Upgrade to my parents' old PC

[Roggal]

Hi there,
So there is a problem which I can't seem to get my head around. I am trying to make my parents PC alive again at least to some extent. I am limited by the motherboard a bit and don't want to invest too much, but would really appreciate some help or at least guidance as to what to focus on. The problem which I am facing now is that even applications like Word or Chrome are taking their time to be responsive, and it take a long time for many things to load. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Budget (including currency): As little as possible just to meet the requirements

Country: Poland

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Office, watching YouTube, streaming to another screen (4K main screen + stream to FHD screen).

Current config:

MoBo: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4

• Supports Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad-Core / Core™2 Duo / Intel® Pentium® Extreme/ Intel® Pentium® D processor
• Supports DDR2 800/667/533 memory
• Gigabyte SATA 3Gb/s Controller
• 2 PCI Express X16 slot(run @ x16, x4)

Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6400 (2M Cache, 2.13 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB)

HDD: SAMSUNG SP2504C (250GB, 7200 RPM)

Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD5450

RAM: GEIL (2x2GB, 2x1GB)

 

Would just changing the graphics card and the HDD work to get some movement on it? Or am I looking at getting some more new parts here?

 

Thanks for any help in advance!

[bulkyy]

Would you be willing to invest in an SSD? just sounds like a bad drive

[Roggal]

9 minutes ago, bulkyy said:

Would you be willing to invest in an SSD? just sounds like a bad drive

Yes, definitely - It doesn't have to fly or anything - just do its job. What would you recommend?

[Boomwebsearch]

2 minutes ago, Roggal said:

Yes, definitely - It doesn't have to fly or anything - just do its job. What would you recommend?

 

This should be a reasonably high-speed SSD with enough storage for most users (if you need more then I would recommend a HDD for large files and less frequently accessed programs, running frequently used files/programs and the OS on the SSD). -->     https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075RJS55D?tag=pcpapi-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1

 

[tkitch]

DOn't upgrade.  It's not worth it.

 

Ebay it.  Look for Dell or HP or Lenovo i5 7500 business refurbed computers.

 

For under 200$ US, you'll get an i5 7500 + 8-16GB + SSD.  Plus the 7th gen iGPU does support 4K, including with netflix and such.

 

All of which will destroy anything you could do to upgrade that box and be fairly reasonable.

[Roggal]

Thanks All,

Much appreciated.