New Mobo required

[maxmee2070]

my mobo is a LGA1150 Z87 Gigabyte,but is now defective. what can I buy to replace it or do I need to do a new build?

 

[richiestang_78]

Depends if you want to upgrade the CPU and RAM as well since all new chips use DDR4 and your board is DDR3.

As far as a replacement you can probably find some cheap ones on ebay, craiglist etc.

The one thing to remember is if you change motherboards you'll need to reinstall Windows to avoid hardware/software conflicts unless you find the exact same motherboard. Youll also have to transfer your Windows key from Microsoft when you change the motherboard hardware as well.

 

[maxmee2070]

If I'm upgrading the cpu and ram as well that would mean I probably should be looking at a new build?
my old set up is a i5 4670| Cooler Master Hyper 212 evo | Gigabyte NVidia GTX650 TI 2Gb|8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 |Cooler Master storm Scout 2|500Gb SSD, 4TBHDD |Windows 10

 

[maxmee2070]

Depends if you want to upgrade the CPU and RAM as well since all new chips use DDR4 and your board is DDR3.

As far as a replacement you can probably find some cheap ones on ebay, craiglist etc.

The one thing to remember is if you change motherboards you'll need to reinstall Windows to avoid hardware/software conflicts unless you find the exact same motherboard. Youll also have to transfer your Windows key from Microsoft when you change the motherboard hardware as well.

If I'm upgrading the cpu and ram as well that would mean I probably should be looking at a new build?
my old set up is a i5 4670| Cooler Master Hyper 212 evo | Gigabyte NVidia GTX650 TI 2Gb|8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 |Cooler Master storm Scout 2|500Gb SSD, 4TBHDD |Windows 10

 

[richiestang_78]

The i7 4790k is the best CPU you can get with your current motherboard. I dont know what kind of budget you have but getting a better GPu would be a far bigger performance boost for you then CPU