Motherboard Compatibility Asrock H81M-DGS

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FF_Guy

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I have an Asrock H81M-DGS motherboard with a Pentium G3220,and MSI GeForce GT 630 4GB
and 6GB RAM memory.I have been thinking about an upgrade ,so I plan to buy GTX 970,i7 4790k,and 16GB Corsair RAM memory and of course a new PSU CM V650S. So can I run this sort of a PC on that motherboard? I have been thinking if I couldn't run it on this motherboard that I could buy Asus z97-a.
 
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NerdyComputerGuy
Afternoon,

Everything is compatible, the new CPU should work fine since it is 1150, the new GPU should work fine since you have a PCI x16 slot so there is no reason why it wouldn't work and the motherboard supports upto 16GB ram along with 1600Mhz clock memory. The Power Supply will be compatible as-well, (There should be enough amps on the 12+ v2 volt rail for your GPU as well.

Only your current mobo doesn't support SLI so you can't get another 970 in the future and put them in SLI, you would need the z97-a if you want to do that.

Kind Regards,
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Afternoon,

Everything is compatible, the new CPU should work fine since it is 1150, the new GPU should work fine since you have a PCI x16 slot so there is no reason why it wouldn't work and the motherboard supports upto 16GB ram along with 1600Mhz clock memory. The Power Supply will be compatible as-well, (There should be enough amps on the 12+ v2 volt rail for your GPU as well.

Only your current mobo doesn't support SLI so you can't get another 970 in the future and put them in SLI, you would need the z97-a if you want to do that.

Kind Regards,
 
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You could run those on that motherboard but personally I wouldn't. It utilises PCIE 2.0 instead of 3.0 meaning you won't get the most from the gtx 970. Also, it only supports up to 1600Mhz RAM and personally I think that should be the minimum speed your RAM should be running at these days. The Asus z97-a on the other hand has the capability to run your gtx 970 at pcie 3.0 and has good memory capacity. Personally, if you're going to fork out the money to buy those new parts which are pretty good you want to run them well, so I'd go for a new motherboard
 
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