Epsilon Vi

Well I've done some overclocking with AMD Overdrive on my old computer and it for sure helped. I clocked my 3.2Ghz amd phenom 2 x4 to 3.6Ghz but that sucker heated up fast and prior to getting a new cpu cooler it would reach temps that shut my system down when gaming lol. I heard of people getting their phenom 2s to 3.7-8 but it was always unstable when I tried 3.7, for example the "monitor freezing", blue screens/etc. I'd also check to see if your motherboard doesn't already let you do some OCing in it. So it really is up to you and what you can handle when under full load and pumping out heat.

The HD 7750 will draw its power through the motherboard and on a PCIe x16 lane that is about 75W. The same with the HD 6570. Granted they will only draw as much power as they need, but you'll hit a wall fast. Your current processor needs at least 65W. Since you have it overclocked a bit, and I'm not sure on the method you did that, it may want a little more juice. Then one stick of ram will eat ~5W. If you have 2 that is 10W. Throw in your fans that are probably standard and you might consume another ~10W total. Your hdd if it is a normal 7200 rpm will probably be about ~25W for just one drive. I think it is roughly the same amount for an optical drive so another ~25W. You're already redlining at this point in in your power consumption. Granted the power consumption of each component is dependent on its status, but you should assume for near maximum draw when working with power and provide yourself with mucho room for expansion. In my honest opinion, you will probably be able to use an upgraded card, to an extent, during times of maximum draw or maybe not a whole lot of draw your system could shut down//blue screen, etc. I'm just providing you my insight, you don't need to listen to it.

Well you don't need to get a new computer because you have a handful of options. I've personally experience this popping sound which is accompanied by a very uneasy smell, something like fried electronics and batteries and things like that. Needless to say it was the power supply itself. If I were you I would just remove the graphics card, leaving empty lanes and plug the power cable into the power supply and try to power up. (after you inspect your hardware for any damage to traces, capacitors, etc) The fan should spin in the power supply, and other fans in your computer and various lights should be working. If none of it works you likely have a dead PSU. Since it is not that old, I would for sure check your warranties on the product. If it does work, then that is weird, and it might have been something on the graphics card. As for a new computer; your current specs are on the low side for a heavy gamer but you should be good for a few years to come. If you need help figuring out your next system build, I'd love to help! I have some good recommendations.

Reset your network infrastructure (specifically your router/modem/switches). Also try removing your network driver on your computer and re-installing it if the previous solution fails. Try other computers if you can, and if you are using WiFi use a network cable and viceversa, finding out if the problem is specific to your machine or everything on your network is a step in the right direction.

My suggestion would be to have multiple HDDs. One for recording on and one for your game, this will in no way solve your whole crappy FPS problem while recording but it will grant you a handful of frames but it all depends on your hardware and other limitations as well due to your current configuration. But I will insist that it is all due to your hardware limitations. A good idea might be to run your feed to another system for recording-then back to your monitors or tv; which is what I do, and that enables me to play my games without any restrictions from the recording equipment and I get beautiful 60+ FPS uncompressed raw footage. If you end up taking that route, make sure your recording computer has the hard drive capacity and power (by power i mean writing/reading of the hard drive). I have 2 640GB WD 7200RPM hard drives in a raid 0 where the data is striped, so basically I get a bit better reading and writing speed but not a whole crap ton. When I'm recording, my recording computer is "red-lining" if you will, the HDDs are writing all the data that is coming in and my -cpu- quad core amd phenom x2 black edition OCd to 3.6 Ghz is probably my bottleneck. Anyways just providing some insight on my experience.Maybe you or someone else will get some ideas.

Very much excited for the releases coming this year!