Hi,
I’m looking for suggestions to replace my current PC, it's 4.5 yrs old from Mesh, It has developed an Event 41 Kernel Power issue.
It’s had this issue for 12 months, with random fails perhaps twice a week , painful but not too bad.
Currently it won’t stay up for more than 30 mins, I've always suspected it’s the power supply issue, but I recently found wafer in the case from the water cooler, water & electronics are never a good combination
I expect the MB is probably damaged somewhere, all fixable but not worth the effort given the machines age or other hidden damage.
Current Spec
My budget is £1800 depending on Spec, it can be stretched. Used mostly for gaming, FPS ( Crisis, Doom, Far Cry, Falllout, etc) , flight sim, and general surfing & streaming.
My previous PC have tended to be Intel/Nvidia based, I had a quick look at the a few CPU/GPU bench mark sites and compared them to my current spec.
I'm probably looking at a system built around an i7, RTX-2070 combination but, willing to trade CPU for GPU etc.
I’ve been looking at these type of components:
The other components e.g Blu Ray, etc would depend on case and/or budget.
Power supply, probably 550-750W.
My current displays are 24” 1080, I know the 2070 cards are 1440 but it will allow me to upgrade displays at a later date.
I currently have two M.2 Samsung 850 Evo SSD, 250 GB (OS) + 500 GB( Games), I’d like to reuse the 500 GB SSD on the new system. I’d probably drop the HDD and use one of my current 2TB Barracuda as main storage, I'd use the new 970 EVO as the OS board. I'm assuming 850/970 EVO would share he same board happily?
Thanks
Jim
I’m looking for suggestions to replace my current PC, it's 4.5 yrs old from Mesh, It has developed an Event 41 Kernel Power issue.
It’s had this issue for 12 months, with random fails perhaps twice a week , painful but not too bad.
Currently it won’t stay up for more than 30 mins, I've always suspected it’s the power supply issue, but I recently found wafer in the case from the water cooler, water & electronics are never a good combination
I expect the MB is probably damaged somewhere, all fixable but not worth the effort given the machines age or other hidden damage.Current Spec
| CPU | i7-6700 Quad Core 3.4GHz |
| Mother Board | GIGABYTE GA-Z170X-Gaming 3 |
| RAM | 16GB 2400MHz DDR4 Memory (2x8GB) |
| Graphics | 4GB NVIDIA GTX 970 Graphics Card |
| HDD | 2TB 3.5" Seagate Barracuda SATA x3 |
| M2 | 500/250GB M.2 SATA SSD - Samsung 850 EVO |
| Power Supply | 750W FSP Quiet Power Supply - Silver 80 PLUS |
| Cooler | Raijintek Triton 240mm High Performance AIO |
| Sound | Creative SB Z PCIe Gaming Sound 5.1Ch |
| OS | Win 10 Professional - 64 Bit |
My budget is £1800 depending on Spec, it can be stretched. Used mostly for gaming, FPS ( Crisis, Doom, Far Cry, Falllout, etc) , flight sim, and general surfing & streaming.
My previous PC have tended to be Intel/Nvidia based, I had a quick look at the a few CPU/GPU bench mark sites and compared them to my current spec.
I'm probably looking at a system built around an i7, RTX-2070 combination but, willing to trade CPU for GPU etc.
| CPU | i7-6700 | i7-9700K | i5-9600K | i9-9600K | Ryzen 5 3600 | Ryzen 7 3700X |
| Speed | +28% | +24% | +29% | +11% | +14% | |
| Av Score | +44% | +29% | +44 | +23% | +31% | |
| GPU | GTX-970 | RTX-2070 | RTX-2060 | GTX 1660S | RX-590 | |
| Speed | +104 | +63 | +34% | +21% | ||
| Av Score | +108 | +71 | +43% | +14% |
I’ve been looking at these type of components:
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i7 Eight Core Processor i7-9700K (3.6GHz) 12MB Cache | |
| Mother Board | Gigabyte Z390 UD: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready | |
| RAM | 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 16GB) | |
| Graphics | 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2070 SUPER - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce | |
| HDD | 2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM | |
| M2 | 500GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe | |
| Cooler | CoolerMaster MasterLiquid Lite 240 High Performance Liquid Cooler |
The other components e.g Blu Ray, etc would depend on case and/or budget.
Power supply, probably 550-750W.
My current displays are 24” 1080, I know the 2070 cards are 1440 but it will allow me to upgrade displays at a later date.
I currently have two M.2 Samsung 850 Evo SSD, 250 GB (OS) + 500 GB( Games), I’d like to reuse the 500 GB SSD on the new system. I’d probably drop the HDD and use one of my current 2TB Barracuda as main storage, I'd use the new 970 EVO as the OS board. I'm assuming 850/970 EVO would share he same board happily?
Thanks
Jim
