LGA 1150 in 775 Socket

[dovyaffe]

Noob here. I have an i7 4770s but the motherboard is proprietary. I was wondering if I could buy a motherboard with an LGA 775 socket and use the 1150 CPU in it?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

No you can't ....Sorry.

CPU sockets are not backwards compatible , 1150 CPU needs 1150 board.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Of course not.
LGA 1150 cpu requires motherboard with LGA1150 socket. It cannot be used in LGA 775 motherboard.

 

[dovyaffe]

What would you recommend for a mid range motherboard with the ability to upgrade to 32-64gb ram and plenty of pictures exress expandibilty? Compatible with the 4770s. Thanks.

 

[dontlistentome]

The Haswell CPUs, which use the 1150 socket, are what you are working with.

So, then, you'll be looking for motherboards that support Haswell CPUs. Manufacturers, such as Asus/MSI/Gigabyte, all offered a range of motherboards from inexpensive to high end. The chipsets were H81 on the low end to Q85/87 in the mid end to Z87 on the high end.

Since you mentioned mid range, I'd suggest looking at the Q85 or 87s on the used market. They should include 8 PCI-ex 2.0 expansion slots and 4 memory slots, max memory supported would depend on the make and model.

 

[SkyNetRising]

What would you recommend for a mid range motherboard with the ability to upgrade to 32-64gb ram and plenty of pictures exress expandibilty? Compatible with the 4770s. Thanks.

32GB is upper limit for 4770s.