Small PC-Upgrade

[SiriousArts]

Hey Guys

I thought you might be able to help me decide, how to upgrade my Current PC.

 

My Goal:

As the performance of my current, quite old PC more and more is a pain in the ass, I thought about upgrading it for a few bucks until I get a completely new PC in a few months.

My goal is not to spend a lot of money on trying to transform it into a gaming beast, but to maybe get some slightly better (used) parts for 50-100$ to make the time until I have the money to afford my new PC less painfull. I think finding better parts than my current ones on a low budget shouldnt be a huge problem

Can you please help me to find some parts, that should increase the performance for my main uses and that are compatible with my current system?

 

My PC:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 925 @ 2.81 GHz

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5670

Motherboard: MEDIONPC MS-7646 (Specs: http://prntscr.com/90lqtc)

Memory: 8192 MB DDR3 SDRAM 669MHz

HDD: WD 1TB 7200RPM

Monitors:

24" 1920x1080 60Hz

17" 1280x1024 60Hz

 

Just let me know if you need any additional Info on my setup and I will update it ASAP.

Usage:

- Mainly Graphic design (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver (all of them CC)) --> Ideally, larger projects should cause less laggs after the upgrade

- Some Video and Audio Editing (Premiere Pro, Audition (CC aswell)) --> Shorter render times would be great

- Light gaming (LoL, Fifa, Borderlands, Payday 1+2, Rocket League, Dead Island (...)) --> Most of them currently run on low graphics, Something like medium would be great

- Browsing etc.

 

Benchmarks: /edit will replace those, as i made some mistakes benchmarking

[Shimejii]

Why not just save your money and get the best possible new pc you can buy? It would make more sense that wasting money on this until you buy it as you said you were going to do in a few months anway

[A Guy Eating Cereal]

Hey Guys

I thought you might be able to help me decide, how to upgrade my Current PC.

 

My Goal:

As the performance of my current, quite old PC more and more is a pain in the ass, I thought about upgrading it for a few bucks until I get a completely new PC in a few months.

My goal is not to spend a lot of money on trying to transform it into a gaming beast, but to maybe get some slightly better (used) parts for 50-100$ to make the time until I have the money to afford my new PC less painfull. I think finding better parts than my current ones on a low budget shouldnt be a huge problem

Can you please help me to find some parts, that should increase the performance for my main uses and that are compatible with my current system?

 

My PC:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 925 @ 2.81 GHz

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5670

Motherboard: MEDIONPC MS-7646 (Specs: http://prntscr.com/90lqtc)

Memory: 8192 MB DDR3 SDRAM 669MHz

HDD: WD 1TB 7200RPM

Monitors:

24" 1920x1080 60Hz

17" 1280x1024 60Hz

 

Just let me know if you need any additional Info on my setup and I will update it ASAP.

Usage:

- Mainly Graphic design (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver (all of them CC)) --> Ideally, larger projects should cause less laggs after the upgrade

- Some Video and Audio Editing (Premiere Pro, Audition (CC aswell)) --> Shorter render times would be great

- Light gaming (LoL, Fifa, Borderlands, Payday 1+2, Rocket League, Dead Island (...)) --> Most of them currently run on low graphics, Something like medium would be great

- Browsing etc.

 

 

 

As said above, dont bother and spend money on a new build. You will get much better performance from a new build than an old upgrade!

[alexhelvetica]

Replace the GPU and PSU also get an SSD.

Something like a R7 260, 120GB SSD and an EVGA B2 would be a good upgrade.

 

OC that CPU lots.

[SiriousArts]

Replace the GPU and PSU also get an SSD.

Something like a R7 260, 120GB SSD and an EVGA B2 would be a good upgrade.

 

OC that CPU lots.

Is that possible with my current Motherboard?! Wouldn't know it supports OC..

[alexhelvetica]

Is that possible with my current Motherboard?! Wouldn't know it supports OC..

Now shit is getting expensive.

 

Try, if it doesn't work you'll just get a slight bottleneck (Not much) and if the OC works, you are set for a while.