- Oct 10, 2002
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Back in the day I loved AMD and now not so much I have an AM3 mobo and CPU and DDR3 RAM but the CPU light on my mobo is red indicating the CPU is not working. I am getting power but no video and no beeps.
I would like to upgrade to Intel but have not kept up with their technology. I want to spend $400 or less (ideally) and I will read up on the sticky threads recommending the 15 4690K. But can you guys help me with basic knowledge of what family this is, haswell, what is the newest family and same for motherboards. I would love to get the latest and greatest socket so I can upgrade in the future. Also I thought Intel was on DDR4 but the sticky is saying to get DDR3, so is the 4690K with DDR3 already a dead end street?
So I need CPU, mobo and RAM recommendations and other recommendations for which CPU/mobo family to buy.
Again please don't flame me as this just happened so I will start reading up on intel but would like your input as well.
I would like to upgrade to Intel but have not kept up with their technology. I want to spend $400 or less (ideally) and I will read up on the sticky threads recommending the 15 4690K. But can you guys help me with basic knowledge of what family this is, haswell, what is the newest family and same for motherboards. I would love to get the latest and greatest socket so I can upgrade in the future. Also I thought Intel was on DDR4 but the sticky is saying to get DDR3, so is the 4690K with DDR3 already a dead end street?
So I need CPU, mobo and RAM recommendations and other recommendations for which CPU/mobo family to buy.
Again please don't flame me as this just happened so I will start reading up on intel but would like your input as well.