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star_pilot475
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2 minutes ago, star_pilot475 said:

Ok so what cheap psu that can support a power hungry graphics card would you recommend? 

there is a psu tier list down my signature, tier c+

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Hello everyone, I was wondering if you guys had any advice. Lately, I’ve been taking apart old junk PCs and piecing them together into a "gaming" pc. At the moment, I have a graphics card that I can’t use (MSI Radeon R9 380) because my power supply doesn’t have pcie connectors or even enough power to supply the card. I’ve got my eye on a Cooler Master Elite Power 460-watt thats up on Craigslist near me. If I get that and install it I know my cpu will most likely bottleneck. (It’s an AMD Athlon II X4 650 3.2GHz) What is the best upgrade that I can do for the cheapest price? 

 

Here's my full system specs.

 

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  • CPU
    AMD Athlon II X4 650
  • Motherboard
    N-Alvorix-RS880-uATX (Alvorix)
  • RAM
    8GB DDR3
  • GPU
    MSI Radeon R9 380 Gaming 4G
  • Case
    Some crap hp thing
  • Storage
    HGST 500GB 2.5 inch SATA Drive (pulled from a PS4)
  • PSU
    HiPro 300-watt (got my eye on a cooler master elite power 460- watt)
  • Display(s)
    Samsung 32inch LED TV
  • Cooling
    Foxconn fan and a junk stock heatsink
  • Keyboard
    Older Mac wired keyboard
  • Mouse
    Logitech wireless
  • Sound
    A cheap usb speaker, plus some really sweet Corsair HS60 Surround Headphones
  • Operating System
    Windows 7 64-bit

I got a ps5 and a pc pretty ballin

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this board can use Phenom II X6 10xx, but with the iffy (if not poor) PSU you're upgrading to I wouldn't bother doing it myself.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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2 minutes ago, star_pilot475 said:

Ok, I didn’t realize that cooler master was so bad. So a Corsair TX650 would be better then? 

cooler master isn't that bad

 

the elite series is.

 

tx would be MUCH better, but officially eol, so i wouldn't use it either

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