- Mar 4, 2014
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Hi friends -
First time (ish) builder and poster here, so forgive any ignorance. I bought my dekstop from HP 4-5 years ago, at the time I didn't know anything in computers and had no desire to learn. Over the years, I have steadily been teaching myself by upgrading parts as they wore out or became out of date. At this point, the only two original pieces anymore are the motherboard (Pegatron something, I think, it seems pretty terrible) and the CPU (i7-920). I've upgraded and installed just about everything else. I recently bought a new heatsink (Coolermaster 212 evo) and went to install it tonight only to find out there was no way to install it on my mobo, since the backplate was attached to the...umm...thing that holds the CPU down? I took that whole thing off to use the one supplied by Coolermaster only to find that it wouldn't fit with the new screws. There's also a dead RAM slot and a few PINs for plugging in the Case LEDs (not sure what those are called) that don't work.
Long story short, I want to replace my motherboard. I do a fair bit of gaming, but I would say I'm happy with an upper-mid range gaming rig. I have no desire to do any overclocking, or run multiple video cards or really get into the BIOS or anything (to be perfectly frank, I have no idea what the BIOS actually is). I'm really just looking for a good, stable motherboard that will run games decently well with my other parts.
This is the one I've been looking at, but I'm a little concerned with buying a mobo in this range since there are some which are significantly more expensive. For someone who doesn't want to do any overclocking or anything, is a more expensive mobo really necessary?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131837&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=6146836&SID=bjr38g0ygw1k
Thanks again and I look forward to reading your responses!
First time (ish) builder and poster here, so forgive any ignorance. I bought my dekstop from HP 4-5 years ago, at the time I didn't know anything in computers and had no desire to learn. Over the years, I have steadily been teaching myself by upgrading parts as they wore out or became out of date. At this point, the only two original pieces anymore are the motherboard (Pegatron something, I think, it seems pretty terrible) and the CPU (i7-920). I've upgraded and installed just about everything else. I recently bought a new heatsink (Coolermaster 212 evo) and went to install it tonight only to find out there was no way to install it on my mobo, since the backplate was attached to the...umm...thing that holds the CPU down? I took that whole thing off to use the one supplied by Coolermaster only to find that it wouldn't fit with the new screws. There's also a dead RAM slot and a few PINs for plugging in the Case LEDs (not sure what those are called) that don't work.
Long story short, I want to replace my motherboard. I do a fair bit of gaming, but I would say I'm happy with an upper-mid range gaming rig. I have no desire to do any overclocking, or run multiple video cards or really get into the BIOS or anything (to be perfectly frank, I have no idea what the BIOS actually is). I'm really just looking for a good, stable motherboard that will run games decently well with my other parts.
This is the one I've been looking at, but I'm a little concerned with buying a mobo in this range since there are some which are significantly more expensive. For someone who doesn't want to do any overclocking or anything, is a more expensive mobo really necessary?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131837&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=6146836&SID=bjr38g0ygw1k
Thanks again and I look forward to reading your responses!
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