Happy New Year Hexus Users
I hoping you can help me upgrade my motherboard and CPU to newer ones
Last year I had the misfortune of my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4 iP55 Socket 1156 8 channel audio mATX Motherboard) breaking on me after around 10 years which caused random freezing at first which then progressed to full on black screen power losses. I bought a cheap similar Gigabyte mobo on Ebay to test and confirm it was the motherboard (GIGABYTE GA-P55M-UD2 DDR3 REV 1.1 LGA1156). That has been ok for a couple of months but I think now it's time to upgrade to something that will last me several years and a motherboard that will actually detect all my RAM instead of only half
I've been out of the PC world for a while so please don't get too technical. I built this current system myself but most parts are around 10 years old now. It's good for what I use it for nowadays so will probably just upgrade the motherboard and CPU first and look into SSDs in the future, then maybe other components later on
What motherboard and CPU would you guys recommend? One that will work with my other components
Would be good to get some price ideas and go from there. Obviously it might not be worth spending too much as my other components are top of the range compared to the stuff around nowadays. Would under £500 be realistic?
One thing that might be worth noting is that my monitor doesn't have a HDMI port
Ask me for any more info
Thanks for the help
My system:
- (Broken) Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4 iP55 Socket 1156 8 channel audio mATX Motherboard
- (Cheap Ebay motherboard) - GIGABYTE GA-P55M-UD2 DDR3 REV 1.1 LGA1156
- Intel Core i5 750 2.66GHz Socket LGA1156 8MB L3 Cache Processor
- EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 FTW Signature2 3GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
- Corsair Vengeance LP Performance Memory modules 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 2133MHz CL9 Blue
- OCZ Stealth XStream 600W PSU - SLI Ready ATX2.2 12cm Fan
- Antec 300 case (Mid tower, standard ATX)
- Windows 10 64-bit Home Premium
- 1x Western Digital Blue 1TB HDD
- 2x Western Digital Blue 500GB HDDs