Dell Inspiron 660 Motherboard fried. looking for an upgrade

Burnwater

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Ok so for some reason my dell inspiron 660 motherboard is completely shot. i'm looking for a motherboard thats compatible with everything i have and the dell geek squad guy told me that i should get something that doesn't have onboard graphics because it might not be compatible with my graphics card. So my PC specs are:

Intel Core i5 3.1 Ghz
8 GB Ram
Nvidia GTX 660 video card
and i believe a EVGA 600W Bronze PSU

I was looking at something along the lines of these MOBO's but i don't know if they'll work.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131824R
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131965

if anyone can help me out it would be greatly appreciated.

P.S i will not be doing this install Geek Squad is doing it for free along with the case upgrade. because i have no idea what i'm doing lol
 
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I don't know what size is the inspiron 660, but i bet it's at least micro-ATX.

Really, you can use any 1155 board, don't worry. I recommend one with the H77 chipset, it's the most balanced in features.

Frogger12

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The video card has nothing too with onboard graphics i don't listen to a thing those dell people says, as half the time i dont think there even techs you talk to. you can get any motherboard if it has onboard graphics as soon as you plug in your video card it will just not use the onboard.
 

Brunostako

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What core i5 do you have? Are sure it's from the 1155 socket? If that's the case, any 1155 socket motherboard will do the job.

Since 2nd gen Core i, motherboards don't come with onboard graphics, they use the integrated GPU in the CPU.
 

Burnwater

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yes i am sure its a 1155 socket i looked it up. but my thing is now is weather or not the motherboard will fit into the case. i have the standard Dell Inspiron 660 case. i also have an extra case but idk if its ATX or Micro