upgrade a motherboard for an All-In-One Gateway ZX4931

[milesik]

I have a 21" touchscreen All-In-One Gateway ZX4931-31E w/7gb ram, and a 500GB SSD. I have just upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10. I would like to upgrade the Mother Board in the direction of a more powerful gaming computer.

 

[Twigman]

Im not sure what motherboard it uses (although from the size I'm guessing mini-ITX?) but just a word of warning, the free upgrade to windows 10 means that the computer is going to accept very few, if any, hardware changes before it requires you to buy a new copy of win-10 outright.

Twig

 

[milesik]

Im not sure what motherboard it uses (although from the size I'm guessing mini-ITX?) but just a word of warning, the free upgrade to windows 10 means that the computer is going to accept very few, if any, hardware changes before it requires you to buy a new copy of win-10 outright.

Twig[/quotemsg Appreciate the response. I believe I'm going to revert back to Win 7 anyway. I found that the MB has a DIG43L designation which would make it a Micro-ATX. But since this is a All-In-One Touchscreen, would I be able to use a Micro-ATX with an 13/15/17 CPU with Integrated Graphics (e.g. GIGABYTE GA-B85M-Gaming 3)

 

[Twigman]

Same caution with windows 7, the product key is tied to your motherboard so it may-or-may not play nicely with a new motherboard. You can use the integrated graphics for gaming, but don't expect blazing fast frame rates at high settings though.

Twig