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Upgrading a GTX 550ti to What? Or Upgrade Ram

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Hey everyone, I need to help deciding if I should upgrade this gpu thats in my family/office pc. 

 

It has the EVGA GTX 550ti Superclocked right now. 

 

I was hoping to run GTA V on this system when it comes out but I tried in BF4 and its already struggling in that game. 

 

Or should I skip the gpu upgrade and upgrade to 8GB Ram?

 

Other Relevant specs 

 

i3-3240 

Msi H61m-e33/w8

4GB DDR3 Ram

 

1680 x 1050 Monitor 

 

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Budget is really low here like I was telling one other person. $70 + $10 Best Buy Gift Card. I mean I can still wait and this is not a primary gaming rig. I just use it when away from my main system. This is a  office /family pc and some minor gaming when my cousins come over. 

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How much money do you have right now?

Main Rig: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) KLEVV CRAS XR RGB DDR4-3600 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX | Storage: 512GB SKHynix PC401, 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, 2x Micron 1100 256GB SATA SSDs | GPU: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra 10GB | Cooling: ThermalTake Floe 280mm w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 3 | Case: Sliger SM580 (Black) | PSU: Lian Li SP 850W

 

Server: CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) Crucial DDR4 Pro | Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS AC-HES | Storage: 128GB Samsung PM961, 4TB Seagate IronWolf | GPU: AMD FirePro WX 3100 | Cooling: EK-AIO Elite 360 D-RGB | Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow (White) | PSU: Seasonic Focus GM-850

 

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ram

then

monitor

then

290x (or 390x)

then

i5/i7

Thats that. If you need to get in touch chances are you can find someone that knows me that can get in touch.

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RAM/CPU/GPU/Monitor 

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I would upgrade that cpu first then another 4GB of ram and than gpu.

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I would upgrade that cpu first then another 4GB of ram and than gpu.

I agree get get a Ivy Bridge/Haswell i5 if you can.

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I would upgrade that cpu first then another 4GB of ram and than gpu.

The CPU isn't that big of a deal, about where an FX 6 core is in terms of gaming performance (maybe a tiny bit slower.)

 

Buy a G3258 and 4 gigs of more ram first 

A G3258 implies a new motherboard, and the i3 will still be as good for gaming.

Main Rig: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) KLEVV CRAS XR RGB DDR4-3600 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX | Storage: 512GB SKHynix PC401, 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, 2x Micron 1100 256GB SATA SSDs | GPU: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra 10GB | Cooling: ThermalTake Floe 280mm w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 3 | Case: Sliger SM580 (Black) | PSU: Lian Li SP 850W

 

Server: CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) Crucial DDR4 Pro | Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS AC-HES | Storage: 128GB Samsung PM961, 4TB Seagate IronWolf | GPU: AMD FirePro WX 3100 | Cooling: EK-AIO Elite 360 D-RGB | Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow (White) | PSU: Seasonic Focus GM-850

 

Miscellaneous: Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro (i5-8500T/16GB/512GB), Lenovo ThinkCentre M715q Tiny (R5 2400GE/16GB/256GB), Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF (i5-6400/8GB/128GB)

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How much money do you have right now?

Honestly not a lot. Probably $70 + $10 Best Buy Gift Card. Thats why I was leaning towards 8GB ram as this pc isnt a gaming pc but more office style and some games if cousins come over. 

Diamond Cube https://pcpartpicker.com/b/wvPscf 

Diamond 2.0 The FX Rev 2.0 http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Z6sMLk

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That i3 is ivy bridge already. 

Try to get an i5 Ivy Bridge. Possibly 3570k, that was a good CPU and won't bottleneck even a titan.

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The CPU isn't that big of a deal, about where an FX 6 core is in terms of gaming performance (maybe a tiny bit slower.)

 

A G3258 implies a new motherboard, and the i3 will still be as good for gaming.

Its still bad. FX 6 is bad, this i3 is bad. Im talking about gaming. For general use and average gaming this i3 is great but in lot of games its bottleneck. If I were this guy I would upgrade to i5 first.

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Honestly not a lot. Probably $70 + $10 Best Buy Gift Card. Thats why I was leaning towards 8GB ram as this pc isnt a gaming pc but more office style and some games if cousins come over. 

The RAM sounds like the most worthwhile upgrade so far. GTA V's minimum requirements state a Core 2 Quad or Phenom X4 with 4GB RAM and an HD4870 (which is slower than the GTX 550 Ti.) With that, get another 4GB DIMM and you should be fine.

Main Rig: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) KLEVV CRAS XR RGB DDR4-3600 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX | Storage: 512GB SKHynix PC401, 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, 2x Micron 1100 256GB SATA SSDs | GPU: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra 10GB | Cooling: ThermalTake Floe 280mm w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 3 | Case: Sliger SM580 (Black) | PSU: Lian Li SP 850W

 

Server: CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) Crucial DDR4 Pro | Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS AC-HES | Storage: 128GB Samsung PM961, 4TB Seagate IronWolf | GPU: AMD FirePro WX 3100 | Cooling: EK-AIO Elite 360 D-RGB | Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow (White) | PSU: Seasonic Focus GM-850

 

Miscellaneous: Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro (i5-8500T/16GB/512GB), Lenovo ThinkCentre M715q Tiny (R5 2400GE/16GB/256GB), Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF (i5-6400/8GB/128GB)

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The RAM sounds like the most worthwhile upgrade so far. GTA V's minimum requirements state a Core 2 Quad or Phenom X4 with 4GB RAM and an HD4870 (which is slower than the GTX 550 Ti.) With that, get another 4GB DIMM and you should be fine.

Thanks for the advice. 

Diamond Cube https://pcpartpicker.com/b/wvPscf 

Diamond 2.0 The FX Rev 2.0 http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Z6sMLk

The only Ryce that can Make It Shine Gamer plus a Student Games,Tech,and everything in Between. Showing all Love to@victoriajustice

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