What is the biggest flaw in this PC

[medar]

FX 6300

R7 260X 1GB

8GB DDR3 1866MHz

SSD 120GB HDD 500GB

ik the cpu is pretty old but is the cpu worse than the gpu? What should be my priority.

[medar]

PSU 450w bronze certified

[whispous]

Replacing the entire thing. Nothing here will be upgradeable to give you much of a chance with modern popular games.

 

The CPU, if you must know which part is the "Bottleneck".

[manikyath]

it's difficult to say...

it's like it's a finely balanced build of outdated and suboptimal parts.

 

here's the thing... when you use this pc for whatever you use it, which part is maxed out?

that's the part you should upgrade next.

[dj_ripcord]

Your system is definitely seeing a CPU botleneck. I would bet that while you're playing games your CPU is near 100% yes?

Definitely replace the CPU if you can. But also hear me out with this:

 

Maybe look into speccing out a brand new build that with DDR4 RAM and a Ryzen CPU. You're not going to be able to upgrade this system much longer and still get decent performance out of it. The hardware is simply too old.

[mariushm]

Yeah, you'd have to replace the whole thing.

 

Any powerful video card will be held back by the CPU and any cpu upgrade would provide too little performance increase to be worth it.

 

The SSD *may* be reusable, but honestly as you upgrade to Windows 10 you're gonna want at least a 500 GB nvme SSD to get the most.

[medar]

17 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Yeah, you'd have to replace the whole thing.

 

Any powerful video card will be held back by the CPU and any cpu upgrade would provide too little performance increase to be worth it.

 

The SSD *may* be reusable, but honestly as you upgrade to Windows 10 you're gonna want at least a 500 GB nvme SSD to get the most.

so this GPU is stronger then my CPU hahahahaahhafsheuedhjrgkflel

[Vishera]

15 minutes ago, manikyath said:

here's the thing... when you use this pc for whatever you use it, which part is maxed out?

that's the part you should upgrade next.

I have a system with a FX 8320E + HD 6970 and in a lot of modern games the bottleneck is the CPU.

But the 1GB of VRAM of the 260X is very problematic,and not to mention that the performance of the 260X is even worse than my HD 6970.

So both of them should be upgraded.

[Vishera]

4 minutes ago, yagamilight said:

so this GPU is stronger then my CPU hahahahaahhafsheuedhjrgkflel

I had say that your GPU is as bad as your CPU.

If you will buy a new CPU without upgrading the GPU you still won't be able to play much modern games.

And if you will buy a new GPU without upgrading the CPU it will be the same story.

[SupaKomputa]

3 minutes ago, yagamilight said:

so this GPU is stronger then my CPU hahahahaahhafsheuedhjrgkflel

Not really, that gpu can barely play modern games. You need at least 2GB.

You need to replace all, the only thing that can be transfered to new system only your ssd.

[manikyath]

10 minutes ago, Vishera said:

I have a system with a FX 8320E + HD 6970 and in a lot of modern games the bottleneck is the CPU.

But the 1GB of VRAM of the 260X is very problematic,and not to mention that the performance of the 260X is even worse than my HD 6970.

So both of them should be upgraded.

well, he asked which part he should upgrade first, it's gonna be a crapshoot either way, but you have to start somewhere i guess.

[Jurrunio]

This thing is probably easier (more like less difficult for how outdated it is) to sell as a whole unit, if you're thinking to improve it over time might as well don't.

[medar]

11 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

This thing is probably easier (more like less difficult for how outdated it is) to sell as a whole unit, if you're thinking to improve it over time might as well don't.

XD isn't just buying  new motherboard and CPU the same, I wont upgrade the CPU on this mobo for sure becayse I dont wanna use FX anymore 

[cloneman]

Needs a scrapyard wars style rebuild. Pricing is starting to come down on cpu+motherboard combos in the used market, as Intel has finally released some competitive products and people are starting to sell their 4670K's with board for under 100$. Not that I suggest that specific upgrade path, but it's not a horrible option either if the right deal comes along, maybe some ram included. Then you can flip it all again without losing much money in a year.

