took my PC to Geek Squad and was told I need a new motherboard (I was afraid it was my gpu or psu, both of which I just bought last year, so I guess I'm glad it at least wasn't one of those). I'm not very tech-literate, so I'm looking for suggestions. preferably something that will work with my current setup (which is a Frankenstein homebrew of parts I've upgraded over the past few years, used to be a Dell, but basically nothing is left of the original, not even the tower/case), as well as being relatively future-proof (getting kinda sick of buying new components every couple years or so).
My current setup is as follows:
-old motherboard was a Gigabyte 970a-ud3 with 2x4gb ddr3 sdram
-gpu: EVGA GeForce gtx 950 (2gb)
-PSU: Corsair RM650x
-CPU: AMD fx-6100 Zambezi 6-core 3.3ghz socket am3+ 95w
I do some PC gaming (mainly League of Legends and Hearthstone), photoshop, and electronic music production. I don't necessarily need super high-end (nor can I afford it), but like I said, I'd like it to last me a while. My main concern is that it work with my current setup without modification or having to do additional upgrades (or minimal, at least). Last time I changed MBs, I had to get a different case because all the inputs on the back were aligned differently. I also had to do some modification on the case when I upgraded my PSU (took some tin snips and cut out/extended the opening for the power cord to reach).
Anyways, been putting this off for several weeks, and I'm not tech-savvy enough to pick the right component myself. I typically come check out Tom's "best of" lists whenever I get ready to upgrade components, but I'm just afraid of buying something that turns out to be incompatible and/or require additional upgrades (though I am aware I might have to invest in upgrades to memory or cpu depending on what I end up getting). Figured this community was a good place to start looking for suggestions.
Thanks in advance!
My current setup is as follows:
-old motherboard was a Gigabyte 970a-ud3 with 2x4gb ddr3 sdram
-gpu: EVGA GeForce gtx 950 (2gb)
-PSU: Corsair RM650x
-CPU: AMD fx-6100 Zambezi 6-core 3.3ghz socket am3+ 95w
I do some PC gaming (mainly League of Legends and Hearthstone), photoshop, and electronic music production. I don't necessarily need super high-end (nor can I afford it), but like I said, I'd like it to last me a while. My main concern is that it work with my current setup without modification or having to do additional upgrades (or minimal, at least). Last time I changed MBs, I had to get a different case because all the inputs on the back were aligned differently. I also had to do some modification on the case when I upgraded my PSU (took some tin snips and cut out/extended the opening for the power cord to reach).
Anyways, been putting this off for several weeks, and I'm not tech-savvy enough to pick the right component myself. I typically come check out Tom's "best of" lists whenever I get ready to upgrade components, but I'm just afraid of buying something that turns out to be incompatible and/or require additional upgrades (though I am aware I might have to invest in upgrades to memory or cpu depending on what I end up getting). Figured this community was a good place to start looking for suggestions.
Thanks in advance!
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