Old rig! need help for recommendations

[Richard_550]

 Budget (including currency): under 2,5 mil(rupiah) (so maybe 215 canadian dollars)

Country: Indonesia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

Other details 

-CPU AMD FX-8120 79 �C Zambez 32nm Technology

-RAM 8,00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 803MHz (11-11-11-28)

 -Motherboard Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. 970A-D3 (CPU 1) 33 �C

-Graphics Nvidia 1060 6gb (broken fan, currently using my back up one whic is nvidia 550)

 -Storage 931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-60ZF5A0 ATA Device 

   (Still waiting a 2tb barracuda, still in shipping)

-PSU corsair CX7 750m

 

hi guys, I'm new in this forum but been a LTT's subscirber for 5-6 years now. (So, hdwyd, fellas)

 

My friend build this rig 10 years ago with upgradability in mind, but only managed to upgrade the PSU (from corsair vs550 to cx7 750), GPU (from 550 to 1060 6gb) also HDD (sata 1 tb to 2 tb -because i broke the connector )

Now i kinda want to upgrade something from it and i definitely want to keep my 1060, SATA and psu.

 

So i want to know what my options regarding my motherboard and cpu, what choice do i have that still compatible with my gpu and RAM? I know they're old, DDR 3, but still kinda want to keep them....but if not, it's fine too, I'll try to upgrade them later on. And i kinda want to keep the CPU too because i think it still work pretty well, but i still want to know my options

 

Another reason for changing my Motherboard is because my house got strike by lightning a few years ago (and my house actually have that lightning-trap-thing to redirect a lightning strike to ground which suddenly didn't work), and it kinda broke my motherboard (the ethernet-port part). But it fixed now (sometimes not.... sometimes it loose connection-the yellow-green light turn off, then turn on again), just that, i think there's another part of the motherboard that broke too (not sure what)

 

In conclusion, need recommendations for the motherboard and CPU (maybe also RAM) that still able to work with my 1060 and ddr3

(my personal upgrade priority are 1.motherboard

2.CPU

3.Ram 

If i can upgrade all of them, great, if not, I'm good with upgrading my motherboard first).

 

I'm not a power user, my current main-video game is dota 2, also I'm interested in playing older video games (campaign mode, like crysis, modern warfare, assassin's creed black flag...etc, things like that) I'm kinda not interested playing the battle royal genre.

Also, i crypto mining too, i just leave my rig when I'm not playing games or watching movies.

 

Really appreciate to whomever reading this and putting a suggestion/suggestions for my rig upgrade...also, i got electrical black-out a couple days ago, so now my rig kinda broke (still troubleshooting it, still can't find where's the trouble), so it's probably a good time i upgrade something while finding the current problems.

 

Cheers and stay save from covid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

I would recommend against upgrading to a ddr3 based platform, since the hardware compatible with ddr3 is so old there will be marginal performance gains, and you would end up wasting your money. If you don't need extra power at the moment, just keep on saving and upgrade to something more recent. 

[Richard_550]

1 hour ago, Konrad_K said:

I would recommend against upgrading to a ddr3 based platform, since the hardware compatible with ddr3 is so old there will be marginal performance gains, and you would end up wasting your money. If you don't need extra power at the moment, just keep on saving and upgrade to something more recent. 

Does newer MoBo got reverse compatibility to ddr3? Because now i remember that, besides the MoBo's ethernet socket got electrocuted, the 8pin-socket (eps socket- the one to power the MoBo), 2 of the holes got burn marks too. It affects how my rig-works (maybe?)

Because of that, i think upgrading ny motherboard is a priority, but i just don't know upgrading to what