Best Upgrade Path?

[Lolzious]

Hello all!

 

So I have an older PC ("Survivor") that I'm looking to upgrade. I'll mostly be using it for school and web browsing, as well as some gaming (probably just in home streaming from my main rig)

It's currently rocking a Pentium E5800 (dual core, 3.2ghz, 2mb L2) 4gb of DDR3 10XX RAM, 520w PSU, 320gb HDD, inside of an FTC Aurora case.

As you may have noticed, theres no GPU :'(

I could put my XFX 5770 in, but the poor bastard would probably die

 

1) Anyways, to cut to point, I need a graphics card (1gb and up) nothing too fancy, used, refurbished, or older cards are all acceptable.

2) An SSD (been looking at the Corsair Force LS 60gb)

3) Any cheap keyboard, OK optical mouse

4) Wireless card or long Cat6 cable (20-30ft)

5) And if you're a miracle worker, and manage to find all this and an M-ATX case, you will be loved.

 

Budget is $250 CAD

[Deletive]

pentium with cheap motherboard, keep everything else then with the 120$ish dollars a new GPU? 
 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($78.32 @ TigerDirect Canada) 

Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($49.50 @ Vuugo) 

Video Card: VisionTek Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card  ($119.99 @ NCIX) 

Total: $247.81

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-03 00:15 EST-0500

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[Lolzious]

 

pentium with cheap motherboard, keep everything else then with the 120$ish dollars a new GPU? 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($78.32 @ TigerDirect Canada) 

Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($49.50 @ Vuugo) 

Video Card: VisionTek Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card  ($119.99 @ NCIX) 

Total: $247.81

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-03 00:15 EST-0500

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You're not understandingggg

 

The current hardware is fine, I just need a GPU, SSD, mouse&keyboard, and maybe a case.

[Deletive]

You're not understandingggg

 

The current hardware is fine, I just need a GPU, SSD, mouse&keyboard, and maybe a case.

Well right now anything worth while on the GPU side would probably be bottlenecked by that CPU 

[Lolzious]

Well right now anything worth while on the GPU side would probably be bottlenecked by that CPU 

pssshhh that CPU is a little beast

All I really need is 1gb of VRAM and HDMI tbh

[Deletive]

pssshhh that CPU is a little beast

All I really need is 1gb of VRAM and HDMI tbh

 

 

Storage: A-Data Premier SP610 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($69.44 @ DirectCanada) 

Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 250X 1GB Video Card  ($102.05 @ Newegg Canada) 

Total: $171.49

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-03 02:39 EST-0500

Mice and keyboard/cases depend on the persons personal opinion plus I'm really tired.

a good SSD though is that one, ther 64gb is like 10dollar less so might as well double it for a little more.