Hi All,
This is my first time posting, so apologies in advance if I am not doing it right. It's come time for me to upgrade my PC (the video card/motherboard are dying). Seeing as it still has parts largely from 2007 (those, in addition to CPU/RAM/windows XP), it's time for me to more or less replace everything. I already have a new power supply and hard drive, and I'd like to reuse my case, so what I need is MoBo/RAM/Video Card/CPU/OS combination. I was searching around (I'd like to spend ~$500 on everything including upgrading Windows), and I found this thread, which seems to offer suggestions (by Maxime506) on par with what I'd like to get/spend: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2169858/budget-living-room-game-build.html
For reference, this is my power supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139028
Hard drive (unused, pending new OS): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236625
And here is the case I'd like to reuse: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129155
My question is, how does one know whether a case is compatible with a given motherboard? Is the motherboard (Motherboard: ASRock H87M-ITX Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard) compatible, or should I get a non-mini version? Thanks for the advice. Feel free to suggest alternate parts, as my knowledge is fairly limited. It'll be mostly a home desktop computer, used for some light gaming.
Nick
This is my first time posting, so apologies in advance if I am not doing it right. It's come time for me to upgrade my PC (the video card/motherboard are dying). Seeing as it still has parts largely from 2007 (those, in addition to CPU/RAM/windows XP), it's time for me to more or less replace everything. I already have a new power supply and hard drive, and I'd like to reuse my case, so what I need is MoBo/RAM/Video Card/CPU/OS combination. I was searching around (I'd like to spend ~$500 on everything including upgrading Windows), and I found this thread, which seems to offer suggestions (by Maxime506) on par with what I'd like to get/spend: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2169858/budget-living-room-game-build.html
For reference, this is my power supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139028
Hard drive (unused, pending new OS): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236625
And here is the case I'd like to reuse: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129155
My question is, how does one know whether a case is compatible with a given motherboard? Is the motherboard (Motherboard: ASRock H87M-ITX Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard) compatible, or should I get a non-mini version? Thanks for the advice. Feel free to suggest alternate parts, as my knowledge is fairly limited. It'll be mostly a home desktop computer, used for some light gaming.
Nick