Pc upgrade path on a budget. my optiplex 980

[Alan.Papi]

Budget 200-500

Country: north Carolina

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: apex r6 gta five video editing 

Other details   i wanna do 1080 medium gaming with around 60 hz

250 gig SSD and 465 gig hard drive i

 8 gigs of ram 16 is the goal

core i7 870

I have a GTX 970 (ill keep it)

PSU Antec 500 watt 

I want to get a new mother board ram and CPU if they don't fit within budget i can stretch it

need a new case cause of cable management and looks 

 

pc inside pc front view pc side view

Edited June 20, 2021 by Alan.Papi

[Somerandomtechyboi]

I think these are spam accounts

[Alan.Papi]

1 minute ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

I think these are spam accounts

oh im not a spammer

 

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, Alan.Papi said:

oh im not a spammer

 

Well you didnt post anything

[Alan.Papi]

Just now, jaslion said:

Well you didnt post anything

i just made this account what should i be posting

 

[jaslion]

Just now, Alan.Papi said:

i just made this account what should i be posting

 

Your question before hitting submit but you did so Ill give you an answer.

 

We need more specifications here.

 

Your system is ancient and for now the only reusable part is the 970.

 

What case do you have?

What storage do you have?

What psu do you have (not just wattage the EXACT model)?

[Alan.Papi]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

Your question before hitting submit but you did so Ill give you an answer.

 

We need more specifications here.

 

Your system is ancient and for now the only reusable part is the 970.

 

What case do you have?

What storage do you have?

What psu do you have (not just wattage the EXACT model)?

thanks for the tips 

[jaslion]

Just now, Alan.Papi said:

thanks for the tips 

I just saw the title update it is a optiplex 980.

 

So all that can be reused is storage and the gpu (maybe psu if you changed it).

 

Your budget is too low to get you a better system.

[Alan.Papi]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

I just saw the title update it is a optiplex 980.

 

So all that can be reused is storage and the gpu (maybe psu if you changed it).

 

Your budget is too low to get you a better system.

i wanted to upgrade it slowly the budget is gonna grow soon 

i feel as if i upgraded the cpu and ram it would help alot

 

[jaslion]

2 minutes ago, Alan.Papi said:

i wanted to upgrade it slowly the budget is gonna grow soon 

i feel as if i upgraded the cpu and ram it would help alot

 

You'd need a new cpu, ram, board, psu AND case to be able to upgrade just the cpu. Because this system has very few reusable parts.

 

So pretty much a budget of about 450 will do the trick.

[Alan.Papi]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

You'd need a new cpu, ram, board, psu AND case to be able to upgrade just the cpu. Because this system has very few reusable parts.

 

So pretty much a budget of about 450 will do the trick.

thanks that seems like a reasonable budget I'm lucky enough to have a sad who only works for his kids

[Alan.Papi]

i just need a good list of good budget components if you can help

 

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Srry for accusing you as a spammer, cause it seems like most spam accounts just post the default msg thingy or whatever you call it followed by a random topic name