I got a little carried away whilst building my 2012 Z77 LGA1155 PC and had an itch to build a Z97-based LGA1150 system with a target year of 2014. After researching what motherboard to get, I hit on the idea of building a PC with as many MSI-branded components as possible…. Continue reading
I have long had a soft spot for the LGA775 architecture, and one of my retro PCs is an ASUS P5W motherboard, a Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU with a stock cooler, 4GB of Kingston HyperX PC2-8500, and an nVidia Quadro 4000 2GB GPU. A motley build, for sure. However,… Continue reading
As part of my little business buying and selling old graphics cards, I have been using a Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H motherboard as my testbed, on an open case, which has been very dependable. The Z77 chipset (LGA1155) is ideal for what I do as it was the last chipset to support… Continue reading
Earlier in the year my main PC failed. The board was dead and it wasn’t the PSU as I have a PSU tester and it tested out fine. The PC was long overdue an upgrade, so I went ahead with that. More on that in another post. The system was… Continue reading