pc upgrade help What do I upgrade first?

[Nexus47]

Hi, Im pretty new to Pc gaming. I had a pc that was built from a family member but I was wondering what should I upgrade first. My storage is no issue since I have plenty of space. 

My pc specs were:

Intel core i5 4570

Nvidia 1050 ti Motherboard 
Lenovo Sharkbay Ram

Ramaxel Technoledgy DDR3 

Antex 900 Case

 

 

Thanks,

[Nexus47]

My bad formatted it weirdly.

[QuantumSingularity]

Depends on what you want from the PC. To browse web, watch movies and some light games, don't bother with anything - it's already pretty much at max for this. If you want to game a bit more regularly on it though, better get an entire new system. This is already a very old platform and it's not worth pouring money in it, unless you plan to play only old games on it. 

[venomtail]

Pretty much just the GPU. Some used $250~ will go a long way from a 1050ti, something like a 2060S, Vega 64 or 5700XT

[Nexus47]

4 minutes ago, QuantumSingularity said:

Depends on what you want from the PC. To browse web, watch movies and some light games, don't bother with anything - it's already pretty much at max for this. If you want to game a bit more regularly on it though, better get an entire new system. This is already a very old platform and it's not worth pouring money in it, unless you plan to play only old games on it. 

I was mainly going to be playing games that would run on a ps4. Stuff like Nier automata. I think I'll take "venomtail" suggestion and upgrade the gpu first though 

 

[GorujoCY]

9 minutes ago, Nexus47 said:

I was mainly going to be playing games that would run on a ps4. Stuff like Nier automata. I think I'll take "venomtail" suggestion and upgrade the gpu first though 

 

yup, I would aslo probably recommend buying an i7-4770 as well for cpu upgrade, this will likely be a huge help in cpu bound games

[QuantumSingularity]

I wouldn't be spending money on an RTX card though. Most probably GTX 1080 (Ti) will be perfectly sufficient for everything and will save you quite a lot money.

[G-Lord20]

I reccomend that you upgrade your ram. 16 GB are perfect and ddr3 are now way cheaper. About the GPU, you might need to get a better PSU, for more power. As @GorujoCY mentioned, an i7-4770 will be great.

 

But if you think about it, it might be better to get a new build. 

 

 

[Guest]

1.

Power supply so you can run better stuff

2. 

Case if you want to have a good time upgrading. $90-150 for some nice good airflow and good to work in 

3. Graphics card. 1080 are as low as 200 on eBay from what I saw. 

4. Cpu/mobo/ram

 

I wouldn't get "more" ddr3 at this point. I'd just get a new "core" configuration if you need more memory/cpu power.

 

Power supply is something I thought I did well upgrading, but it's not quite as high as I needed in the past. 

Case is a dream. Amy time I open it, it's pure joy that it's going to be easy to do things. 

 

1050 is "slow" but it's still plenty good. If you want more frames in games, get a 1080 or something else. Some 3060 are as low as 380~ new. Rtx is awesome.