MSI X79A GD45 PLUS alternatives?

Chris Hin

Chris Hin

Chris Hin

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Hey all,

I have very little understanding on picking out hardware for PC builds, but I have a basic knowledge of how to install components.

So what happened was a few months ago my water cooler decided to leak all over my GPU and I think also the motherboard. I have the MSI X79A GD45 PLUS and after replacing the GPU again I'm still not getting any sort of signal to the monitor. Sucks.

Was wondering if anyone knew of a cheaper option instead of purchasing the same motherboard?

I'm not a hard core user, I mainly use the PC for photo editing and maybe a bit of music/film editing. I couldn't tell you what processor I have installed.. All I know is that I bought the PC from PC World in the UK back in 2014 for a stupidly high price. It was overclocked and I got it specifically at the time as thought I'd be getting into gaming. I think I have around 16gb DDR3 and no particular desire to upgrade. Just want it working again basically.

Cheers
 
Hi and welcome to the forums. :)

This is probably not what you want to hear but X79 motherboards came to the end of their lives a few years ago and were replaced by X99 and a different socket so your best bet is to pick up a board second hand. The problem with that is that the X79 boards are going for silly prices on Ebay now and rather than waste money on a expensive second hand board for a outdated platform I would put the money towards a upgrade to a modern platform such as AMD's AM4.

Don't get sucked in by the extremely cheap brand new boards labelled X79 on Ebay because they are no name Chinese knockoffs using random chipsets with socket 2011 added to them. They are not X79 at all but seem to be a mix of H61, B75, P67 and other random chipsets. I would steer well clear of these.
 
Thanks for the quick reply and welcome. Damn.. Ok so I guess I did make investment many years ago now and nothing lasts forever. Umm.. So would you recommend a specific setup then? Something that will future proof me a bit if possible so I'm making a good investment.

Cheers again
 
Chris Hin said:
Thanks for the quick reply and welcome. Damn.. Ok so I guess I did make investment many years ago now and nothing lasts forever. Umm.. So would you recommend a specific setup then? Something that will future proof me a bit if possible so I'm making a good investment.

Cheers again
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the guys will need to know your budget, I think the below would be ok add an m.2 to make it a bit more nippy booting up

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £354.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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