Hi guys/gals
Recently purchased a desktop/mid tower and like a newbie (out of gaming for thirty years) when I purchased it, I allowed myself to be talked into buying a different spec tower than the one I had previously reviewed, due to a more powerful processor, GPU and thinking the young chap who were throwing all these new terms at me knew what he was talking about and therefore I purchased this more expensive "gaming PC".
Okay so my problem is this, it came with a ASUS H310 Prime motherboard, which isn't exactly designed for a gaming at all, more for mass produced OEM's for office's etc etc.
So with that in mind, I'm looking to upgrade the motherboard, my current hardware is an RTX2070 GPU and a I7 9700F processer and playing through a 4K 50 inch screen TV. The power unit is a Corsair VS 550 power supply. I am no guru but after reviewing a number of boards I have decided on an ASUS TUF Z390-Pro Gaming, based on its user friendliness, much lower price than say the ROG XL or Godlike etc and its general positive reviews. (unless someone tells me otherwise). So I have two questions..
a. I notice the power supply on the H310 is 24 pin and 4 pin, as where the Z390 is a 24 pin and 8 pin. Does this mean my current supply will not work/or will it work with just the 4 pin connector?
b. Will the 550 power supply be enough power to run the board, i.e in regards to future proofing, upon adding possibly a second GPU in a couple of years, or more RAM banks, etc etc.
Computers have changed since my day of 128K ram, floppy disk and tape recorders, so please be gentle.
Any and all advice is greatly appreciated in the aid of turning my tower into what it should have had in the first instance.
Best regards
Recently purchased a desktop/mid tower and like a newbie (out of gaming for thirty years) when I purchased it, I allowed myself to be talked into buying a different spec tower than the one I had previously reviewed, due to a more powerful processor, GPU and thinking the young chap who were throwing all these new terms at me knew what he was talking about and therefore I purchased this more expensive "gaming PC".
Okay so my problem is this, it came with a ASUS H310 Prime motherboard, which isn't exactly designed for a gaming at all, more for mass produced OEM's for office's etc etc.
So with that in mind, I'm looking to upgrade the motherboard, my current hardware is an RTX2070 GPU and a I7 9700F processer and playing through a 4K 50 inch screen TV. The power unit is a Corsair VS 550 power supply. I am no guru but after reviewing a number of boards I have decided on an ASUS TUF Z390-Pro Gaming, based on its user friendliness, much lower price than say the ROG XL or Godlike etc and its general positive reviews. (unless someone tells me otherwise). So I have two questions..
a. I notice the power supply on the H310 is 24 pin and 4 pin, as where the Z390 is a 24 pin and 8 pin. Does this mean my current supply will not work/or will it work with just the 4 pin connector?
b. Will the 550 power supply be enough power to run the board, i.e in regards to future proofing, upon adding possibly a second GPU in a couple of years, or more RAM banks, etc etc.
Computers have changed since my day of 128K ram, floppy disk and tape recorders, so please be gentle.
Any and all advice is greatly appreciated in the aid of turning my tower into what it should have had in the first instance.
Best regards