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This is a legacy question because I am the legacy sort having older gear now failing. I am cautioned that motherboards of newer vintage may have compatibility problems with Windows 7 requiring driver updates and whatnot. I am not knowledgeable in all that. My newest board is old by current standards: MSI 760gm with AMD Phenom. Other builds on my small homenet are older than that.
I stick with Win 7 for rebuilding my homenet Worgroup when needed. Though I have tried Win10 it has more bloat than what I am using now (win7 is not free of a lot of unwanted 'services.') My tryout of Win10 was brief.
My first look to a moderate upgrade to AM4 is the AMD Athlon 3000G. I understand this to have onboard video-- no vidcard to buy. Budget is indeed extremely important since I should upgrade all three nodes of the home net.
But I'll settle for one new build now. That means I have to get CPU, MB and DDR4 memory. I run systems bench style-- no need for a case recommendation. My power supplies are 350 Seagate and at my level of computing, even with always on operations (I have one) there should be no need for changing those.
I stick with Win 7 for rebuilding my homenet Worgroup when needed. Though I have tried Win10 it has more bloat than what I am using now (win7 is not free of a lot of unwanted 'services.') My tryout of Win10 was brief.
My first look to a moderate upgrade to AM4 is the AMD Athlon 3000G. I understand this to have onboard video-- no vidcard to buy. Budget is indeed extremely important since I should upgrade all three nodes of the home net.
But I'll settle for one new build now. That means I have to get CPU, MB and DDR4 memory. I run systems bench style-- no need for a case recommendation. My power supplies are 350 Seagate and at my level of computing, even with always on operations (I have one) there should be no need for changing those.