It never used to be this hard to upgrade but then again I never had to just replace a motherboard and CPU before. And that’s where the problems merely begin.
Form factor (ATX), Socket type (though the CPU and m/b are both being replaced so it doesn’t matter), but then I have to make sure the components I have will fit: memory is the right type (speed); IDE connection for a floppy; the right power supply (both ample wattage AND, what I didn’t realize, the 20-pin connection has since been replaced by a 24-pin on the newer boards); the video card, and a few other things. This all means I’m reading pages and pages of specs. And, getting halfway down before I realize something or the other means it’s not going to work.
It’s been frustrating and that’s why I spend so much time on it and then drop it in aggravation, going through all the possibilities of just motherboard and processor vs. barebones vs. new pc. If I need too many items that can’t integrate my perfectly good parts, then a new system may be the most cost efficient and give the least amount of trouble with compatibility in building.
Just about ready to shelve the research yet again but the laptop screen has been going black again.
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How frustrating. I am what my son-in-law calls a modder. It never stops.
I love it, but even in the year or two since I’ve built a pc things seem to have changed so much. Now it looks like the memory may not do and that’s adding to the parts list.