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5 year old PC upgrade

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Budget (including currency): I'd prefer to keep it as cheap as possible, somewhere around the €400/€500 range

Country: Ireland

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: It will be used mostly for gaming, so it doesn't need to be anything crazy

Other details: This is a screenshot of my PC now from when I originally bought it, so if any upgrades could be reccomended based off of this that would be amazing. https://prnt.sc/a23gw6

The motherboard is now this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GA-H110M-S2H-Ultra-Durable-Motherboards/dp/B01649KMZS as the motherboard built with the PC originally, decided to short for no apparant reason.

I would like to get two monitors with this upgrade as well so if anyone has some good suggestions for those that would be amazing, this can be outside of the original 400/500 budget range.

 

Thanks in adavnce

 

 

 

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What about your build is lacking in your eyes?
Your budget doesn't really allow that much. You can get a CPU upgrade, or a GPU upgrade, but not both.

You also don't have an SSD, which IMO is a insane in 2020.

CPU: Ryzen 9 5900 Cooler: EVGA CLC280 Motherboard: Gigabyte B550i Pro AX RAM: Kingston Hyper X 32GB 3200mhz

Storage: WD 750 SE 500GB, WD 730 SE 1TB GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1050 PSU: Corsair SF750 Case: Streacom DA2

Monitor: LG 27GL83B Mouse: Razer Basilisk V2 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red Speakers: Mackie CR5BT

 

MiniPC - Sold for $100 Profit

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CPU: Intel i3 4160 Cooler: Integrated Motherboard: Integrated

RAM: G.Skill RipJaws 16GB DDR3 Storage: Transcend MSA370 128GB GPU: Intel 4400 Graphics

PSU: Integrated Case: Shuttle XPC Slim

Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

Budget Rig 1 - Sold For $750 Profit

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CPU: Intel i5 7600k Cooler: CryOrig H7 Motherboard: MSI Z270 M5

RAM: Crucial LPX 16GB DDR4 Storage: Intel S3510 800GB GPU: Nvidia GTX 980

PSU: Corsair CX650M Case: EVGA DG73

Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

OG Gaming Rig - Gone

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CPU: Intel i5 4690k Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 Motherboard: MSI Z97i AC ITX

RAM: Crucial Ballistix 16GB DDR3 Storage: Kingston Fury 240GB GPU: Asus Strix GTX 970

PSU: Thermaltake TR2 Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX

Monitor: Dell P2214H x2 Mouse: Logitech MX Master Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

 

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I was leaning more towards a CPU upgrade as I felt the GPU is well capable of handling games even today(I could be completely wrong about that and if I am please do correct me on it), I was certainly thinking of an SSD as well as everyone seems to say that they are pretty much a necessity now.

 

The main things I felt needed an upgrade were the CPU, possibly the RAM, and the harddrive space. I'm not too sure if the motherboard needs an upgrade as it was just a quick purchase as a replacement for my old motherboard so I'm not sure myself on how good/bad of a motherboard it actually is.

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