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Question

Hardware recommendation for my pc

Jul 23, 2016 2:26PM PDT

Please help find out a suitable hardware for my PC.

1. Which graphics card I should have. I don’t want so hi-fi ultra performance graphics. Will the onboard graphics be ok?
2. HDD of at least 2TB.
3. A good fan.

Budget around 10k.

Here is my PC configuration:

1. Deepcool Tesseract BF,
2. iBall Sprinter SMPS 600W,
3. MB: Gigabyte Z87-D3HP,
4. Processor: i7 4770k 3.5GHz,
5. Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8 x 2GB DDR3 1600 MHz (CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10),
6. Primary HDD: Kingston SUV100S37A/120G,
7. 2nd HDD: WD black 1tb (WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0), [planning to get 2 TB now.]
8. Sound card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium 7.1-Channel PCI Express
9. Monitor: Dell S2415H connected with HDMI.

I do the following:

1. Photoshop CC,
2. Adobe premier CC, [sometime]
3. Adobe Illustrator CC,
4. Adobe AE CC, [sometime]
5. Magix sound editing, [sometime]
6. PhpStorm for php coding, with wamp server
7. I do not play game.
I usually do not have any problem with this PC till now, it didn’t failed me anytime or felt not so slow anyway but always want to make it better and faster. I didn’t even try to over clock it. I still have the stock CPU cooler and another exhaust fan.

I appreciate your time to answer my queries.

With thanks
Dev

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Answer
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Jul 23, 2016 11:39PM PDT

It's not clear if your config is showing what you have now or the parts you have picked for a new build.

If it's a new build change the mix a little.
Psu....shop for a single rail unit.
The psu your showing is a dual rail.

Ram....shop for a 2X8GB kit @ 1600.
What your showing seems to be 2 unmatched sticks.
Fit the sticks in the proper slots for dual channel.

Ssd....if the budget allows bump that to 250GB.

Gpu.....shop for a gtx 950/960.

If that config shows the machine you have now.
Verify the ram is in the proper slots for dual channel.
Check how full your disk are....if they are getting full that will slow it down.
Run an av scan.
Run a pass of malwarebytes / adwcleaner / disk cleanup / ccleaner.
Shop for a gtx 950/960.

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Thank for your reply
Jul 24, 2016 2:22AM PDT

Thanks for an informative reply Bob__B. Yes, the config I quoted is a unit which i had assembled a year back. Now i want to add some turbo Wink

Ram 8gb X 2 is installed [sorry i wrote it wrong Wink]. arranged as [1-o-1-o].

SSD is 75% free of 111gb [windows 10 64bit installed],
1tb hdd is divided into 2 partition; 1. 195gb total [85% free] & 2. 736gb total [20% free].

GTX 950/960 is too costly for me. Can you suggest little cheaper alternatives?

Any suggestion about over clocking?

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Costly
Jul 24, 2016 3:15AM PDT

Then you back it down a notch.
Shop for a gtx 750 ti.

If still too costly back it down another notch.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127830

Over clocking?
Don't....it's a pit.

Don't know what sort of problems your having but did you test if your ram is setup in dual channel?
Did you run the scans/products I mentioned?

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I'd push for the 950.
Jul 24, 2016 9:17AM PDT