dead motherboard, mass upgrade or short term fix?

spartan225 · 14 Oct 2014 at 03:49

Hey, my motherboard has been playing up recently, and its finally given up. I now need to decide wheather an upgrade is worth it, as i need to spend money on a new motherboard anyway. Or should i stick with a short term fix and upgrade in a year or so.

Here are my current specs:

Asus 7950-DC2T-3GD5-V2
Intel 2600k
Alpenfohm K2 cooler
4 * Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
Samsung 128GB SSD 830
8tb of various HDDs
Antec 1100 case

if i am only getting a new motherboard i'd rather not go over £100. But if i go for a upgrade i will go to £600. What options do i have?

marc2003 · 14 Oct 2014 at 04:18

IMHO, your cpu is still mighty fine and i'd just look at replacing the mobo. if you really want a bit more gaming grunt, then you could look at upgrading your graphics card. i'm well out of the loop with new stuff so i'm sure others can chime in.

edited: because i thought you only had 4GB ram but it looks like you have 4x4GB which is more than enough.

stulid · 14 Oct 2014 at 04:18

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-280-GI&groupid=595&catid=689

Cheap fix.

P4Clock · 14 Oct 2014 at 06:32

stulid said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-280-GI&groupid=595&catid=689

Cheap fix.

+1, 1155 as a lot of life left in it.
Some nice new ram would not go a miss, 4gb is ok but 8gb is the new standard

spartan225 · 14 Oct 2014 at 07:54

It was 4 x 4gb for ram, so 16 gb.

ill stick to just a mobo for now then, if i was to look at a gfx boost, what card would you suggest?

Purgatory · 14 Oct 2014 at 08:06

What graphics card do you currently have ? Also totally agree with what others have said. Replace the motherboard.

spartan225 · 14 Oct 2014 at 08:37

currently have an asus 7950.

might think about grabbing another SSD, 128 isnt really enough.

P4Clock · 14 Oct 2014 at 08:38

spartan225 said:
It was 4 x 4gb for ram, so 16 gb.

ill stick to just a mobo for now then, if i was to look at a gfx boost, what card would you suggest?

i miss read i thought you had 4gb, 16gb is more then you need to be future proof

P4Clock · 14 Oct 2014 at 08:40

spartan225 said:
currently have an asus 7950.

might think about grabbing another SSD, 128 isnt really enough.

7950 is fine for games as now but a nice cheap upgrade would be to drop a second one in, you have a tone of head room with your i7

spartan225 · 14 Oct 2014 at 09:41

P4Clock said:
7950 is fine for games as now but a nice cheap upgrade would be to drop a second one in, you have a tone of head room with your i7

seccond one sounds good. ill read up on crossfire, learn some more about it. i have the 3 slot asus card atm.

Thanks to all for the advice aswell

pastymuncher · 14 Oct 2014 at 18:54

Just get a Z77 motherboard for it. You should be able to pick up a decent one for £50 or so second hand. The 2600K is still a very capable cpu, even more so when overclocked.