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Upgrading from pre build question

Andrew651
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I have a hp envy phoenix 810-209 I would like to know what I can keep and what I should get new of I bought a new graphics card for this machine around 5 years ago it's a GTX 970 4GB my budget is around 1000 to 1400 I would like to reuse some components if I can. Is doubling up graphics cards like a GTX 970 with a 2060 super good? Is the ram good? Can this cpu be used on another mother board a better non hp specific one. It has an I7 intel just realised the 9 so 7 is still good right? I am finding these days my computer is not running like it used to when I first bought it I'm getting errors on fresh insalls of windows 7 that never used to happen like missing vcruntime140.ddl missing stuff like that so that's why I'm upgrading.

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You can't pair those two cards together like that.

You can use the CPU in another motherboard, but then you're not getting much of an upgrade.

What exactly is your goal?

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1 hour ago, Andrew651 said:

I have a hp envy phoenix 810-209 I would like to know what I can keep and what I should get new of I bought a new graphics card for this machine around 5 years ago it's a GTX 970 4GB my budget is around 1000 to 1400 I would like to reuse some components if I can. Is doubling up graphics cards like a GTX 970 with a 2060 super good? Is the ram good? Can this cpu be used on another mother board a better non hp specific one. It has an I7 intel just realised the 9 so 7 is still good right? I am finding these days my computer is not running like it used to when I first bought it I'm getting errors on fresh insalls of windows 7 that never used to happen like missing vcruntime140.ddl missing stuff like that so that's why I'm upgrading.

save that old stuff for backup ,

not good anymore for new era gaming right now (game triple A 80 fps++)

only hdd can reuse again.

different variant gpu can't join like that.

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