Upgrading my old PC

[doudi]

Hi guys, been watching some LTT videos some long time now and surfing the forums a lot as well.

I have and old PC that I'm trying to turn into a cheap gaming setup at 1366x768 resolution. The reason why I want to do this is because I want to build me a decent PC to play mostly DOTA 2 on and maybe some csgo here and there and if I can,even at low to medium settings, play battlefield 4 on. And please I just want an affordable upgrade now as I really need a new laptop this summer,regardless of what laptop i get since it's not the subject,but however, I will definitely buy a beastly gaming PC by next summer, so I just want a decent PC to mostly play DOTA 2 and surf the web and do some basic casual computer usage daily since my five years old laptop is failing me. The upgrade I have in mind is buying an ASUS B81m-C, intel plentiful G3240,8GB of Kingston RAM at 1600MH,and last but not least an MSI gaming 750ti twin frozer.i have limited hardware availability in my country and it's a bit costly, so the components I just listed cost around a maximum of 400$,which is kind of my maximum budget now and I really want the upgrade soon. My main concerns are : will the gtx 750ti be remarkable over the 750 I'm consider as well since it costs 165$ vs the 199$ for the ti, knowing that I'll be using the screen resolution i mentioned, and will a 400W psu work fine since they cost a bit more than expected for psus, and if you're asking, I have a little knowledge about that psu,it reads p4 400W on the side, and I'm guessing that it's brand is as written board-x.any kind of help will be appreciated and please consider my conditions that I mentioned since I can't get a high end PC currently and hardware is limited a bit in my country, and I want a PC to play DOTA 2 on if you're considering telling me to buy a next gen console. Thank you for any further help and advice.

[erty176]

Hi guys, been watching some LTT videos some long time now and surfing the forums a lot as well.

I have and old PC that I'm trying to turn into a cheap gaming setup at 1366x768 resolution. The reason why I want to do this is because I want to build me a decent PC to play mostly DOTA 2 on and maybe some csgo here and there and if I can,even at low to medium settings, play battlefield 4 on. And please I just want an affordable upgrade now as I really need a new laptop this summer,regardless of what laptop i get since it's not the subject,but however, I will definitely buy a beastly gaming PC by next summer, so I just want a decent PC to mostly play DOTA 2 and surf the web and do some basic casual computer usage daily since my five years old laptop is failing me. The upgrade I have in mind is buying an ASUS B81m-C, intel plentiful G3240,8GB of Kingston RAM at 1600MH,and last but not least an MSI gaming 750ti twin frozer.i have limited hardware availability in my country and it's a bit costly, so the components I just listed cost around a maximum of 400$,which is kind of my maximum budget now and I really want the upgrade soon. My main concerns are : will the gtx 750ti be remarkable over the 750 I'm consider as well since it costs 165$ vs the 199$ for the ti, knowing that I'll be using the screen resolution i mentioned, and will a 400W psu work fine since they cost a bit more than expected for psus, and if you're asking, I have a little knowledge about that psu,it reads p4 400W on the side, and I'm guessing that it's brand is as written board-x.any kind of help will be appreciated and please consider my conditions that I mentioned since I can't get a high end PC currently and hardware is limited a bit in my country, and I want a PC to play DOTA 2 on if you're considering telling me to buy a next gen console. Thank you for any further help and advice.

the upgrade you are talking about, are you going to use those parts to upgrade later? or are you going to totally rebuild the system later.

[AFlyingBuffalo]

 

 

The 750ti has 2GB of VRAM which will help a lot in games like BF4 and the Pentium should be fine but it might hold back performance in a game like BF4. A 400w power supply should be enough. Could you make a PCPartPicker link to make it easier to read this with the parts you've chosen? Also remember to follow your topics to see all the replies you get.

[Goldensapling]

Looks good, but spend the extra $10 on the Pentium G3258. Also, the 750 will work for DOTA and CSGO, but if you're looking to play games like BF4 you should get the 750ti.

[doudi]

I am willing to upgrade my old PC with those parts, I have a full system I just want to swap out the Motherboard ram gpu and CPU as I have a case and a 7200rpm 500gb hdd by seagate, but next summer I will just get a totally new system. I can sacrifice bf4 but I just wanted to give it a shot. As for the pcpartoicker list, I'm getting the parts from a local shop, also the g3258 isn't available where I live, and I guess I will buy the gtx 750ti for around 40$ more, but I am worried that my psu won't be compatible but I think that the gpu doesn't require a power connector, so can I connect all the power cables required for the system to boot. And thank you all for the fast replies and I will stay in touch for replying to your advices.