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I'm getting my mom's desktop because she uses a Chromebook now. It's an HP Pavilion p7-1534 which is a huge upgrade from my Gateway E4610D lol. It's completely stock and has an AMD A8-5500 APU with AMD Radeon HD 7560D graphics and 8 gigs of DDR3 ram. I don't want to pay for a new motherboard so could I get some recommendations for upgrades? I find the best CPU is the AMD A10-5800K but I may be wrong so I'm asking here. Thank you in advance.

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Mobo: MSI 2AE0 1.0 (FM2)
CPU: AMD A8 5500 (3.2/3.7GHz)
GPU: Asus GeForce GT 1030 (2GB)
PSU: HP 667893-002 (300w)
RAM: x2 Samsung M378B1G73BH0-CK0 (8GB DDR3)

Drive 1: Kingston A400 SA400S37240G (240 GB)
Drive 2: Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 (1TB)

Monitor: Toshiba 23L1350U (23", 1920x1080, 60HZ)

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To do what? It's an office computer at this point that can play minecraft and the a10 won't change that at all. It's simply put too old and low end to play any new games if that is what you are wishing to do.

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What do you want to use it for? What games?

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  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3090 FE
  • RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) 5000MHz CL18
  • Motherboard: MSI MEG X570 Godlike
  • SSD: Samsung 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 1TB (x3)
  • PSU: Corsair AX1600i
  • Case: NZXT H710
  • Monitor: Alienware AW2521H 25inch 360Hz 1ms
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It depends what you are using it for.

 

If it for an office, then you dont need to upgrade

 

If its for gaming, mabye a graphics card????

 

Im not sure about swapping out the CPU tho

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20 minutes ago, Burner1061 said:

I'm getting my mom's desktop because she uses a Chromebook now. It's an HP Pavilion p7-1534 which is a huge upgrade from my Gateway E4610D lol. It's completely stock and has an AMD A8-5500 APU with AMD Radeon HD 7560D graphics and 8 gigs of DDR3 ram. I don't want to pay for a new motherboard so could I get some recommendations for upgrades? I find the best CPU is the AMD A10-5800K but I may be wrong so I'm asking here. Thank you in advance.

The best FM2 CPU is the A10-6800K, though it might not support it.

It won't do much for you though - the FM2 platform, to put it bluntly, sucked.

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What do you plan to do with it? It's an older system, and upgrades aren't going to help it game a lot. You could put a GPU in there, but I wouldn't put much money into a different CPU. 

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33 minutes ago, Burner1061 said:

I'm getting my mom's desktop because she uses a Chromebook now. It's an HP Pavilion p7-1534 which is a huge upgrade from my Gateway E4610D lol. It's completely stock and has an AMD A8-5500 APU with AMD Radeon HD 7560D graphics and 8 gigs of DDR3 ram. I don't want to pay for a new motherboard so could I get some recommendations for upgrades? I find the best CPU is the AMD A10-5800K but I may be wrong so I'm asking here. Thank you in advance.

* Ram is the easiest upgrade, go for 16gb

* Then get an SSD is your don't have one already. Its big performance boost.

* For GPU maybe an NVIDIA 1060

* Max supported CPU is the Quad-Core A10-5800K

 

I would upgrade the cost it not that much, everything is rather cheap apart from GPUs at the moment.

Upgrade everything else and wait for GPU prices to go down.

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41 minutes ago, Burner1061 said:

I'm getting my mom's desktop because she uses a Chromebook now. It's an HP Pavilion p7-1534 which is a huge upgrade from my Gateway E4610D lol. It's completely stock and has an AMD A8-5500 APU with AMD Radeon HD 7560D graphics and 8 gigs of DDR3 ram. I don't want to pay for a new motherboard so could I get some recommendations for upgrades? I find the best CPU is the AMD A10-5800K but I may be wrong so I'm asking here. Thank you in advance.

Also post photos of the interior of the PC

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41 minutes ago, Burner1061 said:

I'm getting my mom's desktop because she uses a Chromebook now. It's an HP Pavilion p7-1534 which is a huge upgrade from my Gateway E4610D lol. It's completely stock and has an AMD A8-5500 APU with AMD Radeon HD 7560D graphics and 8 gigs of DDR3 ram. I don't want to pay for a new motherboard so could I get some recommendations for upgrades? I find the best CPU is the AMD A10-5800K but I may be wrong so I'm asking here. Thank you in advance.

That is the best chip the motherboard supports.

 

A couple ideas,

Clone the OS and get a sata SSD. That will improve the system a lot.

Then, if this board has a PCI_E slot, find a dedicated graphics card.

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5 hours ago, Biomecanoid said:

Also post photos of the interior of the PC

https://ibb.co/SwyCG6W

https://ibb.co/NNqNJnF

 

Let me know if you want more

Mobo: MSI 2AE0 1.0 (FM2)
CPU: AMD A8 5500 (3.2/3.7GHz)
GPU: Asus GeForce GT 1030 (2GB)
PSU: HP 667893-002 (300w)
RAM: x2 Samsung M378B1G73BH0-CK0 (8GB DDR3)

Drive 1: Kingston A400 SA400S37240G (240 GB)
Drive 2: Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 (1TB)

Monitor: Toshiba 23L1350U (23", 1920x1080, 60HZ)

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