Honestly I am still open to any and all suggestions.
Thanks forall the help and advice.
Windows license thing kinda worries me though, it would be nice to have a positive answe. Last thing i want is to spend more time in an ancient dying machine. So buying a windows license would be really bad.
Yeah this pc is OLD It used to be my gaming PC back in the old days when Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion and Cryisis came out about 10-11 years ago. But it was converted to my main browsing and work pc.and secondary small gaming for LAN-like coop or lighter games.
And the PC actually worked quite fine and fast even - minus the freezing.
But this is a huge wall collision for me.
I thought about buying a old motherboard that support the 775 socket:
https://m.ivory.co.il/catalog.php?id=6575
This is such a basic model though, only 1 PCI E X16 etc. About 127 $ here in Israel.
There's also a guy on Ebay who sells a 780i SLI Asus Striker. Which seems to be just like my motherboard basically. He sells this for 100$ +70$ shipping. Plus potential tax here in Israel.
Again- if there's a way to get this old boy back in order without spending serious money on it I'd go for it.
Thing is, I have a solid strong Gaming PC based on i5-3570K that is well able to run games at 4K@60fps or 1440p@144MHz with an Asus 1080 Ti Strix OC GPU.
I recently upgraded from a 980 SLI on my main gaming PC - to that 1080 Ti. I decided it's too early for me to build a new pc now. I rather have this gaming pc rocking for as long as I can, and upgrade in the future when the tech leap would be bigger and upgrade more significant and impactful. Besides it's expensive and mentally& time consuming & demanding to research, purchase and assemble a new high end gaming PC from scratch. And I don't feel like spending that kind of money and time now.
My idea was to build a brand new gaming PC (and i've been postponing it) and then have my current beast of a gaming pc move to be my secondary work/gaming/browsing PC. That way I could also use it for some local 2-pc coop games at home, and of course for work.
I just didn't want to be forced to do this now when I am not ready and I don't find it necessary you see?
Buying the 1080Ti was suppose to be a ticket to lengthen my Gaming rig's lifespan and keep it competitive, capable and powerful.
Just wish my 'trusty' old work rig didn't die on me.
There must be a way!.......isn't there?