Replacing Motherboard.

[JacobKS]

I have an old PC with a10 5800k and 8gb ram and I bought a GTX 1050 Ti. Suddenly my Motherboard broke which I believe this one https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-F2A88XM-HD3-rev-30-31#ov.

I'm just wondering since my setup is kinda old is too hard to find brand new one with the same Motherboard so I found this one as a replacement with my mobo https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-F2A68HM-S1-rev-10#ov.
 

My setup is okay for low settings with 720p reso my only question is if you will look on both mobo my old one uses 8pin cpu and the new want I want to replace has 4 pins, would that affect my gaming performance? Since its only have 4 pins now not 8 pins?

Thank you - Jacob

[TTesla]

You will almost certainly not see any performance difference if you are running stock CPU speeds (i.e. not overclocked).

 

If you are overclocked:

-It appears the VRM is the same (just from picture comparison, could not find phase specs on site), which means it will have similar performance / hold similar overclocks.

-If the VRM is not the same: the new board could have an inferior setup, and thus won't overclock and hold stability as well.

 

To address the issue of 8 pin vs 4 pin, if the VRM is the same, it might just be that the rest of the mobo does not need as much additional power and thus the newer (less featured) board doesn't need 8 pin, or it could be that it has a weaker VRM and thus doesn't use as much power.

[JacobKS]

7 minutes ago, TeenTesla said:

You will almost certainly not see any performance difference if you are running stock CPU speeds (i.e. not overclocked).

 

If you are overclocked:

-It appears the VRM is the same (just from picture comparison, could not find phase specs on site), which means it will have similar performance / hold similar overclocks.

-If the VRM is not the same: the new board could have an inferior setup, and thus won't overclock and hold stability as well.

 

To address the issue of 8 pin vs 4 pin, if the VRM is the same, it might just be that the rest of the mobo does not need as much additional power and thus the newer (less featured) board doesn't need 8 pin, or it could be that it has a weaker VRM and thus doesn't use as much power.

Thank you so much I really do appreciate it.

Any other response will be much appreciated.

Signing off....