Need an advice to upgrade

[Redhot]

Hi all

I got Maximum IX Extreme, i7-7700 and EVGA GTX 1080Ti

I want to upgrade the 3 of them… Or At least 2 of them.

Thinking of Maximus Hero or Strix… with i9-14900k & GTX 4060 / GTX 4070

Will it work?

I play diff kind of games, Battlefield, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Rainbow Six, Outlast, etc..

Want your opinions, I personally prefer Asus motherboard. Not a fan of AMD. But go ahead and advise. Idk if I need that kind of GPU, so. I’m no good when it comes to technical stuff.

Much much appreciated.

[Bruce]

You don’t mention your RAM, so make sure it’s compatible with any new motherboard.
Do you have a budget?
Graphics cards are one of those ‘get out your cheque book’ components - almost no limit to what you can spend!
So make sure the new card meets any recommended requirements for the game you play.

I’m also not a fan of AMD - for no other reason than Intel was first, and the initial AMD’s were buggy - nothing more than that!
Intel is what I know.

As to ASUS, again it’s purely personal, but I’m more a Gigabyte fan, and if I’d have to avoid any it would be ASUS.
I’m sure there are people who avoid Gigabyte. And that’s the thing, it can sometimes come down to trivial, personal, bias things like that.

For me, maybe 15 years ago, I had to return a Gigabyte mobo (yes, they can fail as well ) and noticed the racks of returned mobos on the stores shelves, they were almost all ASUS, which really hit home with me. Seriously, this rack had about 5 or 6 shelves, with maybe 10-15 boxes of mobos on each shelve, and the vast majority were ASUS. But hey, that was then, I’m sure the boards now aren’t even comparable, quality wise.

As long as all the parts are compatible, I see no problem.

[phillpower2]

I got Maximum IX Extreme, i7-7700 and EVGA GTX 1080Ti

I want to upgrade the 3 of them… Or At least 2 of them.

The GPU you could keep but take a performance hit but realistically you are looking at new build, if you have decent SSDs you would able to keep them but any boot drive would need to be formatted and Windows and the system drivers for the new MB then installed, you will also need to purchase a new Windows product key so it would be wise to purchase Windows 11 from the outset.

[phillpower2]

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