built this rig over the course of last year (student funds didn't allow me to just buy it all so i gathered parts over the year... Big mistake). I'll just say however when it comes to Computer hardware i'm not the best person in the game.
CPU-AMD FX 6300 Black edition CPU cooler- Hyper 212 EVO
Mobo- MSI 970A-G46 ATX AM3+ Mobo RAM-Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3-1866 Memory
GPU - MSI Radeon 7970 Twin Frozr edition
SSD-Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB HDD- 500gb (not a Games hoarder. I don't need a lot of HDD space)
PSU-Corsair Builder 600W 80 PLUS Certified Case- Zalman Z11
It's done me well for the past year, However It needs a change up. Firstly I was looking to swap the guts into a NZXT S340 mainly because I think the wire management in the Z11 is poor and so is the airflow... also it looks tacky. It's also a massive dust trap.
My main problem however (so i've been told) is the Mobo, I was going to OC the CPU until i was told that my Mobo would not be able to hold any decent OC. So I was looking at swapping the Mobo out with a Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 and stick a Corsair H55 on there.
What I was hoping to find out from you guys is would any of this highly benefit me. Obviously what could i look at pushing the FX-6300 to at stable conditions so on so forth. I think the biggest difference however will be the cooling for me. When running Skyrim with quite a few texture mods (probably the first real test the GPU has had) because of the terrible cooling I've got It just got so hot (high 80's to low 90's) that I didn't even risk playing the game. although the FPS remained fine whilst playing, I'd like to be able to get a bit more out of the card but i just wouldn't feel safe overclocking the card in my current predicament.
Any and ALL feedback would be great thanks