Need help upgrading

[Finatiik_]

Hey guys, I currently have a pretty mediocre office/home pc that I bought about a year or so ago. I want to get it up to a decent standard to be able to play some games I have such as sniper elite 2, battlefield 3 and rust. I have £200 ($300 USD) to spend and my specs are as follows:

 

CPU: AMD A6 5400K @3.6 GHz (stock)

Cooler: Stock 

Motherboard: HP stock w/ wifi 802.11n/b/g

RAM: Samsung 1x6gb @1333 MHz

GPU: NVIDIA gt620 1gb 

HDD: Samsung 1TB 7200rpm 

PSU: Noname 300w

Case: HP stock w/ 1 rear exhaust fan

 

 

That's pretty much it, I would like to know what you guys think I should upgrade, as I was going to go for:

GPU: Gigabyte r9 270x

Case: Fractal Design Core 1300 or 2300

PSU: Corsair CX430W 

 

Which is bang on £200- anything you would change? Thanks!

[Guest]

GPU and PSU need upgrading

 

PSU

 

GPU

[Finatiik_]

GPU and PSU need upgrading

 

PSU

 

GPU

Neither of those would fit in the stock case, and are completely over budget.

[techguru]

that computer is pretty much usless..its an oem pc

does it even have a pci-express slot?

[techguru]

I have a feeling that board won't even fit properly in an atx standard case

HP customizes there stuff too much

[Misanthrope]

You should bump up your CPU and GPU it will make a ton of difference. If you wanna keep the same motherboard go for the 6800k since it's a quad core at 4.0ghz so it will help (though not as much as a platform change)

 

The GPU the best you can afford, really almost anything is better than that GPU. 750ti or a 960 if your budget allows.

 

On the long run however, you really need a new PSU. Like, badly. And FM2 as a platform will never get you more than 4 weak cores which is significant since even an intel dual core will match and surpass even the best APU so you should be looking at 1150 instead.

[stconquest]

idk...

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card  (£161.95 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: be quiet! POWER 2 400W 80+ Bronze Certified SFX Power Supply  (£52.75 @ Dabs)
Total: £214.70
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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[Finatiik_]

that computer is pretty much usless..its an oem pc

does it even have a pci-express slot?

Yeah the mobo has 1  pci-e 16x and 3 pci-e 4 or 1x (can't remember off the top of my head)

[techguru]

well your upgrade...if the board will fit in the case..isn't too bad

tho change the corsair psu to a seasonic one..450w or a xfx one