Upgrade advice

Burnout81 · 26 Mar 2015 at 16:27

I am looking into upgrading GPU from a 6950 to a 970 and possibly 2 970s after a month or two. although i dont think my motherboard supports SLI , only crossfire

so i guess ill be needing a new motherboard to sort that out ?
im using a i5-3570k so i am unsure about a motherboard which will be able to use my old cpu as i dont really "need" to upgrade this at the moment i think ?

will i definitley need to upgrade my motherboard for SLI?
will i need to upgrade cpu as well for a new motherboard?

thanks

stulid · 26 Mar 2015 at 16:29

What board do you have? what are the full system specs?

There are no new Z77 boards instock, so 2nd hand is all you will fine.

If you buy a new Z97 SLI ready board then you will need a new CPU.

Burnout81 · 26 Mar 2015 at 16:32

my board at the moment is gigabyte Z77-d3h

thats what i thought, thanks for quick reply

new boy · 26 Mar 2015 at 16:33

Dual GPU sigle card like a 295x2 could be an option.

Obviously means you would have to shell out all the money at once.

Might be crossfire compatible if not SLI compatable, with pci-3, a slot running at 4x might not be the end of the world.

Burnout81 · 27 Mar 2015 at 15:05

i think ill stick with a single 970 then for now, until i have real reason to upgrade the CPU

Burnout81 · 29 Mar 2015 at 22:24

Found some z77 motherboards on competitor still being sold they are asrock ones I'm not familiar with the brand are they alright will they be OK for my setup if I went this route?

stulid · 29 Mar 2015 at 22:48

Can you find anything else from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI?

Andreas.96 · 29 Mar 2015 at 23:06

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Burnout81 · 29 Mar 2015 at 23:14

Unfortunately not all I can find anywhere are these asrock boards the MSI gigabyte ones are all single card slots only that I can find. I guess the as rock are to be avoided then haha ?

stulid · 29 Mar 2015 at 23:17

I had one, blew up, poor support too.

Burnout81 · 8 May 2015 at 16:54

i realise this is an old thread but thought it better to post here than start a new topic.
i found a z77x d3h motherboard for sale for about £90
my current motherboard is the z77d3h if i were to swap in the X version what changes would need to be made ? reinstall OS ? new OS even? as it is OEM any other changes im not thinking about ?

stulid · 8 May 2015 at 17:06

Its the same chipset+drivers, it will be a straight swap.

Just check the BIOS is the latest on it.