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Help Deciding What to Upgrade

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I have a desktop that I use with 2 Samsung Displays. I use it mostly for school work and light gaming currently, but I was to upgrade it to be a gaming machine.

 

I am wondering what parts would be the most effective to make this machine better at gaming (budget of $400-500)

 

Current Specs:

Rosewill Micro-ATX Case with 400W Power Supply

Asus P8B75-M LGA1155 Motherboard

Intel Pentium Dual Core G2030 (Stock Cooler)

Nvidia NVS310

8GB (4GB x 2) Kingston 1333MHz DDR3

SanDisk SSD Plus 120 GB SSD

1 TB WD Blue

 

External:

3 TB Seagate USB 3.0 Drive

USB Wifi Adapter

Corsair Raptor K30

Corsair M65

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imo i would upgrade to a used 1155 i5/i7 and get a used gpu

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you're not gonna be doing that much crazy gaming on a Pentium (CS:GO, League, Dota, would all be fine)

 

So I would say get a new PSU at least 500W, get a new processor, and the best GPU you can afford.  Remember not to waste too much of your budget on the processor because the GPU is where the majority of the money should go.

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These. 

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-power-supply-100b10500kr

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-SuperClocked-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-760-2GB-GDDR5-Video-Card-/161822547729?hash=item25ad601f11

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-i5-2500K-3-3-GHz-Quad-Core-CM8062300833803-Processor-/281793749425?hash=item419c3761b1

Or find people selling the same parts. Just make sure they are tested or take returns on ebay. 

Fine you want the PSU tier list? Have the PSU tier list: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1116640-psu-tier-list-40-rev-103/

 

Stille (Desktop)

Ryzen 9 3900XT@4.5Ghz - Cryorig H7 Ultimate - 16GB Vengeance LPX 3000Mhz- MSI RTX 3080 Ti Ventus 3x OC - SanDisk Plus 480GB - Crucial MX500 500GB - Intel 660P 1TB SSD - (2x) WD Red 2TB - EVGA G3 650w - Corsair 760T

Evoo Gaming 15"
i7-9750H - 16GB DDR4 - GTX 1660Ti - 480GB SSD M.2 - 1TB 2.5" BX500 SSD 

VM + NAS Server (ProxMox 6.3)

1x Xeon E5-2690 v2  - 92GB ECC DDR3 - Quadro 4000 - Dell H310 HBA (Flashed with IT firmware) -500GB Crucial MX500 (Proxmox Host) Kingston 128GB SSD (FreeNAS dev/ID passthrough) - 8x4TB Toshiba N300 HDD

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