09-27-2015, 01:05 PM
(09-27-2015, 12:53 PM)Surge Wrote:(09-27-2015, 12:50 PM)Segolia Wrote: I'm just sitting here like "I wanna get more RAM - welp, looks like I have to buy a whole new computer"Is your rig capped at 8g RAM or something? I think I read that my new board is capped at 32. Anyways even if you are out of slots I am almost positive you can just get bigger cards. Unless of course you already have 6-8g cards or something in which case like fucking hell you need more RAM.
I feel like I just wanna bank 2 grand and overhaul my rig - skylake CPU, PCI-e SSD, water cooling block, 16GB DDR4 RAM and a fuckhuge monitor.
This is a shitty mobo which doesn't have the (physical) space for it.
New mobo = new CPU (because current one uses an outdated socket type). Old RAM will probably work in a new mobo but it's basically an excuse to upgrade to DDR4 (I'd just need to buy 2x8GB sticks if I wanna upgrade to 16GB, it's not much more expensive to make it DDR4 sticks).
All in all I'm in for about a grand for that, a little over if I wanna get a watercooler for the CPU (~$350-400 CPU, ~$300-350 mobo, ~$200 RAM, ~$120(?) water cooling for CPU). New monitor I've been looking at will run me about $750, looking at a mechanical keyboard which will be ~$150 too.
Basically only bit I'd keep is my GPU (which is basically what's keeping this rig together, an otherwise barely above average comp backed by a fucking powerhouse GPU)