My father currently has (had) a PC for basic office use running an i3 3225 on a B75 motherboard, but so far as I can test with spares, the motherboard seems to have died.
As I have a spare i3 6100 from a build which was never completed, I wondered if it was better locating one of the rarer H110 DDR3L motherboards, since the age of the PC means I'd need 2nd hand anyway. Despite being a lower chipset, the newer H110 seems to have most of what the B75 has.
Googling "Skylake + DDR3L" seems to mostly produce the answer "eww", but I wondered if it would really hurt a system mostly used for office work that much, considering the substantial cost of DDR4. I currently have 8gb of crucial ballistix DDR3, which has a XMP profile for 1.35v, which I believe basically makes it DDR3L- feels like it would be a waste to lose it.
Am I better off just replacing the B75 mother like-for-like and continuing with the old i3 3225 or getting a H110 DDR3L motherboard and switching to a slightly newer generation?
As I have a spare i3 6100 from a build which was never completed, I wondered if it was better locating one of the rarer H110 DDR3L motherboards, since the age of the PC means I'd need 2nd hand anyway. Despite being a lower chipset, the newer H110 seems to have most of what the B75 has.
Googling "Skylake + DDR3L" seems to mostly produce the answer "eww", but I wondered if it would really hurt a system mostly used for office work that much, considering the substantial cost of DDR4. I currently have 8gb of crucial ballistix DDR3, which has a XMP profile for 1.35v, which I believe basically makes it DDR3L- feels like it would be a waste to lose it.
Am I better off just replacing the B75 mother like-for-like and continuing with the old i3 3225 or getting a H110 DDR3L motherboard and switching to a slightly newer generation?