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Upgrade desktop for windows 11 or replace completely?

  • 29-03-2025 12:40PM
    #1
    landcrzr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭


    Folks,

    Current setup for home use below. Looking to either replace or upgrade for W11. What are your thoughts? I was thinking about replacing the main board, CPU and Ram only. Graphics card, case, power supply, storage etc all fine.


    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
    Intel Core i5 @ 3.30GHz
    RAM 16.0GB
    Motherboard; Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z97P-D3 (SOCKET 0)
    Graphics; 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (Gigabyte)

    Storage; 232GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB (SSD) + 931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-08M2NA0 (SATA)
    Optical Drives; TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224DB
    Audio; NVIDIA High Definition Audio



Comments

  • #2
    Coyler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Coyler


    You can bypass the compatibility checks now by just doing a clean install or prepping the install to ingore them from an upgrade. After that you have to upgrade the major version changes manually which is fairly straight forward. Ran a old system like that for a while with no issues beyond the manual update.

    If that all sound like a pain in the behind then what is your budget? What are you thinking medium term with this.



  • #3
    landcrzr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭landcrzr


    Looking to get another few years out of it really. Case, power supply, storage and video card all perfectly fine for my needs. Would spend up to €500 on replacement parts or a bit over €1000 if I needed a new setup.



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