Help me upgrade, please

[jwilliams190800]

Hi there,

I've had an Acer Aspire TC-220 desktop pc for almost a year now (Item Description) and I'm getting to a point where the Radeon R5 235 isn't a good enough Graphics Card for the games that I want to play, such as Fallout 4 and the Witcher 3. Currently, my pc runs Arkham City at about 23 fps (pitiful, I know).

I wanted to upgrade the graphics card in my computer so I decided to take a look inside my case. It turns out that the R5 235 card doesn't have its own power connections and is only connected to the PCI Express. The powers supply is in a cage so that you can't add anything to it (it's only 220W anyway).

My question is this:

What should I do? Should I buy a new power supply and upgrade my current pc, should I cannibalise this pc (only the HDD, CPU, RAM and other drives) into a new one that I build, or sell this pc and get a new pre-built pc?

Thank you for your help

[UnlimitedTMD]

Get a beefier PSU and after that get a GPU, the other stuff looks pretty decent

[GirlFromYonder]

5 minutes ago, jwilliams190800 said:

Hi there,

I've had an Acer Aspire TC-220 desktop pc for almost a year now (Item Description) and I'm getting to a point where the Radeon R5 235 isn't a good enough Graphics Card for the games that I want to play, such as Fallout 4 and the Witcher 3. Currently, my pc runs Arkham City at about 23 fps (pitiful, I know).

I wanted to upgrade the graphics card in my computer so I decided to take a look inside my case. It turns out that the R5 235 card doesn't have its own power connections and is only connected to the PCI Express. The powers supply is in a cage so that you can't add anything to it (it's only 220W anyway).

My question is this:

What should I do? Should I buy a new power supply and upgrade my current pc, should I cannibalise this pc (only the HDD, CPU, RAM and other drives) into a new one that I build, or sell this pc and get a new pre-built pc?

Thank you for your help

sell it and build one YOURSELF

[zehao39]

for gaming this PC is clearly not good enough. I don't know if that is a customer power supply in the case. You may not able to change a new one. What is budget. So we can come up some idea

[GirlFromYonder]

7 minutes ago, jwilliams190800 said:

Hi there,

I've had an Acer Aspire TC-220 desktop pc for almost a year now (Item Description) and I'm getting to a point where the Radeon R5 235 isn't a good enough Graphics Card for the games0 that I want to play, such as Fallout 4 and the Witcher 3. Currently, my pc runs Arkham City at about 23 fps (pitiful, I know).

I wanted to upgrade the graphics card in my computer so I decided to take a look inside my case. It turns out that the R5 235 card doesn't have its own power connections and is only connected to the PCI Express. The powers supply is in a cage so that you can't add anything to it (it's only 220W anyway).

My question is this:

What should I do? Should I buy a new power supply and upgrade my current pc, should I cannibalise this pc (only the HDD, CPU, RAM and other drives) into a new one that I build, or sell this pc and get a new pre-built pc?

Thank you for your help

or if u dont have the money what for the rx460 or get a gtx 950 75w

[zehao39]

14 minutes ago, jwilliams190800 said:

Hi there,

I've had an Acer Aspire TC-220 desktop pc for almost a year now (Item Description) and I'm getting to a point where the Radeon R5 235 isn't a good enough Graphics Card for the games that I want to play, such as Fallout 4 and the Witcher 3. Currently, my pc runs Arkham City at about 23 fps (pitiful, I know).

I wanted to upgrade the graphics card in my computer so I decided to take a look inside my case. It turns out that the R5 235 card doesn't have its own power connections and is only connected to the PCI Express. The powers supply is in a cage so that you can't add anything to it (it's only 220W anyway).

My question is this:

What should I do? Should I buy a new power supply and upgrade my current pc, should I cannibalise this pc (only the HDD, CPU, RAM and other drives) into a new one that I build, or sell this pc and get a new pre-built pc?

Thank you for your help

for fallout 4 and witch 3 you may need something powerful. May be like a 960 or 770. And at least a i5-2xxx CPU. Few month ago I built my personal PC for i5-2400and gtx770,it cost me around 450$(usd).show us you budget we can try to help you built a best value pc

[jwilliams190800]

1 hour ago, UnlimitedTMD said:

Get a beefier PSU and after that get a GPU, the other stuff looks pretty decent

This is one of my options, my birthday's coming up soon and I've just had a load of exams, my results and birthday should hopefully give me enough money to upgrade both of these components. However, my problem is that I'm not sure which version of PCIe my PC uses, so I'm not sure what GPU I can actually get

[jwilliams190800]

1 hour ago, DeezNoNos said:

sell it and build one YOURSELF

I would, but I know that with the amount of money I have, I wouldn't be happy with it

[zehao39]

Just now, jwilliams190800 said:

