Looking to upgrade my pc a bit, need advice

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  • MrFantastic410
    PCHF Member
    • Dec 2019
    • 4

    #1

    Looking to upgrade my pc a bit, need advice

    My specs:

    Intel(R) Core™ i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz
    AMD Radeon HD 7850 2gb
    Kingstone ddr3 1333mhz ram 2gb
    600W power supply
    Windows 10

    Heres the deal, 2gb of my ram just died (had 4gb) so im down to 2gb now, things rly going slow… so decided to do a small upgrade, since my pc sucks and is old anyway, even with 4gb rams.
    I ordered 2x 4gb ram so thats settled.
    Now I just don’t know what to upgrade my cpu or gpu, in terms of performance for gaming.
    I kind of think that my gpu is a bit more “old” and bad, my cpu is also but I think the gpu is a bit more needing of an upgrade.
    What would you say?

    I was looking for a few used graphic cards and I can get some rly cheap ones like Radeon RX 480 or 580 for a good price, and they seem to be much better than my current, I prefer the 480 one tho because of the lower watt consumption, my power supply is not that great.

    Any feedback, advice?
  • veeg
    PCHF Director
    • Jul 2016
    • 8978

    #2
    Hello

    How old is the pc?

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    • MrFantastic410
      PCHF Member
      • Dec 2019
      • 4

      #3
      Like 6 years

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      • Evan_Omo
        PCHF Member
        • Sep 2016
        • 1257

        #4
        Hi MrFantastic410, Welcome to PCHF!

        What motherboard does your computer have?

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        • MrFantastic410
          PCHF Member
          • Dec 2019
          • 4

          #5
          Originally posted by Evan Omo
          Hi MrFantastic410, Welcome to PCHF!

          What motherboard does your computer have?
          P7P55-M

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          • MrFantastic410
            PCHF Member
            • Dec 2019
            • 4

            #6
            Here on our website of selling used items ive found some graphic cards at a very good price that seem to be much better than my current Radeon HD 7850

            But I have no clue how each of these compares with each other, but they are similar prices:

            1.Radeon RX 470 Dual X 8gb
            2.GTX 1060 3gb Zotac
            3.Sapphire Nitro 480 8gb

            Its odd that GTX has so much less gb and yet seems to be in a similar class

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            • Evan_Omo
              PCHF Member
              • Sep 2016
              • 1257

              #7
              The Sapphire RX 480 is the fastest of the three video cards you picked so that would be a good option. Make sure you update your motherboards BIOS first as older boards may not support UEFI video cards out of the box so updating the motherboards BIOS is one of the things I would do before upgrading to a newer video card.

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              • phillpower2
                PCHF Administrator
                • Sep 2016
                • 15206

                #8
                Any update?

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                • phillpower2
                  PCHF Administrator
                  • Sep 2016
                  • 15206

                  #9
                  Thread closed due to lack of feedback from the OP.

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