Looking for a compatible motherboard for a Intel i7-3770K

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I built a PC with help from the overclockers community back in 2013 and will always be grateful.
Over the years, the USB ports on the back of the machine have been dying one at a time. The front USB ports are now becoming affected.
Current motherboard is the
Gigabyte Z77X-UP4 TH Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 MOTHERBOARD.

I'd looked up stuff and it seemed to be a common error with no fix.
Today, the front USB disconnected an external hard drive and has corrupted the drive (raw partition) and I have pretty much lost years worth of work.

I'd like to get a new motherboard but with my system being 7 years old, most compatible models have been discontinued.

Are there any recommendations for something I'm still able to purchase or if I have to get a new processor and motherboard, what's current that won't break the bank?

Many thanks

Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) -
 
To be honest you'll pay a price premium for any Z77 board. Your i7 is amazingly still worth around £100 used which goes a long way towards purchasing a new AMD Ryzen 5 processor which will be nearly twice as fast. That paired with a B450/B550 motherboard and some DDR4 ram would give you a nice upgrade for not a lot more money than you would pay to replace your motherboard.
 
This is currently the bang for your buck option, not sure if your covered for an SSD but I've included a shiny new nvme as an optional extra.

You may also want to consider a new psu depending on how old your current one.

As Wildman33 said selling your old parts to help offset the cost would make it quite a cheap upgrade.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £494.42 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Joxeon said:
This is currently the bang for your buck option, not sure if your covered for an SSD but I've included a shiny new nvme as an optional extra.

You may also want to consider a new psu depending on how old your current one.

As Wildman33 said selling your old parts to help offset the cost would make it quite a cheap upgrade.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £494.42 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Appreciate the replies and links.
I've attached a screen shot of my current build from my previous order. Is there much that can be reused? RAM for example?

Failing that, I have a friend whose son is wanting to build a gaming PC. Is what I have worth passing on or is it better for him to build using newer parts?

Many thanks
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Case, PSU and mass storage devices are reusable.

TestDisk might be able to restore partition.
Though ideally you would first make bit level clone of drive's content to work with to avoid writing anything to problem drive.

Anyway you should have kept backups of important data.
Double that when dealing with known to be failing PC.


Quad core won't be good gaming PC except for old games.
I mean next-gen consoles coming in late fall/before Christmas have twice the CPU power.
 
EsaT said:
Case, PSU and mass storage devices are reusable.

TestDisk might be able to restore partition.
Though ideally you would first make bit level clone of drive's content to work with to avoid writing anything to problem drive.

Anyway you should have kept backups of important data.
Double that when dealing with known to be failing PC.


Quad core won't be good gaming PC except for old games.
I mean next-gen consoles coming in late fall/before Christmas have twice the CPU power.
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Thanks. I'll start prepping to build again.
 
Out of interest, is there a laptop that may be able to produce similar results without completely breaking the bank?
Wondering if it's worth spending a little extra for portability than to upgrade the desktop.
 
Joxeon said:
This is currently the bang for your buck option, not sure if your covered for an SSD but I've included a shiny new nvme as an optional extra.

You may also want to consider a new psu depending on how old your current one.

As Wildman33 said selling your old parts to help offset the cost would make it quite a cheap upgrade.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £494.42 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Bought this kit but the processor says it needs an external GPU.
I haven't connected anything, so if the motherboard has onbody graphics that will work, that should be fine, otherwise, which low cost graphics card is suitable please?

Many thanks
 
kingkongballs said:
Bought this kit but the processor says it needs an external GPU.
I haven't connected anything, so if the motherboard has onbody graphics that will work, that should be fine, otherwise, which low cost graphics card is suitable please?

Many thanks
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The cheapest Gpu that OCUK do is the GT 710 which should be fine assuming you were just using the onboard from you last chip also you might be able to pick something cheaper up second hand/used.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £53.69 (includes shipping: £8.70)
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Just a quick note to say I got everything set up and running. So a huge thank you for the help and advice.
Only hiccup I had was transferring the OS to the new SSD as it cloned the or the original drive and drive partition and won't make use of the full 1TB of the new drive.

My external hard drive is costing £550 to fix and with only 85% of data recoverable. So overall, an expensive lesson if I can call it that. Didn't learn anything, just lost stuff. Time, data, money.
Oh well
 
kingkongballs said:
My external hard drive is costing £550 to fix and with only 85% of data recoverable. So overall, an expensive lesson if I can call it that. Didn't learn anything, just lost stuff. Time, data, money.
Oh well
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Well you know the old data backup saying: a file doesn't exist unless it is in three places (original, backup and external backup I presume...)

If the data is any way valuable, I'd always recommend seeking professional help and most importantly never try doing anything without cloning.

So, Esat's comment was spot on:
EsaT said:
Though ideally you would first make bit level clone of drive's content to work with to avoid writing anything to problem drive.
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So much so, that I really think all forums should have something like as a sticky. However, even that is only relevant with corruptions like you encountered, formatting, and normal corruptions. Any suspicious of hardware failure (clicking sounds etc.), then even powering on the drive is very risky and best left to some data recovery place.
 
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