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Hello all, I have come up with a little extra cash and was thinking about upgrading my PC. I am currently running the Amd Phenom II x4 on the Asus M4A87tD Evo motherboard. My graphics card is the Iceq Ati Radeon HD 4670 and the ram is Adata Gaming series ddr3 4gb. My PSU is a corsair 650 watt.

 

MB- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131647

CPU- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808

RAM- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211409

GPU- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161287

PSU- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139020

 

 

I mostly play indie games on my PC, but I would like to upgrade it so I can play some of the newer games out. For example Witcher 3 and other triple A titles,plus Fallout 4 when that comes out. 

 

What I would like everyone opinion on is if I upgrade my Graphics card to say a gtx 750ti or the radeon 270 or maybe something even more powerfull, would my cpu be a bottle neck for the upgraded graphics. I read something about the Phenom II x4 C3 version can overclock well and I am pretty sure I have that version. So if I get a better cooler (running OEM right now) and overclock it would that help. Also is my MB even capable of overclocking easily.

 

I would also like to upgrade the ram. Since I can no longer buy that specific ram would it be better to just pull my ram out and get a newer kit or would it be easy to find a compatible set that would work with my Ram.

 

 Thank you everyone for your help.

 

Also I am still kind of a noob when it comes to pc parts even though I built my computer over 4 years ago, I just dont follow the community that closely.

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Hello all, I have come up with a little extra cash and was thinking about upgrading my PC. I am currently running the Amd Phenom II x4 on the Asus M4A87tD Evo motherboard. My graphics card is the Iceq Ati Radeon HD 4670 and the ram is Adata Gaming series ddr3 4gb. My PSU is a corsair 650 watt.

 

MB- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131647

CPU- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808

RAM- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211409

GPU- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161287

PSU- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139020

 

 

I mostly play indie games on my PC, but I would like to upgrade it so I can play some of the newer games out. For example Witcher 3 and other triple A titles,plus Fallout 4 when that comes out. 

 

What I would like everyone opinion on is if I upgrade my Graphics card to say a gtx 750ti or the radeon 270 or maybe something even more powerfull, would my cpu be a bottle neck for the upgraded graphics. I read something about the Phenom II x4 C3 version can overclock well and I am pretty sure I have that version. So if I get a better cooler (running OEM right now) and overclock it would that help. Also is my MB even capable of overclocking easily.

 

I would also like to upgrade the ram. Since I can no longer buy that specific ram would it be better to just pull my ram out and get a newer kit or would it be easy to find a compatible set that would work with my Ram.

 

 Thank you everyone for your help.

 

Also I am still kind of a noob when it comes to pc parts even though I built my computer over 4 years ago, I just dont follow the community that closely.

 

I have a Phenom II X4 965 running in a system right now with a 7870, it's a decent pairing with no bottlenecking so far. I imagine you could probably go as high as an R9 280X but beyond that I'm more than positive it'll heavily bottleneck.

 

Good CPU to have even now, they're tough little chips and with the right motherboard and cooling they'll OC pretty well.

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Hello all, I have come up with a little extra cash and was thinking about upgrading my PC. I am currently running the Amd Phenom II x4 on the Asus M4A87tD Evo motherboard. My graphics card is the Iceq Ati Radeon HD 4670 and the ram is Adata Gaming series ddr3 4gb. My PSU is a corsair 650 watt.

 

MB- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131647

CPU- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808

RAM- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211409

GPU- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161287

PSU- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139020

 

 

I mostly play indie games on my PC, but I would like to upgrade it so I can play some of the newer games out. For example Witcher 3 and other triple A titles,plus Fallout 4 when that comes out. 

 

What I would like everyone opinion on is if I upgrade my Graphics card to say a gtx 750ti or the radeon 270 or maybe something even more powerfull, would my cpu be a bottle neck for the upgraded graphics. I read something about the Phenom II x4 C3 version can overclock well and I am pretty sure I have that version. So if I get a better cooler (running OEM right now) and overclock it would that help. Also is my MB even capable of overclocking easily.

 

I would also like to upgrade the ram. Since I can no longer buy that specific ram would it be better to just pull my ram out and get a newer kit or would it be easy to find a compatible set that would work with my Ram.

 

 Thank you everyone for your help.

 

Also I am still kind of a noob when it comes to pc parts even though I built my computer over 4 years ago, I just dont follow the community that closely.

Hi,

judging from your current setup I would definitely suggest upgrading your ram to a new 8 GB kit. 16GB would be overkill considering your current processor. I am not sure about overclocking for amd processors (I am an intel kinda guy), but you might be able to do something there. If you don't currently have a SSD that might also be a good thing to add to your setup. It will speed up loading times  for both windows and games dramatically. I would also recommend maybe picking up a used 280X, they go for around 100$ on ebay. Obviously depends on you budget. If you have around 300$ to spend, it maybe worth investing in a LGA 1150 MB with a Intel Pentium Anniversary Edition. They are really cheap and offer you the upgrade option to an i5 or even i7, in addition, even though the specs look shit on paper, it overclocks like a beast with proper cooling up to around 4.5 GHz. If you pair that with ~70$ Z87 MB, you have a great basis to add more powerful hardware later.

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