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Building a portable side rig. Help with compatability please.

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At the moment I have never built a PC. I bought a Chillblast a couple of years ago for a desktop. My laptop though, what I use for portable gaming when I go round friends can no longer run much more than doom. I saw the Silverstone Sugo video and though I could stick a screen on the front and bam it's portable, that seems like it will work from what I've worked out. The problem is that I dont know about compatability issues. I spotted yesterday that I had a DDR2 graphics card in a DDR3 motherboard and that's just made me worry. Please help. Here are the specs;

 

Case: SilverStone 12050 Sugo Case, £40

Graphics card: EVGA GT 610 2GB DDR3 VGA DVI HDMI

Monitor: 10 Inch Car Digital LCD Screen VGA

PSU: Corsair Builder Series CXM 500W Modular 80 PLUS Bronze

Motherboard: MSI AM1I Socket AM1

CPU: AMD APU Athlon 5350 Quad Core Processor

Fan: Noctua NF-A9x14 PWM Slim

RAM: HyperX FURY Series 4GB DDR3 1600MHz

HDD: 500GB SATA 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive

WIFI Card: Tenda W322P WIRELESS

Thermal Paste: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound

 

I need to keep it all around the £350 or $500US mark.

 

If there is a cheap upgrade I could make, please help.

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Graphics card: EVGA GT 610 2GB DDR3 VGA DVI HDMI.

 

You are not going to be gaming on a 610

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You are not going to be gaming on a 610

Why not? and what would you recommend instead?

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R7 360 minimum

 

 

i7-6700k  Cooling: Deepcool Captain 240EX White GPU: GTX 1080Ti EVGA FTW3 Mobo: AsRock Z170 Extreme4 Case: Phanteks P400s TG Special Black/White PSU: EVGA 850w GQ Ram: 64GB (3200Mhz 16x4 Corsair Vengeance RGB) Storage 1x 1TB Seagate Barracuda 240GBSandisk SSDPlus, 480GB OCZ Trion 150, 1TB Crucial NVMe
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£52.00 @ Aria PC)

Motherboard: MSI A88XI AC V2 Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard (£68.79 @ Ebuyer)

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£32.10 @ Ebuyer)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.00 @ Amazon UK)

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 270 2GB TurboDuo Video Card (£106.41 @ Amazon UK)

Case: Silverstone Sugo SG13B Mini ITX Tower Case (£35.99 @ Scan.co.uk)

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£29.95 @ CCL Computers)

Total: £364.24

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-29 17:04 BST+0100

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/451339-help-me-find-him/
 
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Why not? and what would you recommend instead?

 

750ti or something like that,  a 610 is not a gaming card, heck I have a 620 in my office PC

 

It will get about 5fps in games

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The 610 is a very old graphics card and will be a really bad choice for the computer. Get a 750 or preferably a 750 ti.

 

If you can wait maybe a month or two for the 950 or 950 ti to come out, that would be your best option.

How would a 740 fair. In my desktop right now I have a 650 Ti boost but I cant seem to find that anywhere. I would be getting the PC more towards Xmas so i can wait. What would the benefit of 950 over the 750 be?

 

I have found a 650 2GB that would be more in my price range, would that work or is the boost important. I am able to play most games at high at 30FPS and medium with some tinkering at 60FPS.

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I'm also getting confused at all the different makes of Nvidea cards. There's Vamery and EVGA and MSI and all these others. Is there any difference or is it just looks?

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Just get a case where you can easily access the GPU so you can just swap the GPU between your computers

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Just get a case where you can easily access the GPU so you can just swap the GPU between your computers

The whole point of this is the portability. The design is build around the case. I also don't really want the fuss of that. 

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The whole point of this is the portability. The design is build around the case. I also don't really want the fuss of that.

Ok, I just suggest that because it would be worth it to me... The sg13 would probably be easy enough anyways

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Ok, I just suggest that because it would be worth it to me... The sg13 would probably be easy enough anyways

Actually, my desktop tower has the graphics card buried and to the non remove-able side. So that wouldn't have been an option from that perspective. Thanks anyway.

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