Hardware & Technical Motherboard help please.

FuzzySpider

FuzzySpider
My old motherboard recently carked it. It was a Gigabyte GA - X79 - UD3. I think the CPU might have been ok though. I've got my eyes on a replacement. Something along the lines of this.

Question is this, because I have not the foggiest about what I am doing here. The socket on both mobos appears to be a LGA 2011, should the CPU be tranferable?
 

Porina

Porina
Not compatible. There's socket 2011, which used X79 chipset on the consumer side. Now there is 2011-3 which uses X99 on consumer side. The two are not cross compatible with each other. There are also server equivalents of each. Be warned that original 2011 motherboards are near impossible to find at a sensible price now, as there was a flood in the market of cheap compatible Xeons earlier this year driving up motherboard pricing.

Depending on rest of the kit, might be better to bite the bullet and replace mobo/CPU/ram in one hit. Rest can likely be recycled although expect Windows to complain about activation. Current generation uses DDR4 ram whereas the older ones use DDR3. You could look for some older generation kit which can still be bought new using DDR3 but in my opinion not worth doing so unless you have a lot of ram to reuse.
 

Porina

Porina
That bundle seems ok. You're not going to be lacking in performance as it is the highest end consumer CPU without going the route of X99 chipset mobo and costs escalate. I don't recognise the cooler, but the mobo + CPU would be close to the asking price anyway. Overclock is pretty easy on those and more a balance of cooling and performance, so don't pay extra for an overclock which doesn't seem to be the case here. On that note, if you like the look of another mobo more go for it. You will also need new ram as the ones from old system wont be compatible. Most people seem to be going for 16GB in builds these days as it doesn't cost much more than 8GB.

Given the old system was X79 it was probably high-end for its time so you should be able to reuse the rest of the components. As far as Windows is concerned this will look like a new system. I've not tried it, but you may need a manual reactivation with MS if you have retail Windows, and they may not transfer if it was OEM licence. So you may or may not need a fresh copy.

If you give details of the rest of the system we can double check if there is anything obvious.
 

FuzzySpider

FuzzySpider
I've got a 980 ti GPU and a modular 650W psu with many cables. I'll grab 8GB of RAM because it ain't my main gaming comp after all.

I think it's retail windows, it was a home build PC with a regular old CD.
 
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