Replacement motherboard

[Gooner99]

Hi. Hopefully I've posted this in the most appropriate section. I built a gaming pc for my son back in 2014 to run steam. He later moved on to gaming consoles and it lay unused. I was going to pass it on to my nephew for his first gaming pc, but it wouldn't turn on. Had it checked and the motherboard is gone. Can anyone advise if I can still get a motherboard that will work with the existing components shown on the image below, while possibly allowing for some upgrade in the future. I guess at this stage a setup would need to be capable of running windows 11. Any questions please ask. Thanks.


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LG 22M45D-B
Serialnr.: 407NDAYD7472

HV203U19DE
Sharkoon T28 green (Window-Kit), ohne Netzteil

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ASRock H97 Pro4, Sockel 1150, ATX
Serialnr.: 46M0XD113742

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ASUS GTX660-DC2OCPH-2GD5 DirectCU II OC 216mm, GeForce GTX 660, 2GB GDDR5, 2x DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort
Serialnr.: E9C0YZ004396

HV13SB71DE
Seagate Barracuda 7200 1000GB, SATA 6Gb/s
Serialnr.: 4501010759 ST1000DM003

HV12Z740DE
Crucial MX100 SSD 128GB (2,5", 7mm)
Serialnr.: 14270C93CFB6

HV20MI48DE
8GB-Kit Crucial Ballistix Sport Series DDR3-1600, CL9
Serialnr.: 6000043667

HV20I546DE
Intel Core i5-4460 in-a-Box
Serialnr.: MC425189A4118

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Corsair CX Series Modular CX500M, 500W
Serialnr.: 14187119

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Aktionsgutschein
Serialnr.:71588

 

[Quartz]

That box is so far below today's minimums you might as well start anew.

 

[Gooner99]

Thanks.

Is it for the bin or parts?

Or would it still be worth getting a new motherboard to use as a general PC running windows 11?

 

[Tetras]

Can anyone advise if I can still get a motherboard that will work with the existing components shown on the image below, while possibly allowing for some upgrade in the future.

Yeah, you can get one, but they're too old (well over 10 years) to find at retail stores anymore.

I agree though, unless it was for light gaming (or only older games), that PC is barely playable and not worth the effort salvaging.

Is it for the bin or parts?

You could keep the storage and the PSU. Graphics card: maybe, but it would struggle even at 1080p with anything recent. Should be fine for esports and casual gaming.

Or would it still be worth getting a new motherboard to use as a general PC running windows 11?

Windows 11 is officially unsupported for anything prior to 8th gen. You'd have to use Rufus, which needs manually doing the feature updates (like 24H2).

 

[sastusbulbas]

You basically have an old Haswell system.

The graphics card is really behind by today's standards, as is the SSD capacity.
8gb of system memory is also extremely low.
Old 500w PSU not really suited to modern systems.

It does not support Windows 11, though there are work arounds to that.

Basic upgrades would be.(All second hand estimated prices)
I7 processor 4770k £30 or 4790k £50
Memory 16gb DDR3 2x8 1866 or 2133 or 2400mts.£60
Graphics card, RX590 8gb £80
240gb SSD for OS £30
1tb SSD for games.
Motherboard Z97 £60

A brand new PSU will be around £60, but you could get a better one in case you want to upgrade further.

And if your case is old I would recommend a Phanteks or NZXT ATX case for around £70 or less new.

It's not going to be a AAA gaming machine but will comfortably play quite a lot of old and less demanding new titles too, reasonably well at 1080p 60hz, with around 60fps.

I know as there are a couple of old 4770k systems here with 16gb of DDR3 and the same graphics card playing Warframe, old Warhammer games, Deep Rock Galactic, Fortnite, PubG, World of Tanks, GTA5, Minecraft and such.

Is it worth it? HELL NO

A replacement Z87/97 motherboard cost the same, if not more than an AM4 550 or AM5 850 motherboard.

You can buy 16gb of DDR4 second hand for the same price or less than 16gb of DDR3.

And a budget AM4 gaming CPU can be bought for slightly more than the 4790k.

So I would recommend buying a new AM4 system with DDR4 at a minimum, with a new case and PSU.

 

[NetMan]

Unfortunately PC's age only slighly better than a basket of fruit...

As above posters you have a 4th gen intel system, Microsoft say you need 8th gen or newer for Windows 11 but there are ways around some of those restrictions.

Your PC uses DDR3 ram where as current gen use DDR5 although there is still demand for DDR4.

Modern games / operating systems need to be run from SSD and yours is too small but the mechanical hard drive would still be ok for secondary storage.

A modern entry level graphics card would have 8GB of ram and be far faster than the one you have.

Sadly it looks like even your monitor isn't much use because modern computers use HDMI or Display Port not the DVI connection it has.

As above you could re use the PSU but a lot of people would not want to risk an old PSU failing and damaging new components.



Before you throw it straight in the bin or sell it for parts would your nephew enjoy taking it apart and seeing if he can get it working?

You can get second hand socket 1150 motherboards for between £20 to £30, thats assuming that it is just the motherboard that has failed and the PSU was showing signs of life e.g. the fans started.

I probably wouldn't bother trying to put Windows on it either and would suggest that if nephew does want to try and get it working he could try a linux distro such as mint.


If nephew only wants to play new games and you decide to bin it instead of trying to sell the parts think about sticking it on something like freecycle because there are people that like messing around with retro stuff.


If you do bin it / give it away is there any personal data or accounts on the old drives, if so you might want to take them out.