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A Guide To Selecting The Right Motherboard For Your PC Build

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Choosing the right motherboard for your PC build can be quite confusing at first.

How do you know which motherboard is compatible with the rest of your PC build’s components?

What should you look for in a motherboard?

What are the most important parts of a motherboard for your specific rig?

From all of the different slots on a board, the difference between form factors, ensuring compatibility with your CPU choice, to the most important types of expansion for future upgrades – this article aims to help you understand how to choose the right motherboard for your PC build and to guide you through understanding what to look for when choosing a compatible board for your rig.

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How To Optimally Upgrade From A GTX 1070

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Upgrading from the GTX 1070? This post will show you how to upgrade from the GTX 1070 to an optimal GPU for higher FPS rates and future-proof performance.

You can’t just buy any new GPU on the market today, throw it into your PC build and be good to go. You also need to ensure that it makes sense to upgrade based on your monitor’s refresh rate, to ensure that you aren’t shelling out cash for a subpar level of performance boost and that your PC can provide enough power for an upgrade.

In this post, we’ll go over everything you need to know before venturing into the multiple GPU choices that you could upgrade to and help you understand the most optimal upgrade options on the market.

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How To Upgrade From An Intel i3 or i5 CPU to i7 or i9: Ensuring Compatibility When Upgrading

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Looking to upgrade from an Intel Core i3 or i5 CPU to a more powerful i7 or even i9 CPU? This post will show you how to ensure compatibility for any upgrade!

It’s not as simple as throwing in a new i7 or i9 CPU in place of your current CPU and calling it a day… You have to ensure that whichever CPU you are looking to upgrade towards is compatible with your current PC build which is exactly what this post is about – ensuring compatibility and upgrading the right way!

Odds are, if you’re looking to upgrade, then your CPU is from an older generation… If that’s the case, then there are more steps involved in upgrading to an i7 or i9 when you’re upgrading to a newer generation processor.

By following everything in this post, you should be able to ensure compatibility with the right parts and have a CPU upgrade that’s worthy of your PC rig.

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How To Upgrade From A GTX 1060 The Right Way

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Looking to upgrade from the GTX 1060? This post will show you how to upgrade from the GTX 1060 for higher frame rates and ray-tracing support with an RTX GPU.

There’s more to upgrading your GPU than simply replacing the card with a shinier, newer GPU… You need to ensure that your PC has enough power, that you’re not overspending for something sub-optimal, and that you understand the type of performance difference that you’ll be having with a GPU upgrade.

That’s exactly what I would like to share with this post! We’ll go over the best upgrades for the GTX 1060, what kind of performance you should expect, and how to tell if it’s actually time to upgrade your GPU.

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