Need help picking a mobo that will be compatible with my parts.

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Nayroy

Nayroy

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I have a pre-build HP desktop, never been tweaked with. I bought an Asus 970 Mini along with a 520W 80+bronze PSU from SeaSonic, but not realizing my current mobo is not compatible with 970s'. I'm not looking for the cheapest board, but I do want quality and good customer support from whatever manufacturer makes the mobo, what I'm currently looking at is this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157515.

right now, my PC has the following:
Mobo: Pegatron 2AC2, 2 RAM slots, 1 x16 2.0 PCIe slot, 3 x1 PCIe slots, LGA 1155, H61
CPU: i7-2600 with what looks like stock cooling
GPU: (current) Radeon HD 6670, (new) Asus GTS 970 Mini
RAM: x2 4G Samsung PC3-10600U DDR3 1333 Non-ECC unbuff memory
HDD: x1 1.5T 5900 RPM SATA 2
Fans: x1 120?mm rear chassis

The mobo will have to also fit a x1 PCIe wifi card and I may install a SSD into my system. If there's something else that needs to be explained and or more information provided, I will try my best to answer.
 
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''about 2.0 mobos working with 3.0 interface gpus, and it seems that the card would work on those mobos, so I wonder why mine can't. ''

if you mean on the HP board its because it a HP proprietary board with a HP proprietary bios and the 900 card need full uefi bios support as well

see what the evga tech said on this guy HP

http://forums.evga.com/Problem-with-New-GTX960-1-long-beep-3-short-beep-m2468528.aspx


see how it for the most part on a hp board ''its not going to work''

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Audio/EVGA-Geforce-GTX-960-4GB/td-p/5205344

''The Pegatron 2AC2 is not compatible with the 900 series of cards, unfortunatly. You would have to purchase a new mobo. ''...
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not much left out there in a 1155 board ?? and then I bet its a M-ATX as well, that narrows things down a bit more unless you get a new case ??

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007627 600093976

last time I looked at these most were out of stock ??

https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/motherboard/#s=14&sort=a8&page=1

looks like the most are the h61 like you got but at least that have a open bios and should accept the card ??

but nothings guaranteed with a 900 card anyway on older boards ??
 
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The BIOS update that's listed on HP's site and other sites is the one that's currently running on my board. I looked through Google before making my original post, and saw many threads/posts about HP's mobo now working on 700 and 900 series cards from Nvidia. One of the links junkeymonkey posted had someone from HP state that some of their mobo won't support 700 or new Nvidia cards, and according to CPUID, my mobo is from late 2011.
 
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prebuilts an upgrades are all your own risk bottom line is them company's like HP and all only guarantee there stuff to work with what they put on them or authorized to be used as in highly proprietary

so if it works great, if not well too bad , better luck next time ..

sad thing is like now you want a nice aftermarket replacement board and now with the 1155 sure seems to be getting phased out fast so like I said its down to slim pickings in any thing available and still in stock to sell

wish I had better to tell you on this
 
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I was on live chat with someone from ASRock and they were telling me that their 970 worked on their mobo, they said they even tested it as I was live chatting. They said that since their board's x16 PCIe slot is 3.0, the 970 should work, the x16 on my current board is 2.0, they also stated the last time the board received a BIOS update was 10/11/2013. Also this is the mobo they said they checked the 970 on and the one I was thinking of getting.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157515&RandomID=16507721768216120160503151158

If the board doesn't work with the card, can I return the board, opened product, back to newegg for a refund?
 
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I think I'm going to go with the ASRock board. Before I buy it, is there anything that I might need, other than a phillips screw driver? My current mobo doesn't have stand offs.
 
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well cant say what HP factory case has for mounting ? like I was saying can be some kinda or proprietary thing or just hard non removable standoffs cause it just a M-atx case only ??? being there both M-ATX boards it should be close to pull the old HP out and mount the new asrock in ??

add your hardware and do a fresh install of windows..

I donr these swaps a few times and never ran in to any real probs with a hp just tight fit at most


look at this some may help ? at 17:18 see the ''standoffs '' just raised spots built in to the case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdF6fVjBiSA
 
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The specs from HP say's the mobo is UATX and I'm sure I read somewhere that's the same size as Micro ATX boards, I may be wrong though. The board looks like it has 6 screws holding it in place and a flat head looks like it should work. Also, I think the case does have standoffs, there are small holes where the screws are at where the mobo is mounted. I don't have a copy of windows, does microsoft have a way to download it? Would I need anything extra to switch the boards?

I was looking through Google and saw a lot of posts/threads about 2.0 mobos working with 3.0 interface gpus, and it seems that the card would work on those mobos, so I wonder why mine can't.
 
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''about 2.0 mobos working with 3.0 interface gpus, and it seems that the card would work on those mobos, so I wonder why mine can't. ''

if you mean on the HP board its because it a HP proprietary board with a HP proprietary bios and the 900 card need full uefi bios support as well

see what the evga tech said on this guy HP

http://forums.evga.com/Problem-with-New-GTX960-1-long-beep-3-short-beep-m2468528.aspx


see how it for the most part on a hp board ''its not going to work''

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Audio/EVGA-Geforce-GTX-960-4GB/td-p/5205344

''The Pegatron 2AC2 is not compatible with the 900 series of cards, unfortunatly. You would have to purchase a new mobo. ''

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/857462/computer-won-t-boot-pass-hp-startup-menu-after-installing-a-gtx-970/
 
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@junkeymoney
I remembered one of the links had someone from HP state that the 700 and 900 series cards need uefi and a lot of their mobos don't have it.

@Eximo
Yeah, I Googled it a bit after my previous post and read that. I should of edited my post.

Before I commit to the ASRock mobo, (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157515) I just want to make sure my PSU (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151094) I bought has all the connections to power it.
 
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