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Need to know if its worth an upgrade

Attren
By Attren
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This is a friend's of mine and the question is if its worth getting upgraded. It has a gigabyte motherboard, if anyone as any thoughts feel free to have input.

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The power supply and the GPU look pretty bad. Very dusty. I think it looks to be a small upgrade or a whole new system.

Doesnt look like there is an SSD

Main System Specs:

  • Intel Core i5 6500 3.2GHz CPU
  • Gigabyte GA-H170-D3H Motherboard
  • Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB 2400MHz, Gskill Ripjaws 8GB
  • Asus GTX 1060 Turbo
  • Kingston HyperX Savage 240GB SSD
  • Seagate 1TB NAS Grade HDD x2
  • Thermaltake NiC F3 Cooler
  • EVGA Supernova 750 G2 Power Supply
  • NZXT S340 Red/Black Case
  • Noctua NF-F12 Fan x2

Laptop Specs:

  • Intel Pentium N3700 CPU
  • 4GB Kingston RAM
  • Intel HD Graphics
  • Windows 10 Home

Peripherals:

  • Microsoft Wired 600 KB
  • Dell 2003 Mouse
  • HP Compaq LA2206x Monitor
  • Logitech X530 5.1 Speakers
  • Roland RH-5 Headphones
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Few things to talk about.

Firstly, Extremely dusty, id clean that out asap.

Looks like a chinese unbranded power supply so that might blow up if you add any components that will draw too much.

Graphics card looks measly.
Motherboard is low end

Mechanical hard drive.

 

If I was him id sell it and buy a new setup.

Quote me if you want me to reply.

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I was thinking that as well. He does need to dust which i told him he lives in an extremely dusty environment. 

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Can you tell us what specs are in the PC? Otherwise I can't really help you

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It's going to be at least a sandybridge era setup as the motherboard says USB3, but looks like either an AMD mobo or one the non over clocking Intel ones.

 

I'd say get a whole new system, and take more care of it!

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