Absolutely sick of my AMD 640 ii x4 need somthing new

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Im absolutely sick of it, it has just been a terrible experience for me overall and the past 2 years with it I regret.

I want to move to intel but I really dont have a high budget but id like opinions on processors and motherboards that would work well and last for a decent amount of time

im not looking to spend crazy amounts of money


current specs =

Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
AMD Athlon II X4 640
Propus 45nm Technology
RAM
2x2gb 1600mhz ripjaws ram
(4gig of ram died on me today)
Motherboard
ASRock 870 Extreme3
Graphics
1024MB GeForce GTX 560 Ti (ASUStek Computer Inc)
Hard Drives
488GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-001CA0 ATA Device (SATA)
Optical Drives
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-219L ATA Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio
 
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Well, the ram should be running around 800 mhz not 439mhz.

timings should be 9-9-9-24 I believe unless you got lower latency memory.
 
the box says 1600 what is wrong:S

i used to have some old 1333hmz ram in my pc that died would that affect it?
 
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just did that :P thanks for the help

Would upgrading to a newer motherboard be benificial? or would getting a 965 be enough?
 
Does speccy report the correct numbers now?

I would say just get a new processor. What issues were you having?
 
constant freezing and very slow exporting photoshop (big canvas sizes) is slow and laggy and general performance of my pc is very slow

edit: yes speccy is all good now
 
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have you ever defragged your hdd? do you do general maintenance such as virus and malware scans? if not those could be the issue. As for the photoshop part, if you mean what i think then those are large files and will be on the slower side no matter.
 
jonnyp11 said:
have you ever defragged your hdd? do you do general maintenance such as virus and malware scans? if not those could be the issue. As for the photoshop part, if you mean what i think then those are large files and will be on the slower side no matter.
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I defrag very often scan for malware everyday

its not just moving files its actually having a large sized canvas which is no problem doing on other computers
 
Try out CCleaner and remove any programs you don't need. Also try blowing some compressed air in your computer to clear out the dust, especially in the Heatsink for the CPU.
 
Ive done all that i have 396 gigs free from my 500gb hdd i constantly check for viruses use ccCleaner, use good firewalla for unwanted shit. idk what is up with it, I might just start to overclock it more
 
johnb35 said:
Very bad idea. It's unnecessary wear and tear on the drive. Defrag about twice a year or so. If you constantly install and uninstall programs then once every couple months.
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I do mine once a week, but I do move a lot of data.
 
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