Upgrading PC - Need help (I live in the UK)

[TheDistortionGamer]

Damn, I usually like to get in on these threads, looks like I'm a little late, but i'm gonna drop some comments anyway.



ASRock is a shady brand some times, and I'm board with you there, but that doesn't mean he can't still get a decent overclock out of his CPU. I've seen 3.8 to 4.6ghz overclocks with the i7 series on that very mobo hold stable. Also discrediting overclocking because you don't see the difference is a bit silly. A small overclock of a quad core CPU isn't going to be seen in gaming at all, the CPU plays into performance much less in that market. Dive into something like music production loading up a hefty number of patches, and you'll start to notice that speed boost a lot more. It all depends on purposing. Just the same, making claims like "If you don't mind breaking some of your parts" is also a great exaggeration. As long as you know what you're doing, you really aren't risking your parts with overclocking until you start pushing the voltage.



Green drives... shudder. If you value hard drive speed, avoid them. then can be delayed in getting going at times, and make you feel bottle necked.

Well I agree with you on someparts, but the stuff breaking, even if you know what you are doing, if you overclock you will probably get bluescreens, if you get bluescreens the way to fix that is to increase voltage in the motherboard, increasing the voltage will diminish it's lifespan significantly and overclocking the CPU will also make it last less time. As for the performance, I may be wrong, but I just assumed this would be a gaming computer. Lastly the mobo, I didn't say he couldn't overclock it, I said he shouldn't and I stand by that, it's simply not ideal for overclocking and if the voltage is increased it'll last even less than of the more expensive mobos like the MSI MPower which I think costs roughly around 180 euros.