Hello to everyone i the PCSX2 community, i have a bit of a loooong story to tell.
So after my living room PC that my parents used bit the bucket so bad that if i disabled the Onboard LAN it would stop detecting my HDD's (it was an Abit P35 motherboard with a E6750 C2D at 2.66 Ghz on it and 2 GB of china RAM), i finally decided that it is time to get a new Motherboard+CPU+RAM and give my older one to them (that being an Asus P5E with Rampage Formula bios with an E8400 C2D at 4.23 Ghz on it and 4 GB of Corsair Dominator RAM).
After searching for people to buy my components from i found someone selling a complete kit (Mobo+CPU+RAM) for 420 $ (this is btw extremely cheap for my area for a combo like this).
It was an ASUS Maximus Ranger VII motherboard + an Intel i5 4690K + 8 GB of Kingston Predator RAM.
I contacted the seller and then he told me that it was this cheap because the motherboard has 'problems', after thinking a bit about it i decided to buy it anyway thinking that i can try to fix it.
In 2 days it arrived via fast mail and i got it out of the package and noticed that the motherboard looked basically brand new XD, i quickly set everything up for tests and i was getting very weird random system hangs and bluescreens so i decided to go into the motherboard bios to check some settings for stability and then i found out that even the UEFI bios freezes from time to time and i was like WTF?!?.
Then an idea hit me and i checked the BIOS date and it was the first release bios aka no one ever updated the bios ever.
Going to the ASUS site i found on one of the later bios changelogs: - Support Devil's Canyon CPU's and enhanced stability.
At that moment on my face there was a very big stupid smile.
Downloaded BIOS -> Updated BIOS -> all the problems went away instantly.
After that i also found out that the waterblock from my C2D fit on the new processor with no problem and I began OC-ing it in full force.
After a couple of weeks of tests, crashes, instability i managed to nail some good settings and stabilized the system at 4.3 Ghz with the memory at DDR3-1600, which i am very happy with and then i started testing some games on PCSX2.
I quickly found out that almost all my PS2 games work better on Software mode rather than Hardware and i couldn't find 1 game that lagged on SW mode at all (out of those in my collection ofc and i don't have all games XD).
With that said and the fact that my MSI Radeon 6870 is getting very old and is already starting to give me random driver crashes (which might be just the driver tho as AMD drivers SUCK) i am now saving up to get a GTX 970 or so in order to bring PC up to today's gaming standards.
Attached a pic of the finished product (i didn't do it alone btw i was helped by a friend).
Hope i didn't bore you guys out with too many details and if i did i apologize and thank you for reading my story
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I would also like to know what you guys think be it good or bad (maybe i should have gotten something else, maybe i am an idiot and could have done something better, who knows).
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