I have (had) a GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R (LGA 1366) motherboard that finally bit the dust over the weekend. It's acted up before, not wanting to reboot from time to time, but after a neighborhood power failure, it's not coming back to life. The thing came out in 2009 so it doesn't really owe me anything, and while the box boasted of 50,000 hour capacitors, I seem to have got an estimated 87,ooo hours out of it.
I don't play any super bleeding edge games anymore, with my "newest, most graphic intensive" one being OW, which ran fine with the system I had. I still hang out playing TF2 most of the time and don't think I'll ever need much more of a computer than the one I had. The i7 920 was just fine for my purposes.
The problem is that you can't buy a "new" LGA 1366 motherboard anymore, at least not that I can find. I can buy a used one (no idea how many hours on it) for ~$125±10 or I can go the new route and spend several hundred dollars on a new CPU and motherboard. I don't even know if I would need new ram or not...
What would be the best options for something comparable to what I had? I picked out an i7 9700 and a
GIGABYTE Z390 UD but I don't know if this is overkill or not. It's about $500 for the two, but if I didn't have to spend that much, it'd be great...
I don't play any super bleeding edge games anymore, with my "newest, most graphic intensive" one being OW, which ran fine with the system I had. I still hang out playing TF2 most of the time and don't think I'll ever need much more of a computer than the one I had. The i7 920 was just fine for my purposes.
The problem is that you can't buy a "new" LGA 1366 motherboard anymore, at least not that I can find. I can buy a used one (no idea how many hours on it) for ~$125±10 or I can go the new route and spend several hundred dollars on a new CPU and motherboard. I don't even know if I would need new ram or not...
What would be the best options for something comparable to what I had? I picked out an i7 9700 and a
GIGABYTE Z390 UD but I don't know if this is overkill or not. It's about $500 for the two, but if I didn't have to spend that much, it'd be great...