first time built

[deathfinder]

Hello guy's

 

I recently got a pre-built pc as a gift but it wasn't powerful to run games as i wanted but it had a good CPU (intel core i7 4790 3.6ghz)

 

so i went to amazon looked up some good parts to play games in mid setting 1080p 

 

but i'm a noob when it come's to compatibility 

i don't want to order parts that are not compatible with each other

and will the CPU work and fit into the motherboard ?

so here is the list of things i want to bay

ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

PSU : EVGA 500 W1 80+
(https://amzn.com/B00H33SFJU)

 

RAM : Corsair Vengeance Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
(https://amzn.com/B008E3M4QS)

 

GPU : ASUS GeForce GTX 750Ti GDDR5 2GB Graphics Card GTX750TI-OC-2GD5
(https://amzn.com/B00IB9P1KG)

 

MOTHER BOARD : ASRock ATX DDR3 1333 LGA 1150 Motherboards FATAL1TY H97 PERFORMANCE
(https://amzn.com/B00K6JKU7S)

 

CPU : Intel core i7 4790 3.6ghz ( i already have it from the pre-built pc )

 

Hard drive : ( i already have it from the pre-built pc )

ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

and the reason why i ordered such an expensive motherboard because i live in Saudi Arabia , so amazon doesn't ship any other motherboard .

 

Note : the pre-built pc is dell optiplex 9020 mt .

 

and that's it

[MrDrWho13]

7 minutes ago, deathfinder said:

Hello guy's

 

I recently got a pre-built pc as a gift but it wasn't powerful to run games as i wanted but it had a good CPU (intel core i7 4790 3.6ghz)

 

so i went to amazon looked up some good parts to play games in mid setting 1080p 

 

but i'm a noob when it come's to compatibility 

i don't want to order parts that are not compatible with each other

and will the CPU work and fit into the motherboard ?

so here is the list of things i want to bay

ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

PSU : EVGA 500 W1 80+
(https://amzn.com/B00H33SFJU)

 

RAM : Corsair Vengeance Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
(https://amzn.com/B008E3M4QS)

 

GPU : ASUS GeForce GTX 750Ti GDDR5 2GB Graphics Card GTX750TI-OC-2GD5
(https://amzn.com/B00IB9P1KG)

 

MOTHER BOARD : ASRock ATX DDR3 1333 LGA 1150 Motherboards FATAL1TY H97 PERFORMANCE
(https://amzn.com/B00K6JKU7S)

 

CPU : Intel core i7 4790 3.6ghz ( i already have it from the pre-built pc )

 

Hard drive : ( i already have it from the pre-built pc )

ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

and the reason why i ordered such an expensive motherboard because i live in Saudi Arabia , so amazon doesn't ship any other motherboard .

 

Note : the pre-built pc is dell optiplex 9020 mt .

 

and that's it

What's wrong with the default RAM and motherboard? You could save some extra money by not getting those and get an RX480 instead of a 750ti (Or if you don't have that much a 460 or 470)

[deathfinder]

6 minutes ago, MrDrWho13 said:

What's wrong with the default RAM and motherboard? You could save some extra money by not getting those and get an RX480 instead of a 750ti (Or if you don't have that much a 460 or 470)

I know but i live where amazon doesn't ship any other motherboard so i have limited options 

 

that was all i could get but did i choose them right ?

 

not in the price but the compatibility and will the CPU fit into the chosen motherboard ? 

[MrDrWho13]

1 minute ago, deathfinder said:

I know but i live where amazon doesn't ship any other motherboard so i have limited options 

 

that was all i could get but did i choose them right ?

 

not in the price but the compatibility and will the CPU fit into the chosen motherboard ? 

What you've chosen should fit, but what I'm saying is use the motherboard and RAM from the pre-built Dell computer and use the money you saved to buy something that actually improves your performance.

[deathfinder]

7 minutes ago, MrDrWho13 said:

What you've chosen should fit, but what I'm saying is use the motherboard and RAM from the pre-built Dell computer and use the money you saved to buy something that actually improves your performance.

wait well the motherboard from the pre-built pc ( dell optiplex 9020 mt) be compatible ?

i'm sorry i'm dumb when it get's to compatibility .

[MrDrWho13]

1 minute ago, deathfinder said:

wait well the motherboard from the pre-built pc ( dell optiplex 9020 mt) be compatible ?

i'm sorry i dumb when it get's to compatibility .

Everything is standard so I can't see any problems. You can just keep the CPU, motherboard, RAM, Hard/solid state drives, and maybe the case of the Dell computer and just add a new PSU and GPU. That should work and you'll have some extra cash to spend on the GPU which is where the power is for games.

