Motherboard to replace Intel Z68 DDR3

cherrytaz

Hi there

My current Z68 motherboard has packed in and I'm looking to replace it to be compatible with the following components:

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB PCI-Express HDMI

Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) HyperX DDR3 1600MHz DIMM 240-pin CL9 XMP

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz S1155 6MB

Carbide Series 300R PC tower

The PC was previously built for me so I would really welcome any suggestions please, just want to ensure that my existing components work ok

Cheers

Digital Solitude

Are you sure its the motherboard?

cherrytaz

I'm actually not 100% sure but it won't boot by the BIOS screen, it just goes blue as per the image below. I've swapped the two RAM sticks around and tried them separately and no luck

Digital Solitude

That does look motherboardish. And it won't boot into the boot manager or BIOS or anything?

cherrytaz

No keyboard won't even come alive so just looking for suggestions for new motherboard unfortunately

Digital Solitude

Dabs is as handy as anywhere else I'd say. Anything here should be fine

Get a Z series if you overclock
http://www.dabs.ie/category/components-and-storage,motherboards-and-processors,motherboards/11143-469740000

cherrytaz

Cheers for that. Most of those seem out of stock

How would this do?

http://www.dabs.ie/products/gigabyte-h61m-s2pv-s1155-intel-h61-ddr3-atx-7Y3S.html?refs=469740000&src=3

cherrytaz

Or perhaps this

http://www.pixmania.ie/motherboard/asus-h61m-k-socket-1155-chipset-intel-h61-micro-atx-motherboard/21966694-a.html

Digital Solitude

Yeah, probably not worth it in long run, one of the ASRocks here may be better, second and third options

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=node%3D430512031&field-keywords=Z68&rh=n%3A340831031%2Cn%3A428655031%2Cn%3A430512031%2Ck%3AZ68

cherrytaz

Is there any way of telling if this is the motherboard or CPU? Both were purchased in February 2011