I have a great space saving system and I want to keep my case but I don’t know what motherboards I can get that use laptop ram and 2 m.2 drive slots (1 M key and 1 B key) I don’t want to spend a whole lot on my upgrade, just a new motherboard and cpu. It doesn’t have to have both m.2 slots but I would need one M key since that is going to be my boot drive.
I am using an MSI Aegis X barebones system with 16gb of sodimm ram and an intel i7 6700k and I just recently upgraded to a GTX 1080 ti. I would like to upgrade to the i7 9700k or possibly something a little better. I am willing to switch over to AMD cpu if there is about the same or better gaming and photo/video editing performance as the i7 8700k.
I also have two 2tb HDDs and another smaller old 500 gb HDD from my old laptop with the boot drive being the 512gb m.2 drive (also wondering how to switch boot drive to my faster 1tb m.2 drive and get rid of the windows install on old drive without losing data)
I was also wondering if it was possible to replace the psu fan with something quieter because that is the loudest part of the system.
I am using an MSI Aegis X barebones system with 16gb of sodimm ram and an intel i7 6700k and I just recently upgraded to a GTX 1080 ti. I would like to upgrade to the i7 9700k or possibly something a little better. I am willing to switch over to AMD cpu if there is about the same or better gaming and photo/video editing performance as the i7 8700k.
I also have two 2tb HDDs and another smaller old 500 gb HDD from my old laptop with the boot drive being the 512gb m.2 drive (also wondering how to switch boot drive to my faster 1tb m.2 drive and get rid of the windows install on old drive without losing data)
I was also wondering if it was possible to replace the psu fan with something quieter because that is the loudest part of the system.