Help need new motherboard socket 1150

Tim158

Tim158

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Hi all

Need some help my daughter's pc packed (Median erazer) up and it seems to be the motherboard.

Need to get a new one and a cooling case to fit a second hand MSI Radeon R 9 290 twin frozr gaming card 4gb.

She uses it for online gaming

It has ddr3 8gb x2
I7 -4790
Corsair VS 650 psu (upgraded)

Many thanks
 
Welcome to the forum.

An easy inexpensive choice (no point throwing too much money at an old socket/DDR3 platform, plus "Z" options are now limited) is the Asus H81M-Plus, which can be found for £45-ish.

If you go for that it will fit in a micro-ATX case (also in ATX case if you want bigger for future systems). What budget for the case? And does the i7-4790 have a decent cooler on it or the stock Intel cooler?

If you aren't 100% sure it's the motherboard, there's a few things to try.
 
Thanks Danny

Yes it's the motherboard.
Using the stock Intel cooler.
Probably go for larger case for future upgrade. The graphics card got very hot in the old case, but there is not much cooling.
Any recommendations on a cpu cooler and ATX case (not to expensive)

Thanks
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £379.91 (includes shipping: £23.10)​
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Any tower-style 120mm fan CPU cooler with three or four heatpipes will do more than nicely for an i7-4790 at stock. And maybe you have a spare fan or two, to add to the case. Those two case varieties take max 160mm tall CPU cooler.

I also like the design for the new NZXT H500 but it's not available yet. Apparently won't be too expensive either.

 
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Danny75 said:
Welcome to the forum.

An easy inexpensive choice (no point throwing too much money at an old socket/DDR3 platform, plus "Z" options are now limited) is the Asus H81M-Plus, which can be found for £45-ish.
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Not OP, but I'm wondering will that take his 4790? That was a Haswell Refresh chip and it was the H97 and Z97 that took it out of the box. While it is a while now and updated BIOSs have shipped for the first Haswell chip sets, can you tell which has the update?
 
AETAaAS said:
Not OP, but I'm wondering will that take his 4790? That was a Haswell Refresh chip and it was the H97 and Z97 that took it out of the box. While it is a while now and updated BIOSs have shipped for the first Haswell chip sets, can you tell which has the update?
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There might be some way of telling through the label on the box but I wouldn't know. I'd probably look for a manufacturing date. Otherwise, the board itself will have the BIOS revision imprinted somewhere (usually above or below the first PCIe slot), but that requires opening the box. However, you'd have to be extremely unlucky to land an old BIOS motherboard four years on from 4790 launch, because within 3-9 months of Haswell refresh/Devil's Canyon the boards being sold seemingly all had updated BIOS.
 
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