Simviation Forum - Lightning strike related forced upgrade

Aug 9^th, 2010 at 8:42am

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Hi,

Last Friday my computer suffered a lightning strike during an electric storm that ruined my Asus P6T Deluxe / I7-940@3,7 Ghz system. First it seemed that only the Ethernet ports gave up, then I realized that the PSU was gone too. I changed the PSU (Corsair HX750W) and installed a PCI-E network card to have a working ethernet port and then all hell broke loose and basically the system became totally unstable. So all in all I am sure the mobo got fried as well - I am lucky if the CPU is OK although I have no means to test it right now.

Basically my problem is that I have assembled this system last spring when these components were still quite expensive and now looking at the prices I am surprised to realize that not much development has happaned on the mobo/cpu side of the hardware front. More or less I need to look into rebuying the same system as the I7-980X and the like are still very expensive. Normally I upgrade every 3 years and I manage to buy something classed above my existing system as I went down the P4-2400 - Core2Duo-2400 - I7-940 upgrade route. As I am facing an unforeseen upgrade right now I am stumped that I cannot really step even a little bit ahead as seemingly top of the line motherboards have not changed at all and as far as CPUs are concerned the only news compared to last spring are the I5, I3 line CPUs which are inferior to my existing one.

Do you really think I am best off rebuying the same Asus P6T Deluxe V2 I have currently and an I7-940 or 930 in case my CPU is gone also or are thre some reasonable alternative upgrades where I actually manage to step ahead a little bit performancewise.

I have the Gigabyte GTX285 GPU and I do not intend to change that.

I am looking forward to receiving your valuable insight.

Alex

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Reply #1 - Aug 9^th, 2010 at 9:16pm

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I know it's too late for this one, but a good Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) might have protected you from this. And some, have lifetime warranties to cover such mishaps, with replacement of the UPS and repair or replacement of the equipment damaged up to $75,000. They are well worth the cost.

http://www.apc.com/products/index.cfm

In this instance, your homeowners policy might cover the replacement costs.

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Reply #2 - Aug 10^th, 2010 at 8:36am

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If you really want to upgrade you can go with an Asus P6X58D, i7 980X and some 2000MHz memory.

The i7 980X can get to 4.5GHz on air and should easily get to 4.4GHz on air.

I am seriously thinking about building a new PC and going this route, only I plan on upgrading to a GTX480 also along with an SSD for the OS and Vrap's for FSX.

Asus R3E_i7 980X @ 4.44GHz_TR Silver Arrow_Mushkin Redline 6GB 1,644MHz @ 6-7-6-18_Zotac AMP GTX 480_OS - Windows 7 Ult 64b_OS SSD - Crucial C300 128GB_FSX HD - WD VR 600GB*2 w/3ware 9750-4i 6Gb/s Controller_Corsair AX850_CM HAF-X_FSX Gold, UTX, GEX, FSG, ST, MSX, MSE, FTX, FEX, FSWC, MTX, STB, AS F16, PMDG MD11, CS MD80 Pro, FSD P38, VRS FA18E

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Reply #3 - Aug 11^th, 2010 at 1:15am

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idahosurge wrote on Aug 10^th, 2010 at 8:36am:

If you really want to upgrade you can go with an Asus P6X58D, i7 980X and some 2000MHz memory.

The i7 980X can get to 4.5GHz on air and should easily get to 4.4GHz on air.

I am seriously thinking about building a new PC and going this route, only I plan on upgrading to a GTX480 also along with an SSD for the OS and Vrap's for FSX.

Yes I realized that route however right now I do not believe that it is worth the giant surcharge compared to overclocking a new i7-930 to 4 or 4,2Ghz. Basically that is most probably I am gonna do now I just had to come to terms with the fact that from some angle it is considered to be an upgrade compared to the I7-940 as I could never reach more than 3,7 GHZ on my former 940.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Alex

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