Upgrading Sandy Bridge system and adding new components.

FinishGamer86 · July 20, 2019

I was wondering if upgrading (which I am going to do in a few days) my Sandy Bridge main system, will it handle a few modern games at least at 1080p or 900p medium-low settings? . My motherboard supports up to a i7-2600 non K version CPU, which I obviously intend to buy because why not? It has 4 cores, 8 threads and it's faster 3.40GHz than my 2 core , 4 thread i3-2100 3.10GHz . Now , this is a 8 year old cpu. but since I don't really want to buy another PC which costs even more, I rather save this and upgrade it.

I was thinking about a Zotac GTX 750 ti 2GB (single fan) as a gpu and an additional 4GB DDR3 Memory at 1333MHz , the total RAM will be 7GB total with the additional 4GB (i know , sounds crazy)

The budget I have now is 147.37 euros for the upgrade including the thermal paste.

The budget is the total price what I have to pay when I order all of the components.

What are your thoughts? Will it play a few "modern" games at 1080p or 900p medium-low?

dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd · July 20, 2019

Personally I wouldn't get a 750. Look for a cheap 960, 970, 1050Ti or perhaps a 1060 3GB. The i7-2600 will be able to handle the first 3 just fine and shouldn't be too much of a bottleneck on the last one.

Then again I'm not sure if that 320W HP PSU has the connectors to feed the 60 and 70 series cards. 1050Ti should work fine though, and it'll be a nice match for that CPU.

With the 750 you'd probably be at low to medium settings in 1080p, with a 1050Ti you'd have good framerates on medium to high.

FinishGamer86 · July 20, 2019

1 hour ago, Captain Chaos said:

Personally I wouldn't get a 750. Look for a cheap 960, 970, 1050Ti or perhaps a 1060 3GB. The i7-2600 will be able to handle the first 3 just fine and shouldn't be too much of a bottleneck on the last one.

Then again I'm not sure if that 320W HP PSU has the connectors to feed the 60 and 70 series cards. 1050Ti should work fine though, and it'll be a nice match for that CPU.

With the 750 you'd probably be at low to medium settings in 1080p, with a 1050Ti you'd have good framerates on medium to high.

First off thanks for the answer.

Second there are two main problems. The first is that the PSU doesn't have any connectors for a GPU. My current Graphics Card is powered by the motherboard. And the second problem is about space, the CPU cooler is just too big for let's say a dual fan gtx 1050 ti. I mean a single fan would definitely fit , but a dual fan seems impossible.

dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd · July 20, 2019

Looking on the UK Ebay site (apparently there is no finland-specific version of Ebay so I'm using that), I'm seeing single-fan 1050Ti cards for 80-ish €, shipping included.

Those seem to draw all their power through the PCIe slot (or at least the MSI 1050Ti 4G OC that I'm looking at does).