Upgrading Motherbord

[djbozz]

I am going to upgrade my pc its a HP which have locked bios, my graphics card & proccessor are good enough for the games I play, my slow part is the mobo & ram, Im going to change to a DDR3 motherboard & ram any good suggestions on make & model, Ive got a water cooled cpu cooler & a 850w power to go in so far, thanks for any advice

[waspiflab]

First things first is your processor details, can't do much until then.Run dxdiag and it well tell you the details.
If your going for a DDR3 MB you may have to change all your hard drives, disk drives etc as you'll be wanting SATA connections. Give us all the deatails on every piece of kit you have in old pc and new pc parts you've already purchased

[djbozz]

Hi, My pc specs are in my signature but here a link for my pc when I bought it, http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docu ... 740154#N77,
The mobo ive been looking at is Gigabyte GA-P41T-D3 Motherboad Socket 775 P41 DDR3,
the cooler i got is XIGMATEK ACHILLES HDT-S1284C COOLER - Skt 775 1156 AM2
The power unit is Alphapower ATX-850L
& the ram is 2 X Kingston 2GB 1333MHz DDR3 CL9 RAM Memory KVR1333D3N9/2G
will this speed it up?

[Slotback]

I doubt there will be much of a difference, if any, with the memory. Since that DDR3 RAM is CL9 it might be slower, even. Not worth it buying a new motherboard for RAM that won't make a difference.


That CPU cooler is not a water-cooler, it is an air-cooler.

If you want to overclock to a program called setFSB....... Since you're already at 3.0ghz, I doubt you're going to get any big gains by getting a new motherboard since most Q6600's top out at between 3.2ghz and 3.6ghz. If setFSB doesn't work then you can try upgrading mobo although in my opinion since the gains will be non-existant, or fairly small if overclocking, it's not worth it.

Your current motherboard is microATX which means you probably can only upgrade to microATX motherboards.... look at getting a Gigabyte P45 although I'm not sure if they come in that form-factor.