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Upgrade Path. Will it work?

Loeffner
By Loeffner
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Hello everyone,

 

I have asked several questions here and finally I came up with a beta version of my new PC.

 

The GPU is actually the Sapphire R9 390x Nitro (I couldn't find it on PCPP)

 

 
Power Supply: SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (€144.90 @ Caseking) 
Total: €144.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-22 12:05 CET+0100

 

Now I don't have that much money right now. 

I could probably buy everything in like 2 - 3 Months.

 

But i wondered: would it be possible to only guy the GPU and let it run in my old system. 

 

It looks like this.

 
CPU Cooler: Scythe Mugen 4 79.0 CFM CPU Cooler  (€47.49 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Memory: Mushkin Silverline 2GB (1 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  (€17.88 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Memory: Mushkin Silverline 2GB (1 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  (€17.88 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Total: €83.25
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-22 12:19 CET+0100

 

Will the CPU and RAM bottleneck? I acutally have 4x2 GB of this RAM but either the MB is broken or the RAM as it always said (2 years ago, when I last used it) that 4GB are reserved and it can only use 4GB

So I could already have a working System and in a few months (or more if it runs well) I will buy a new CPU, MB and RAM.

 

What do you think?

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I would recommend getting new ram, just find a cheap set 2x4 sticks, ram doesn't really show any performance increasing so you should be fine there.

the 390x should run fine as long as u don't overclock on the 550w.

the i5 should also be fine as it is a quad core. 

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I would recommend getting new ram, just find a cheap set 2x4 sticks, ram doesn't really show any performance increasing so you should be fine there.

the 390x should run fine as long as u don't overclock on the 550w.

the i5 should also be fine as it is a quad core. 

 

Could you recommend me some ram that will work well with that board?

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€189.62 @ Amazon Deutschland)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo 43.1 CFM CPU Cooler  (€22.85 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Motherboard: MSI H97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (€86.49 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (€46.82 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€51.45 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 390X 8GB Video Card  (€464.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  (€69.90 @ Caseking)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (€109.90 @ Caseking)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN851ND 802.11b/g/n PCI Wi-Fi Adapter
Total: €1042.02
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-22 13:54 CET+0100

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