Upgrade time....finally

Wazza67 · 4 Feb 2015 at 22:58

Looking to upgrade my aging system(built it about 6 years ago.. :eek:

) and although I've read up a bit I'm a bit out of the loop....
I've been looking @ cpu/mobo bundles that I can drop(not literally) a 4790k into.
Is there a lot of difference in performance between the main Z97 brands? Or do you pick a favourite brand or the onboard extras(ports et al)?

Waz

Mrjobby · 5 Feb 2015 at 10:50

What are you coming from?

Might give us a bit of a better picture as to what would be a "upgrade"

stuie · 5 Feb 2015 at 11:19

6 years ago im guessing will be q6600 territory

Wazza67 · 5 Feb 2015 at 12:14

I'm coming from a Core 2 duo X6800. The cpu is ok but my motherboard is starting to fail. Doesn't always boot and I get random errors e.g. usb ports not recognising devices.
I've tried a borrowed power supply but the result is the same....

Wazza67 · 6 Feb 2015 at 13:59

So come on then....Asus, Gigabyte or MSI?
I know in the past Asus have a good rep for reliability and warranty, MSI less so. Things changed or still the same??

stuie · 6 Feb 2015 at 16:15

Id go with gigabyte uk rma and some top notch boards

Swagger187 · 7 Feb 2015 at 17:30

ASUS boards are solid and so is MSI. I have owned both as well as Gigabyte and all been great. Which ever one you prefer the look/colour of

Mads1 · 8 Feb 2015 at 12:14

ive only had msi boards only had one prob with a bricked bios update but they changed board under a rma and was done within a week, i had the z87m and now a z97m but upgrading in next month myself, would like to keep with msi but looking to go with evga for a change but msi worth a look.

Wazza67 · 9 Feb 2015 at 22:59

Thanks for the replies guys.
I've decided to get a Ranger VII. :-)