[DANK_AS_gay]

17 minutes ago, yagamilight said:

XD isn't just buying  new motherboard and CPU the same, I wont upgrade the CPU on this mobo for sure becayse I dont wanna use FX anymore 

You can get a GTX 970 for roughly $100-$130 US

[RejZoR]

Give it an RX 470, GTX 970 or even GTX 1060. It'll be like day and night difference. FX 6300 is old and crap, but it'll still make a huge difference.

[medar]

58 minutes ago, cloneman said:

Needs a scrapyard wars style rebuild. Pricing is starting to come down on cpu+motherboard combos in the used market, as Intel has finally released some competitive products and people are starting to sell their 4670K's with board for under 100$. Not that I suggest that specific upgrade path, but it's not a horrible option either if the right deal comes along, maybe some ram included. Then you can flip it all again without losing much money in a year.

Ive been a user of AMD for a long time and It's not that I think that AMD is better (even though it is) its like I have a bond to it for some reason and can't buy intel for some odd reason even tho its just a cpu.

[medar]

7 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Give it an RX 470, GTX 970 or even GTX 1060. It'll be like day and night difference. FX 6300 is old and crap, but it'll still make a huge difference.

Found this RX 550 for 90€ used he says in description that it works. I asked him and I will talk more and discuss so I dont get scammed. Btw if I insertrd an RX 550 instead of this r7 260x how bad would it be? GRAFICKA KARTICA AMD RX 550 2GB (190 KM)
https://www.olx.ba/r/47778221/1769792

[Vishera]

1 hour ago, yagamilight said:

Found this RX 550 for 90€ used he says in description that it works. I asked him and I will talk more and discuss so I dont get scammed. Btw if I insertrd an RX 550 instead of this r7 260x how bad would it be? GRAFICKA KARTICA AMD RX 550 2GB (190 KM)
https://www.olx.ba/r/47778221/1769792

The RX 550 is worse than the R7 260X you have...

At least get yourself a HD 7970 or better,

You will have no issues finding one of those for 100€:

https://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=hd 7970&_sacat=0&_udhi=100&LH_BIN=1&LH_ItemCondition=3000&rt=nc

[medar]

1 hour ago, Vishera said:

The RX 550 is worse than the R7 260X you have...

At least get yourself a HD 7970 or better,

You will have no issues finding one of those for 100€:

https://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=hd 7970&_sacat=0&_udhi=100&LH_BIN=1&LH_ItemCondition=3000&rt=nc

how is the RX 550 more expensive if its worse whatt?

[Vishera]

2 minutes ago, yagamilight said:

how is the RX 550 more expensive if its worse whatt?

Because it's newer i guess.

That's just how the market is.

[Middcore]

All of it. 

 

 

[medar]

15 hours ago, Schnoz said:

The SSD and HDD may still be good, although they are a bit small. Use CrystalDiskInfo to check your drives' health statuses. If they report as "Good", they'll likely serve for a good few years. If the HDD reports as "Caution" or if the SSD reports a low health percentage, replace the drive immediately to avoid data loss.

it says good, but i think i accidentaly donwloaded the anime version of this program xDDD but whatever i dont mind it

[cat milker]

honestly just replace the entire thing... a 12100 is decently priced, and so is a 1650... well its closer to msrp then it was 4 months ago that is. 

[medar]

5 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

I've actually never seen what the Shizuku and Kurei Kei editions of CrystalDiskInfo before, so seeing your screenshot for the first time was a bit of a shock lol. Though, they should be functionally identical to the Standard version, so no worries there.

 

Your drives look to be in excellent condition. In particular, that Toshiba HDD was actually designed by HGST, one of the best drive makers out there. Both storage devices should be good for a long while!

Yeah, about the toshiba drive I actually did not have the cash for a big SSD so I researched to find a good HDD, if its a hard drive at least that it was good so I found out that this toshiba was great. And ty for your help man