If you can afford it, you want to select the CPUs from the latest generation—they tend to be refreshed on a cycle slightly less than once a year. Core i7 and i9 are higher-end for performance enthusiasts or workstation machines, while Core i3, Pentium, and Celeron chips are for budget builds.
On the AMD side, the new Ryzen series offers a surprising range of performance and prices. The Ryzen 3 and Ryzen 5 families are good middle-of-the-road picks, some of which offer integrated Radeon graphics for mid-range gaming capabilities without a separate graphics card. Ryzen 7 and the top-tier Ryzen Threadripper series are for performance junkies.
So, if your computer is only a few years old, you might be able to upgrade to a more powerful CPU that uses the same socket. The first compatibility check for the CPU socket is the brand. Intel is the clear market leader, but AMD tends to offer similar performance at slightly lower price levels. The size of the motherboard depends mostly upon your case. Simple, right? No matter what size your case is, you can probably find a motherboard that fits its dimensions and your needs.
Modern cases include plenty of mounting spots for motherboards that are smaller than their maximum size. Motherboards also have maximum RAM capacities and speeds. So a full-sized motherboard with four slots and a 32GB maximum capacity can accept 8GB of RAM per slot, but a smaller motherboard with only two slots and the same maximum will need 16GB of RAM in each slot to reach it. Of course, you can go for lower RAM capacities to save some money and you might not need as much as you think you do.
This is for your graphics card. The different multi-card systems SLI and Crossfire also require specific support for their standards from the motherboard manufacturer.
Other expansion slots can be used for more general applications, like Wi-Fi cards, sound cards, extra USB slots, and so on. What you need depends on what your current system uses, and what you want. To cover yourself at a minimum, make sure that any hardware installed on your current system has a place to go on your new motherboard. If your old PC has a separate sound card and Wi-Fi card, but the new motherboard has those features built in, you might not need the extra slots for them.
The new M. Other motherboard hardware is dependent on either the components that you currently have, or the ones you want. Good question. There are two more variables to consider here: the main motherboard power cable and the CPU power cable.
Motherboard power cables come in 20 pin and 24 pin varieties. Most modern power supplies have a cable that terminates in a 20 pin connector, but features an additional 4 pin connector to accommodate the 24 pin slots. Depending on the design of your CPU and its power requirements, these can come in 4 pin and 8 pin designs.
Some high-performance sockets need separate 8 pin and 4 pin cables for a total of Follow the steps below. If your home is particularly static-prone, you might want to use an anti-static bracelet. A cup or bowl is also handy for holding loose screws. First, unplug all the power and data cables from your PC and move it to your workspace.
Remove the screws holding the left-side access panel from the case—these are on the back of the machine, screwed into the edge. You can then slide the access panel off and set it aside. If your case is a small or unusual design, consult the manual for precise instructions. Set the PC on its side, with the motherboard facing up. You should be able to look down at the motherboard with all its various ports and connections.
The CPU cooler is the large gadget with a big piece of metal the heat sink and one or more fans attached to it. For our Intel stock cooler, this is relatively simple: we just turn the thumbscrews at all four corners, and then lift it off. More complex water-cooled systems might also require advanced techniques. Before you lift the cooler away, check the power cable attached to the fan.
Gently pull it out, and you can then remove the entire cooler. The gelatinous stuff on top of it is the thermal paste that allows heat to efficiently transfer to the cooler. On our Intel LGA socket, we release the lever and lift the plate. At this point the only thing holding the CPU in is gravity. Carefully grasp it with your finger and lift it out. Set it aside. Now take a look at the CPU socket on the motherboard. You may need to install a backplate on the opposite side of the motherboard.
Now remove the new CPU from its packaging. Insert it into the open CPU socket on the motherboard. It should slide or sit in place easily, without you putting any pressure on it. Pull it out and try again. If not, then squeeze about a pea-sized drop of thermal paste onto the center of the CPU from the paste tube.
It spreads out evenly when you lock the cooler into place. That's because each installation of Windows is unique to the computer it's being installed on and contains specific drivers and hardware settings for that computer. If you change the motherboard, then all of those settings are no longer valid. There are programs such as Acronis True Image which has "Acronis Universal Restore", which allows you to transfer your operating system onto a new machine with dissimilar hardware, but the process is somewhat complicated and not guaranteed to work.
You will then need to reinstall all your programs on the new system. If you need help with this , I can assist using remote desktop support - described next. Based on my experience, migrating Windows from an old machine to a new machine takes many hours to complete, and can sometimes take a few days.
If you need help migrating your existing system to another, or need help reinstalling Windows, I would be more than happy to assist you using my remote desktop support service. Simply send me an email briefly describing your message and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
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For technical support inquiries, Dennis can be reached via Live chat online this site using the Zopim Chat service currently located at the bottom left of the screen ; optionally, you can contact Dennis through the website contact form. As the possessor of several full retail Windows 7 Professional licenses, both 32 and 64 bit, who absolutely CANNOT abide Windows 10, how can I "transfer the license to a new machine or motherboard"?
After a new install will the "activation" still be available? As far as I know the same is true for Windows 7 or 8. If you have an old system and are upgrading the motherboard for example , you may need to call Microsoft to activate over the phone in order to cancel the old system.
After I build the ik system, I will try what alexoiu suggested too. It looks like I am at the end of my time with Microsoft so a second system even just sitting waiting to be a backup will not hurt. If you want to try that with an ik, that is an Intel seventh 7th -generation processor.
I looked and it uses the iK CPU I gave up trying to keep track of generations, possibly dumb but for me it just got two confusing, Haswell, Broadwell, Katy Lake, Does it use multiple generations of CPU? I thought the generations starting somewhere around the Pentium II only supported specific CPUs from specific generations.
I know the last computer that I built that could use 2 generations supported the Pentium and Pentium Pro. Now it is getting really hard to go more than one or two generations and still be able to even re-use memory.
So what i7 is the 6th generation. They are either ones I cannot find, are too expensive, or just do not quite do what I want to do. And I do like to keep my MASM skills for going completely rusty and the work keeps my mind active must now remember the great enemy is dementia. You must log in or register to reply here. Motherboards 1 Aug 13, Similar threads Question Motherboard problem? Question NVMe M. Post thread. Question How much space does motherboard takes? Question Lets have a bit of fun Windows Question Motherboard died because of a surge through DVI??
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