MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: My new rig is on order. 5 years was a good run, I think.

> Happens to me every time . I couldn't pass up the i7 920 when I saw it for $199.
> Matter of weeks before the socket itself went out of style so I've been locked in.
> Same deal way back when I upgraded to an Athlon 4.
>
> Anyway, this build bumps me up to SATA III, USB 3, M.2, PCIe 3, SSE5, and a full GHz
> in clock speed. I think that's enough reason to upgrade.
>
> That, and something's fishy with my current motherboard. It keeps dropping one of my
> HDDs but I can't seem to spot a bad CAP or anything... changed around a few times and
> the HDD that drops has changed now.

You think that's bad, I just bought a new SSD, a used CPU+motherboard, and a new video card.

All of them got cheaper through sales via different stores a day after I bought them.

As for your HDD issues, it might be a bad SATA port. My old PC had a bad port that kept causing Windows to crash.