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Cawex
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Hello, i was searching around to found out what my best options we're with a new PC, if i should switch out some of the things in the current one, or just buy a new one, till i found this forum, and thought i would ask for some help. I currently have 2 pcs, 1 old, and 1 abit older. i would like to upgrade them both, and i was thinking i would take the compontents from the "newer" PC and put the into the older, if possible with Motherboard etc. Or should i just buy a new one, and toss the oldest one out?

 

Pc1 specs "The newer one":

CPU: Intel i5-3570 3,40ghz

Moterboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.  P8H61-M LX

Memory: 2x Kingston Blu DDR3 KHX1600C9D3/4G

Storage: Western Digital WD5000AAKX-001CA0

Video Card:  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

Power Supply: Inter-Tech SL-700 - 700W

 

Pc2 specs "The older one":

CPU: Intel i5-750 @ 2,67ghz

Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P7H55-M

Memory: 2x Corsair xms3 2GB

Storage:I'm not totally sure what storage is in it, but i think its Western Digital WD5000AAKX-001CA0 as above, but not certian

Video card: AMD Radeon HD 5700 Series

Power supply:Corsair TX750W (After reading a bit on the forum this seems a bit overkill, as far as i can understand?)

 

I think this is all, I'm sorry if i posted wrong, or stated something obvious, I'm not really a hardware guy myself. Hope someone can give me some advice.

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Well that i5 3570 can run a pretty decent card without bottlenecking it so i would get the gtx 570 to the older one and upgrade the graphics on the newer one.

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Power Supply: Inter-Tech SL-700 - 700W

Erm...that's quite the nice no name PSU you have there...

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What? As I said, there seriously is nothing here :) 

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Erm...that's quite the nice no name PSU you have there...

Gotta give the no names, a chance sometimes right?? I honestly dont remeber where i got it from though, or why i got it.

 

Well that i5 3570 can run a pretty decent card without bottlenecking it so i would get the gtx 570 to the older one and upgrade the graphics on the newer one.

Yeah thats what i've been thinking aswell, just wasent sure if everything would fit together, any recommendations on graphic cards?

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I'm also thinking more RAM to both computers, can i fit the ram from the newer PC into the old one? 

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Gotta give the no names, a chance sometimes right?? I honestly dont remeber where i got it from though, or why i got it.

 

Yeah thats what i've been thinking aswell, just wasent sure if everything would fit together, any recommendations on graphic cards?

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I'm also thinking more RAM to both computers, can i fit the ram from the newer PC into the old one? 

What is your budget for the graphics card.

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Gotta give the no names, a chance sometimes right?? I honestly dont remeber where i got it from though, or why i got it.

Throw that PSU away. 

Put some money in something like 960. It's worth it. (But I'm an nVidia fanboy, go with AMD) ;)

I need S340. But more Define S'ish

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Oh yeah, by the way, over kill PSUs are actually better as all PSUs are most efficient at 50% load also, they can last through more upgrade cycles and PSUs degrade over time therefore they won't be able to always give you the advertised wattage.

Looking at my signature are we now? Well too bad there's nothing here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What? As I said, there seriously is nothing here :) 

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Around 250$ +- i would think

R9 380x would be your card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202183&cm_re=r9_380x-_-14-202-183-_-Product

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CPU: i7-5820k @ 4.4GHz Motherboard: Asus X99 Strix  Graphics Card: Gigabyte 980Ti G1 Gaming Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury 24GB (3x 8GB) Hard Drive: 1TB WD Green SSD: Samsung 950 Pro 250GB CPU Cooling: Corsair H100i Power Supply: EVGA G2 850W Case: Corsair 400c Mouse: Logitech G502 Keyboard: Asus Strix (mx reds)  Monitor: BenQ XL2730Z 1440p@144hz OS: Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit Laptops: Lenovo Y50-70: i7-4720HQ - 16GB RAM - 256GB SSD - GTX 960m 4GB - MacBook Pro (Early 2016) 2,0GHz i5 - 8GB Ram - 256GB SSD Phone: iPhone 7+

 

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Around 250$ +- i would think

Best GPU if you have 250 would be a 380x but that defiantly requires a PSU upgrade as well...but in a way, I'm inclined to say if you swap the two PSUs around, you should be fine?

Looking at my signature are we now? Well too bad there's nothing here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What? As I said, there seriously is nothing here :) 

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Best GPU if you have 250 would be a 380x but that defiantly requires a PSU upgrade as well...but in a way, I'm inclined to say if you swap the two PSUs around, you should be fine?

 

 

Thanks till both of you! That was also good to know with the PSU.

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