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Question

Intel® Desktop Board DG33BU and upgrading to a modern OS

Aug 18, 2016 7:43PM PDT

Hello,

I recently was lucky enough to get a spare computer gifted to me by some individuals at my church, while its old the parts from it alone will help me save a bit of money on making a new PC. however, after salvaging what I could and replacing most of what was needed I found that I've overlooked something crucial.

currently, the motherboard that I am using for my custom PC is an Intel DG33BU Desktop Board, what I'm discovering now, however, is that intel did not continue to support the board for newer OS. ideally, I would lick to have to replace it, but using Windows 7 (its highest compatible os) will definitely interfere with the type of programmes I plan to use with this device.

So then where do I stand? is there any visible way to download stronger OS to my motherboard, whether it be updating BIOS or not downloading certain portions of the OS at this point I'm willing to do anything to resolve this problem.

Any suggestions?

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Programs
Aug 18, 2016 8:20PM PDT

What programs do you plan to run that w7 can't handle?

Hope it's nothing too demanding considering the cpu and ram support for that mobo.

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Worried
Aug 18, 2016 8:49PM PDT

I'm worried perhaps losing access to some adobe software, as well as any number of steam games, to be honest I'm not 100% sure on what ill be unable to run using windows 7. I just dont want to commit to a new pc only to find that there's a bunch of software that im unable to use with it.

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Linux, various OS
Aug 18, 2016 10:42PM PDT

Steam runs on many Linux OS. Adobe covers a lot, but some aspects of such software are available in other free Linux programs. For instance creating PDF files isn't just Adobe anymore, that capability is in Linux too. Go to youtube and run search on Linux, specifically Ubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Mint, Zorin, and if you google "linux, youtube" you will find 34 million results.

I personally use Mint 17 MATE, but also like Ubuntu MATE and Kubuntu versions. People more windows oriented often prefer Zorin.

This is 4 years ago and it keeps getting better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G7TJyZPKPo

https://www.youtube.com/user/LinuxSpatry/videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJd9j-Wa_3I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eLHd2x_d1Q

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Thanks for the suggestion
Aug 18, 2016 10:55PM PDT

thanks for the suggestion James, ill definitely could consider Linex as an option. do they however have a work around considering their position on steam, compatibility seems to be a real issue with them on there.

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a google is probably best approach
Aug 18, 2016 11:35PM PDT
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Best you can do
Aug 18, 2016 11:25PM PDT

Start checking out OS reqs for the software you want to run.

If you go above w7 your not going to have driver support from intel.

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Windows 10 Works Fine on Intel DG33
Aug 20, 2016 7:32PM PDT

My GF's PC which i built for her has the almost identical motherboard - Intel DG33FB and it's running Windows 10 perfectly OK. The FB version is a full size board with three PCI-e X1 slots where yours has one PCI-e X1 slot. Otherwise, the two boards have exactly the same specs for chipset, cpu, memory, graphics, etc. My GF was running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit with 2 x 2GB of DDR2-800 RAM. About 6 months ago she did the Windows 10 free upgrade which went smoothly. As i recall there was one old game that no longer worked but everything else has been OK. Windows 10 seems to run a bit snappier, but this could be due to cleaning up/tuning up her Win 7 setup before the upgrade. (Mainly, we went through all the stuff she had loading at Startup and changed a handful of those to NOT load at Startup.) I should point out that she has a modest discrete graphics card installed (Radeon HD4550 i think) which allows her to play more modern games and 1080p HD video compared to the integrated Intel graphics chip. Windows 10 seemed to find and install all necessary drivers for her hardware and all her programs including Office 2010.
Hope this information helps!