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Upgrading 10 year old HTPC

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Salil

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Hello,
I was looking at upgrading a10 year old HTPC with a new i5 8600k and new motherboard. It already has a Nvidia 1050Ti GTX, and with a 750W PSU and 4GB DDR2 I was wondering if that will become a bottleneck. What I want is to be able to wake up the PC via wifi wake on lan. There is no way I can get an ethernet cable to the HTPC and I don't want the system to be up all the time wasting power. Which motherboard will work best? I usually play turn based strategy games with not very heavy loads but would preferably like the system to be VR ready
 
You can't plug DDR2 into DDR4 slots, you need new RAM. Depending on the age of the power supply, it may not be "Haswell Ready" either. A smaller power supply will waste less power, you can probably run it comfortably on a 250w-300w unit.
 
What you are doing is Not Upgrade old computer. You are building New computer in an Old case.

As for wake on WIFI.

Get an inexpensive Wireless Router. Configure it as a Client Bridge connecting to your main Wireless.

Example -
https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Wire...=1519840328&sr=1-57&keywords=AP/Client/Bridge

Then Connect it via short CAT 6 cable to the onboard NIC.

It will receive signal from your main Wireless Router but the computer would se it as a Wired connection.


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