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by riddik3231 Mar 22, 2017 11:58AM PDT

heres my speccy I ordered a asus strix 1070 and I was wondering if I should upgrade to a fx 8350 and asus 970 aura motherboard or if I should go for a new intel motherboard with ddr4 and maybe an i5 or i7. http://speccy.piriform.com/results/P4uTVhSYRdGvCkWDUBqY76x

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I'd just leave the board, CPU and RAM as-is.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Mar 22, 2017 12:17PM PDT

You can check https://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace/wiki/builds but that's an OK CPU and you have a lot of RAM so I'd stop right there.

I would eject the under 100GB SSDs and pop in a nice 240 or larger SSD to really fix the HDD/SSD area up.

-> I see remnants of ATI drivers so google up DDU and see if you can eject just the ATI video drivers.

The old Samsung could be slowing the machine down. Eject.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00348W3GY/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all finds it's a 10 buck thing.

The speccy is pretty clean otherwise.

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by riddik3231 Mar 22, 2017 1:40PM PDT

ok I used ddu to delete the old drivers. I'm gonna clone the Samsung to the bigger drive and disconnect the 80gb. so far

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