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Swaping motherboard and CPU
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Just wondering if i can upgrade my motherboard and cpu and still use my current components such as RAM, HDD, GPU, PSU and everything?
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yes as long as your new mobo will have a compatible pci slot and supports your motherboard frequency, all the other parts should be compatible unless they are very old
put in your specs and I'll reply
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Dutes wrote yes as long as your new mobo will have a compatible pci slot and supports your motherboard frequency, all the other parts should be compatible unless they are very old
put in your specs and I'll reply
CPU-Intel Core i5 2400 @ 3.10GHz
MB-foxconn h67m
RAM-8GB
GPU-Nvidia GeForce GT 430(should be upgrading soon)
PSU-400W Novatech(Ordered a 600W corsair)
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I'd suggest keeping the CPU, board, and RAM you have. They're still relatively current.
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r00t wrote I'd suggest keeping the CPU, board, and RAM you have. They're still relatively current.
Definitely keeping RAM only upgraded that last month but with the CPU and board it really depends on if a new graphics card will run games better as I keep finding myself having to put all games on lowest quality settings and we all know that no fun.
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That's because of the card, not the CPU or board. The past two generations of Intel CPUs have been relatively minor performance increments since the big leap forward with Sandy Bridge.
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