Trying to upgrade but it's not working help?

[Pyro]

Depending on what you plan on doing with the unit in the future, I would buy a quality unit from someone like Seasonic (my choice), corsair, EVGA, or someone else ranked high on this list.

If you plan on completely swapping your build up and putting a 40-series GPU in it, then it might be worth investing in a 1000w PSU, otherwise you could skate by nicely with a 650w and save the extra money.

This is an area where you really can’t do ‘too nice’ since you can either - A. use the power eventually, or B. use it as over protection for your current machine. (Note that a larger PSU is not a replacement for a surge protector or UPS).

[Anthony_Thomas]

Depending on what you plan on doing with the unit in the future, I would buy a quality unit from someone like Seasonic (my choice), corsair, EVGA, or someone else ranked high on this list.

If you plan on completely swapping your build up and putting a 40-series GPU in it, then it might be worth investing in a 1000w PSU, otherwise you could skate by nicely with a 650w and save the extra money.

This is an area where you really can’t do ‘too nice’ since you can either - A. use the power eventually, or B. use it as over protection for your current machine. (Note that a larger PSU is not a replacement for a surge protector or UPS).

what PSU would you recommend for about 100$

[Bruce]

a good PSU on a budget just does not go together sadly.
you’re going to have to go above $100 for anything decent, and a good sign of decent is any model with a 10 year warranty.

[Pyro]

Bruce is right, I’d stay away from anything without a 7 or 10 year warranty, if the manufacturer doesn’t warranty it for that long I wouldn’t bother putting it in a computer with any parts of value in them.

This is where I (again) would like to encourage you into figuring out where you want to be in the next couple years with your computer, If you plan on upgrading in the next couple years it might be worth spending more now so you’re not going to be leaving the warranty period on the table.

If you decide that you will be happy with where you’re at, I would recommend something like a Seasonic SSR-650FX, it has a semi-modular counterpart that come with a 7-year instead of 10-year at a slight discount. If you want to upgrade just a bit you could look into a 750w or 850w for + $20-$30, that would get you into early 30-series cards if that’s an interest.

[Bruce]

@Anthony Thomas - any news?

[Anthony_Thomas]

Yeah I’ma just get a whole new PC going to sell this for about 600 and build my new one off of a certified PC builder site

[PeterOz]

@Anthony Thomas @Pyro Sorry I missed this one.
I agree with the power supply being the issue.

PC going to sell this for about 600 and build my new one off of a certified PC builder site

Can I suggest that when you have the parts picked you either check the build parts or ask here. Especially the power supply.
As mentioned, if you buy a 10-year model you should be able to put it in a new computer in around 5 years.

The other thing to look out for is how much ram the cpu can take.
I have seen builds by “certified PC builder site” where they put 3800 ram in because the motherboard will take it but the cpu can only handle 3200.