Motherboard and GPU recommendations

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Leedle Lee

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Mostly just asking for my sanity's sake, as I prefer getting a response from someone rather than a bit of text cooked up a year ago. And maybe learn a thing or two as well.

I was given this desktop computer by a friend when he upgraded, and I can see why.

The motherboard installed is a z68x-ud3h-b3, which when I looked it up online looked quite respectable, turns out to be incredibly mild. And I think it's integrated so any possibilities for modifying it are out the window.

So, what I'm asking for are any good recommendations for a motherboard and video card (I don't care if the motherboard has integrated sound or whatever else) that can run older games such as TF2 and L4D2 on high. Newer, higher end games running on medium would be fine as well.

Thanks for reading. The frustration came to a peak today when I tried out Receiver (badly optimized game, but still) and it crawled at a garbage 10 FPS.
 
If you are only running on integrated video, why not just get a video card and put in it?
 
All you need is a video card. Your motherboard has integrated video, which is crap for playing any games. What's your budget and what kind of power supply do you have in your system. Also what are the rest of your specs.
 
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Like I said before, I'm not too hardware savvy, but is that not a ****ton of RAM? I mean, the case he got was one of those big metal Cooler Masters, so I guess he felt the need to fill it up.

Power supply is a 950W Silencer Mk.II.

Budget isn't really an issue, I'm willing to wait a bit to save up for something quality. As I stated in my OP, I'm looking for something capable of running older Source games on high, namely TF2, while also being able to run something newer like BeamNG.drive smoothly enough.

Thank you for your time and help.
 
Ur other specs are amazing, but just install a midrange gaming card like the gtx 770 or 760, or the r9 270, and u should be good to go
 
Thank you all for your help. Obviously I'm new to the world of modifying computers (though I've used them forever), but I like learning about all these different parts. The GTX 770 seems ideal. The next challenge will be learning how to install it, which probably won't be difficult, but I don't want to bork anything up. Do most modern computer video cards all hook up generally the same?
 
Leedle Lee said:
Thank you all for your help. Obviously I'm new to the world of modifying computers (though I've used them forever), but I like learning about all these different parts. The GTX 770 seems ideal. The next challenge will be learning how to install it, which probably won't be difficult, but I don't want to bork anything up. Do most modern computer video cards all hook up generally the same?
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Generally yes. All new high end video cards use the same PCI-E x16 expansion slot, and depending on how much power the requires, it needs 1 or 2 PCI-E power cables to provide the extra juice.
 
Because the GTX 770 runs on PCI Express and all motherboards since about 2005 have had at least one PCI Express slot on them.

And 950W is more than enough for a GTX 770. Make sure you have the appropriate 1x8-pin and 1x6-pin power connectors on that PSU to plug into the card though. The cards usually come with adapters if you don't.
 
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