Overclocking would make it bottleneck less lol
ur using a decade old chip, any GPU nowadays will bottleneck it and there's nothing unsafe about it, you just wont be utilizing it at 100%

Okay thanks for that clarification. I just bought both and they should be in on Friday. Fingers crossed!

Get you a beefy video card for sure, later on if you rebuild u wont need to reinvest

Thanks for that heads up, but I think I'll be okay with just the card and ram upgrade for now.
I might replace the h100 since I've had it for quite some time and I imagine the liquid inside isn't as efficient as a new one would be.

So, I have another question that might be relevant.

About a week ago, I decided to flash the bios because there was an updated one available.
After doing it, I kept getting weird errors like 32 and 00.
I pulled the onboard battery and used the jumper pins to clear the cmos, which sorta fixed it.
I had to wipe the drives and reinstall windows fresh, but everything seems to be fine now.
I guess my question to this is, should I roll the bios back to what it originally was or just leave it as is before installing the new gpu/ram?

IIIIII

Furthermore, can't I use the 2x ram sticks I currently have and the 2x ram sticks I just bought together?

This post was edited by Borr on Aug 6 2020 03:30pm

regards sir

Huh?

You are supposed to set the BIOS to defaults, then flash it.








It's generally better to use a matched set of RAM. The test the sets, as sets, so they can guarantee, the will be stable.

Buy a 16GB set (2x8GB), and save the RAM you have now for emergency replacements, if you ever have to RMA the 16GB set

This post was edited by Ghot on Aug 7 2020 08:20pm

Yikers, well everything seems to be okay for now.

I'm considering OCing the cpu to 4.5 and see where it goes. I forget which programs I used before and honestly how to OC it, but I think I can google it.