Need Help / Advice on Upgrading

[erichobo]

I have had my current machine for around 2 years and it has done me justice so far.

 

(Please keep in mind I was on a very, very, very limted budget when I built this machine.)

 

 

Case: NZXT M59

RAM: 4gb Corsair Ripjaws

CPU: Intel Pentium G2120 (LGA1155)

Motherboard: ASRock H77

Graphics Card: HIS iCooler Radeon HD 7750

Power Supply: Corsair CX-430M

OS: Windows 7 Professional x32

Hard Drives: -Western Digital (9883 power-on hours) & Seagate Barracuda (712 power-on hours)

 

 

My main question is; would it be logical to upgrade CPU sockets to something newer, more managebale, and decently cheap. And if yes, what CPU/socket do you reccomend? Also, any good (and reasonably priced) graphics cards that you could reccomend would be nice aswell.

 

I know my other components are not the best, but I don't do THAT heavy of gaming. Just the basic FPS and simulator games.

 

 

[Hackentosher]

Get a used z87 board (lga 1150), another 4gb of ram, replace that WD drive (9883 powered on hours?!? the real question is how it hasn't blown up yet), and get a g3258. Overclock that shit to a nice 4.2ghz or more and go ham.

[SPAS-ID]

Get a used z87 board (lga 1150), another 4gb of ram, replace that WD drive (9883 powered on hours?!? the real question is how it hasn't blown up yet), and get a g3258. Overclock that shit to a nice 4.2ghz or more and go ham.

why get Z87 ? coz u never heard H77 ?

[Coombzy]

Get a used z87 board (lga 1150), another 4gb of ram, replace that WD drive (9883 powered on hours?!? the real question is how it hasn't blown up yet), and get a g3258. Overclock that shit to a nice 4.2ghz or more and go ham.

I have a Seagate 500GB with 13K power on hours... they don't blow up its down to luck.

[Hackentosher]

I have a Seagate 500GB with 13K power on hours... they don't blow up its down to luck.

lol, Anything much over 1000 hours seems pretty insane to me as I don't really know that much about hard drive reliability .

[royalcrown]

If it was me, I'd go for a nice radeon 270 and replace the platters with SSDs (probably the largest performance upgrade for the $$$ you spend.) From the verylimited charts I could find, your CPU is roughly equivalent to the "i3" line. I am sure the pentium is an i3 that had something disabled or less cache. but the article I saw showed that quad cores don't gain you much speed in gaming. This makes sense as gaming doesn't scale as well to more threads, like photoshop or rendering.

 

http://techonbudget.com/desktops/intel-pentium-g2120-review

 

http://www.storagereview.com/ssd_vs_hdd 

[erichobo]

Get a used z87 board (lga 1150), another 4gb of ram, replace that WD drive (9883 powered on hours?!? the real question is how it hasn't blown up yet), and get a g3258. Overclock that shit to a nice 4.2ghz or more and go ham.

Yeah and that WD drive is my boot-up drive. I am honestly surprised how long it has lasted. It has ran Windows XP, Vista, 7 (several times), 8, and 10TP.