So I purchased a cheap refurbished HP PAVILION P6310Y DESKTOP and quickly regretted not building my own.
Thus, slowly but surely I have been replacing components as money permits.
I just purchased an SSD (the OCZ) from newegg on sale for quite cheap.
After this purchase I realized how much my mobo is probably hindering the performance of my PC. The most demanding tasks I use it for is probably recreational gaming (will most likely never use 2 monitors).
Now I want to purchase a new mobo but am not sure what would be best to do.
I could:
A – purchase a new motherboard right now (price range below 100USD)
B – wait and purchase a new motherboard and CPU (price range below 200USD)
Mobo recommendations would be helpful as well.
Specs. Below---------------------------------------------------------------
MOBO: mATX M2N78-LA (Violet6) (crap HP mobo that came with my unfortunate purchase of a “HP PAVILION P6310Y DESKTOP”)
CPU: Athlon II X4 630(2.8GHz)
PSU: corsair enthusiast series tx650
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD6870 1G DDR5 PCIE
RAM: 6GB DDR3 (some cheap HP provided memory)
HDD: 1TB HDD Western Digital 5200k (also came in the HP Desktop)
SSD: 128g OCZ vertex4
Case: Corsair Carbide 400R
Thus, slowly but surely I have been replacing components as money permits.
I just purchased an SSD (the OCZ) from newegg on sale for quite cheap.
After this purchase I realized how much my mobo is probably hindering the performance of my PC. The most demanding tasks I use it for is probably recreational gaming (will most likely never use 2 monitors).
Now I want to purchase a new mobo but am not sure what would be best to do.
I could:
A – purchase a new motherboard right now (price range below 100USD)
B – wait and purchase a new motherboard and CPU (price range below 200USD)
Mobo recommendations would be helpful as well.
Specs. Below---------------------------------------------------------------
MOBO: mATX M2N78-LA (Violet6) (crap HP mobo that came with my unfortunate purchase of a “HP PAVILION P6310Y DESKTOP”)
CPU: Athlon II X4 630(2.8GHz)
PSU: corsair enthusiast series tx650
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD6870 1G DDR5 PCIE
RAM: 6GB DDR3 (some cheap HP provided memory)
HDD: 1TB HDD Western Digital 5200k (also came in the HP Desktop)
SSD: 128g OCZ vertex4
Case: Corsair Carbide 400R