Low End Gaming PC low budget upgrades

ErnyNet · February 6, 2016

Hello lovely forum people,
So here's my story. A bunch of friends were upgrading there gaming rigs and left there old parts laying around, so I kindly took said parts for myself. Since I didn't have, at the time, the budget to build anything really worth the money I ended up using whatever I could find. I managed to get a computer working and running games like CS:GO and Minecraft (Not including big modpacks which I would barely load if at all) really well. That's enough to a extent however games like Space Engineer and Just Cause 3 are unplayable and that really bothers me. Now With a $300 budget I would like to start upgrading at least enough to run new gen games in low settings. However even knowing a little bit about this field (indeed thanks to Linus) I decided to consult MUCH more experienced and qualified people than myself (yes, you lovely people) to prevent wasting the money I could be spending in stuff like the food I didn't eat the past month to be able to save money for this. So to not unnecessarily extend this post further here is my current PC:

AMD Phenom II x2

ASUS Micro ATX DDR3 2000 Motherboard (AMD AM3+ CPU Socket)

EVGA Nvidia GT 730 2GB

Kit Sniper Series (2x4GB) Dual Chanel 1866MHZ DDR3
EVGA Nvidia GT 730 2GB
Corsair Builder Series CX500

Cooler Master Mid-Tower RC-K380-KWN1

Were should I start? In my budget whats the best band for my buck I can get?

Since I'm new here i would like to apologize for anything I might have missed or F up in the processes of posting this (such as posting it in the wrong place, posting something similar or outright the exact same as someone else, etc)

I'm truly sorry

And Thanks for any and all help!
-E

VinsinityKT · February 6, 2016

Maybe a FX-8350 if you don't want to switch motherboards so you can move away from that dual core. To get a better GPU, you probably need a better power supply. Then eventually a SSD. Gotta save up some money for power supply and GPU.

evilarceus · February 6, 2016

Probably should start at the CPU. The GPU is meh, but the processor is just... yuck. Cheapest compatible processor for your motherboard is the FX-4300 which is at least a quad core, but costs $80 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009O7YU3S/?tag=pcpapi-20). You can upgrade to a 750 Ti (http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-gtx750tioc2gd5) later.

SImoHayha · February 6, 2016

9 minutes ago, ErnyNet said:

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Well first off. You can piratically keep everything but the CPU and GPU. You should purchase used stuff. As last gen GPU's still hold up pretty well today.

Like here is a 7870 for 120$. It's a pretty good GPU even today. http://www.ebay.com/itm/GIGABYTE-Windforce-HD7870-GHz-Edition-2GB-High-Performance-Video-Card-/272124764260?hash=item3f5be66064:g:n5QAAOSwqrtWpnFc

And here is a easy FX-6300 which I have. Which should help ya out a bit for roughly 100$ http://www.amazon.com/AMD-FD6300WMHKBOX-FX-6300-Processor-Edition/dp/B009O7YORK