[SOLVED] Buying a MOBO or Changing platform?

[AFantasyHero]

Hi guys!
A few months ago I grabbed a MSI Duke GTX 1070 ti and put it on my old ascrock H61M-VS3 + Intel i7 3770k machine.
I can pretty much run all the games I want and do Photoshop, After Effects/Premiere@1080p with no problem.

Recently I noticed that the PCIe lock on my MOBO is broken and the GPU is a bit sagging. (Although I have put a cardboard under it to support it a bit.) I also do not have USB 3 on the board which is annoying.

I was thinking of buying a LGA 1155 Z77 board and even OCing my current CPU + getting access to sweet USB 3.0 and also front USB 3.0 headers.
I can also sell my MOBO+CPU and get a cheap H310 board + i3 9100f, although Im unsure if I could upgrade from that 9100f in a while and its 4 thread worries me in productivity...

What would you do if you were in my place?

 

[Lutfij]

Z77 would allow you to overclock, yes but the upgrade would be horizontal not vertical. I'd ask you to look into a new platform and retire the current system, since you can do a lot more for less power draw. Speaking of power draw, what is the make and model of your PSU and it's age?

 

[AFantasyHero]

Z77 would allow you to overclock, yes but the upgrade would be horizontal not vertical. I'd ask you to look into a new platform and retire the current system, since you can do a lot more for less power draw. Speaking of power draw, what is the make and model of your PSU and it's age?

It is a known PSU brand in my country and many people use it.
It is a 580 watt Bronze 80 PSU
https://green.ir/products/power-supply/gp580a-esd

 

[CountMike]

Hi guys!
A few months ago I grabbed a MSI Duke GTX 1070 ti and put it on my old ascrock H61M-VS3 + Intel i7 3770k machine.
I can pretty much run all the games I want and do Photoshop, After Effects/Premiere@1080p with no problem.

Recently I noticed that the PCIe lock on my MOBO is broken and the GPU is a bit sagging. (Although I have put a cardboard under it to support it a bit.) I also do not have USB 3 on the board which is annoying.

I was thinking of buying a LGA 1155 Z77 board and even OCing my current CPU + getting access to sweet USB 3.0 and also front USB 3.0 headers.
I can also sell my MOBO+CPU and get a cheap H310 board + i3 9100f, although Im unsure if I could upgrade from that 9100f in a while and its 4 thread worries me in productivity...

What would you do if you were in my place?

If I was married I would use situation as perfect excuse to upgrade. I doubt that 9100f would be much better than 3770k for work. Those 4 missing threads are going to be missed.
Don't forget you'd need DDR4 too.
Take a look at new Ryzen platform, almost anything would be better and possibly cheaper with better upgradeability.