This is one of my options, my birthday's coming up soon and I've just had a load of exams, my results and birthday should hopefully give me enough money to upgrade both of these components. However, my problem is that I'm not sure which version of PCIe my PC uses, so I'm not sure what GPU I can actually get

do not worry about the pcie they are all about the same. Depend how much money you have we can decide what gpu you can get. If you are short of money get a gtx960, if not get a gtx970 or rx480

[jwilliams190800]

1 hour ago, zehao39 said:

for gaming this PC is clearly not good enough. I don't know if that is a customer power supply in the case. You may not able to change a new one. What is budget. So we can come up some idea

 

1 hour ago, zehao39 said:

for fallout 4 and witch 3 you may need something powerful. May be like a 960 or 770. And at least a i5-2xxx CPU. Few month ago I built my personal PC for i5-2400and gtx770,it cost me around 450$(usd).show us you budget we can try to help you built a best value pc

If I were to sell this PC, I'd get £100GBP at most, should hopefully get £300-ish in the near future which would give me a budget of £400GBP which is around $520USD, I'd quite like to get an RX 480 in there, but I'm aware that that would account for over half of my budget, they're about £230 here.

[jwilliams190800]

1 hour ago, DeezNoNos said:

or if u dont have the money what for the rx460 or get a gtx 950 75w

Is there a price announced for the rx460?

[jwilliams190800]

1 minute ago, zehao39 said:

do not worry about the pcie they are all about the same. Depend how much money you have we can decide what gpu you can get. If you are short of money get a gtx960, if not get a gtx970 or rx480

This was the option I was looking at. Do prebuilt PCs ever come with any sort of way to block the user from upgrading the PC?

[zehao39]

no. I don't think they block you upgrade you PC. Just make sure you have a enough room for a rx480 and the power supply is the standard. 300 euro are good enough for you to get a 480 and 500w power supply.lets me know if you have more questions

[jwilliams190800]

1 minute ago, zehao39 said:

no. I don't think they block you upgrade you PC. Just make sure you have a enough room for a rx480 and the power supply is the standard. 300 euro are good enough for you to get a 480 and 500w power supply.lets me know if you have more questions

Okay, thank you very much

[zehao39]

oh there is one more thing that you cpu may bottleneck you new graphic card. And if you do not have enough money get a used gtx970 it is around 180$

[jwilliams190800]

1 minute ago, zehao39 said:

oh there is one more thing that you cpu may bottleneck you new graphic card. And if you do not have enough money get a used gtx970 it is around 180$

I should be able to afford an RX480 and 500W PSU, but my CPU is an A10-7800. Is there a better FM2+ CPU you could recommend?

[zehao39]

2 minutes ago, jwilliams190800 said:

I should be able to afford an RX480 and 500W PSU, but my CPU is an A10-7800. Is there a better FM2+ CPU you could recommend?

not really know amd CPU. But i think for the money you have. the A10-7800can make the Job done. It may bottleneck in few games but I think fallout4 and witch3 will be fine

[jwilliams190800]

1 minute ago, zehao39 said:

not really know amd CPU. But i think for the money you have. the A10-7800can make the Job done. It may bottleneck in few games but I think fallout4 and witch3 will be fine

Thank you very much for your help

[GirlFromYonder]

29 minutes ago, zehao39 said:

not really know amd CPU. But i think for the money you have. the A10-7800can make the Job done. It may bottleneck in few games but I think fallout4 and witch3 will be fine

but does are cpu instensive

[jwilliams190800]

 

1 minute ago, DeezNoNos said:

but does are cpu instensive

I think having a new GPU will affect my performance a lot in a good way, so I'll do that first, but I will look at getting a new CPU

[GirlFromYonder]

3 minutes ago, jwilliams190800 said:

 

I think having a new GPU will affect my performance a lot in a good way, so I'll do that first, but I will look at getting a new CPU

But from what u have right now, u will still see a fps boost. my 2cents buy the gpu and wait for zen

[zehao39]

Just now, DeezNoNos said:

But from what u have right now, u will still see a fps boost. my 2cents buy the gpu and wait for zen

I do not think the Zen will have the same sockets. But sure the price should be cheaper than

[jwilliams190800]

11 minutes ago, zehao39 said:

I do not think the Zen will have the same sockets. But sure the price should be cheaper than

 

13 minutes ago, DeezNoNos said:

But from what u have right now, u will still see a fps boost. my 2cents buy the gpu and wait for zen

Can I ask what the Zen is?

[GirlFromYonder]

1 minute ago, jwilliams190800 said:

 

Can I ask what the Zen is?

amds new processor line up releasing in decemeber at least it is supposed to

[zehao39]

Just now, DeezNoNos said:

amds new processor line up releasing in decemeber at least it is supposed to

will the Zen sockets be Arm3＋