02-14-2015, 12:47 AM
Blackberry Bun Wrote:Both. The 1155 socket is only usable on Sandy Bridge And Ivy Bridge CPUs. The CPU you tried to install, 4770, is Haswell and uses socket 1150. It has already been declared obsolete by Intel and has been replaced with Broadwell, which is also incompatible because it's also socket 1150. Also, the H77 is obsolete and replaced by the H97 (H97 is Socket 1150 and compatible with the CPU you're trying to install). And according to information I found, Socket 1150 will be declared obsolete in a few months and replaced with socket 1151. Broadwell will also be declared obsolete and be replaced with Skylake, and the H97 will be declared obsolete and replaced by H170.RAMChYLD Wrote:your old motherboard is Socket 1155Were you referring to the P8H77-M or B75M-A? Or both?
Intel backwards compatibility window for each ecosystem is only 2 years. The 2 years for Well ecosystem is already almost up. Might was well wait a few more months for the Lake ecosystem to launch.
Although since the PC would be used only for games, I suggest getting Z170 motherboard instead. The Z series is for gamers and support things like multi-video-card Crossfire/SLI, as well as crazy large amounts of RAM and combining multiple hard disks to increase speed and size. H series is for mainstream and usually doesn't support those features.
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