drive: Samsung 840 EVO 250G



After putting all parts together I installed windows 8.1 and a couple of games, I barely had the time to do any proper testing but I noticed NS2 loading like a dream  and the insane speed of the cpu, the speed, the speeeeeeed!!!

haha Looks Awesome Celtic  

Nice choices Celtic (looks across at Samsung 840 ;-) I'm sure the negotiations were tough.  

But does it have as many cores as Hazik?

mlkvch wrote:

But does it have as many cores as Hazik?

No not really, only four but they are hyperthreaded though  

Some more pics!

Looking good Celtic  

Can imagine that it's really fast