CPU

[Pink_husky87]

Hello, I was wondering what a good upgrade from a core 2 duo E8400 and 4gb of ddr2 ram is for streaming. I can stream with it right now but I want better quality for a small budget. Any suggestions?

[LienusLateTips]

Is this a second PC or is this a main PC?

 

Or are you on the receiving end?

 

What do the rest of your parts look like?

[zeusthemoose]

What is the budget?

[Pink_husky87]

1 minute ago, LienusLateTips said:

Is this a second PC or is this a main PC?

 

Or are you on the receiving end?

 

What do the rest of your parts look like?

Main pc

 

[Pink_husky87]

2 minutes ago, zeusthemoose said:

What is the budget?

About $120 USD

[Pink_husky87]

3 minutes ago, LienusLateTips said:

Is this a second PC or is this a main PC?

 

Or are you on the receiving end?

 

What do the rest of your parts look like?

 

i have a 1050ti in it so I dont need to upgrade that quite yet. The whole pc was free from my dad and I just got upgrades for it.

[zeusthemoose]

13 minutes ago, Pink_husky87 said:

About $120 USD

Then your best bet would be to look at your local used markets or reselling sites like eBay to see what you can find. You should probably replace your motherboard, cpu, and ram.
But if your system is an old prebuilt, it may have non-standard connections on your psu and for front io. If that’s the case, you will probably want to replace those too. In that instance, it’s probably best to wait until your budget is bigger and upgrade then.

[mariushm]

Just CPU is not worth it. Need to upgrade the MB and ram as well.

 

55$ MB : Amazon.com: GIGABYTE GA-A320M-S2H (AMD Ryzen AM4/MicroATX/2xDDR4/HDMI/Realtek ALC887/3xPCIe/USB3.1 Gen 1/LAN/Motherboard)

 

39$ RAM : Amazon.com: Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR4 3200 MT/s (PC4-25600) CL22 SR x16 UDIMM 288-Pin Memory - CT2K4G4DFS632A

 

CPU:  I'd say hit eBay for a used Ryzen 5 1400 (4 core with HT, 8 cores in total) for around 60$, or a Ryzen 1200 (4 core , 4 threads) for around 50$ , plus a 10-20$ cooler if they don't sell you the cooler.

 

If you want new, there's Ryzen 3000g at around 67$ ... it should actually be closer to 50$ :  

Amazon.com: AMD Athlon 3000G 2-Core, 4-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor with Radeon Graphics: Electronics

It would be a significant improvement over your current cpu (about 2-3 times faster) but it's probably 20% or so slower than even an original Ryzen 3 1200 (quad core)

 

You can sell your old motherboard+cpu+memory for maybe 30-50$, and you'll have lots of room to upgrade, the motherboard will be good for up to a 1st gen 8 core (like ryzen 1700/1800) or a second gen six core (ryzen 1600af, 2600 etc) when you'll have more money.

The 3000g will have some resale value, people will buy it for htpcs, small home servers etc so it's not a bad purchase.

So overall you'd be spending 55+40+70$  = ~ 170$   .. should be 150$ but cpu is more expensive, like i said should be 50$ not 67$.

You can go cheaper by buying a single stick of 4 GB DDR4 right now, and buy a 2nd stick later when you have more money.