[MrDrWho13]

Oh and I found this on the Dell site:

Minitower (MT)
Dimensions (H x W x D) Inches/(cm) : 14.2 x 6.9 x 16.4 /(36.0 x 17.5 x 41.7)
Min. Weight (lbs/kg) : 20.68 / 9.4
Number of Bays : 2 internal 3.5”
2 external 5.25”
Expansion Slots : 1 full height PCIe x16   -(This means you can install a GPU)
1 full height PCIe x16 (wired x 4)
1 full height PCIe x1
1 full height PCI
Power Supply² Unit (PSU) : Standard 290W PSU Active PFC or optional 290W up to 90% Efficient PSU (80 PLUS Gold); ENERGY STAR 5.2 compliant, Active PFC  -(This probably needs to be replaced because it's only built for the lower power of the original Dell machine)

 

Is this the one you have?

 

[Castdeath97]

9 minutes ago, deathfinder said:

wait well the motherboard from the pre-built pc ( dell optiplex 9020 mt) be compatible ?

i'm sorry i dumb when it get's to compatibility .

That's why pcpartpicker.com is there to help. It checks for compatibility.

 

Anyhow on the build:

1- You are pairing a very powerful CPU with a very weak GPU, in games the GPU should be the priority. Get a i5 and a RX 480/1060.

 

2-That power supply is not great, get something better here:

3- You really don't needs 16 GBs of RAM right now, get 8GB upgrade later.

 

 

[deathfinder]

 

1 minute ago, MrDrWho13 said:

Oh and I found this on the Dell site:

Minitower (MT)
Dimensions (H x W x D) Inches/(cm) : 14.2 x 6.9 x 16.4 /(36.0 x 17.5 x 41.7)
Min. Weight (lbs/kg) : 20.68 / 9.4
Number of Bays : 2 internal 3.5”
2 external 5.25”
Expansion Slots : 1 full height PCIe x16   -(This means you can install a GPU)
1 full height PCIe x16 (wired x 4)
1 full height PCIe x1
1 full height PCI
Power Supply² Unit (PSU) : Standard 290W PSU Active PFC or optional 290W up to 90% Efficient PSU (80 PLUS Gold); ENERGY STAR 5.2 compliant, Active PFC  -(This probably needs to be replaced because it's only built for the lower power of the original Dell machine)

 

Is this the one you have?

 

Exactly 

here is a picture of it

[deathfinder]

2 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

That's why pcpartpicker.com is there to help. It checks for compatibility.

 

Anyhow on the build:

1- You are pairing a very powerful CPU with a very weak GPU, in games the GPU should be the priority. Get a i5 and a RX 480/1060.

 

2-That power supply is not great, get something better here:

3- You really don't needs 16 GBs of RAM right now, get 8GB upgrade later.

 

 

but i already have the cpu  

[Castdeath97]

Just now, deathfinder said:

but i already have the cpu  

Just use then. Can you show use the full specs of your PC, use speccy: https://www.piriform.com/speccy

[MrDrWho13]

1 minute ago, deathfinder said:

 

Exactly 

here is a picture of it

It's not the best looking by any means, but it will work. If you find your CPU getting hot, you might want to look into getting a larger cooler. To install the new GPU, you'll need to take the pre-installed one out.

[MrDrWho13]

1 minute ago, Castdeath97 said:

Just use then. Can you show use the full specs of your PC, use speccy: https://www.piriform.com/speccy

Or just type dxdiag into the start menu. (Or run menu)

[deathfinder]

1 minute ago, Castdeath97 said:

Just use then. Can you show use the full specs of your PC, use speccy: https://www.piriform.com/speccy

ok be back in a minute . 

[deathfinder]

1 minute ago, MrDrWho13 said:

It's not the best looking by any means, but it will work. If you find your CPU getting hot, you might want to look into getting a larger cooler. To install the new GPU, you'll need to take the pre-installed one out.

so everything is golden ? thanks man !

[MrDrWho13]

Just now, deathfinder said:

so everything is golden ? thanks man !

Yeah, just make sure to replace the PSU and upgrade your GPU. (So RX460, RX470, RX480, GTX1060, or GTX1070 depending on your left over budget)

[deathfinder]

7 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

Just use then. Can you show use the full specs of your PC, use speccy: https://www.piriform.com/speccy

i can't use the pc because it is still in the box  so i found a link with everything in it.

go to this link

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/316922/Dell-OptiPlex-9020-Desktop-Computer-Intel/

 

then click on product details .

 

 

[Castdeath97]

8 minutes ago, deathfinder said:

i can't use the pc because it is still in the box  so i found a link with everything in it.

go to this link

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/316922/Dell-OptiPlex-9020-Desktop-Computer-Intel/

 

then click on product details .

 

 

Okay then, here is what a suggest.

1-Upgrade the power supply

2-Get a new graphic card.

 

There is no need to get a new motherboard (it has X16 PCI E for the graphic card) and there is no need to upgrade the RAM (8GB is enough nowadays). Hopefully the power supply is replaceable.

[deathfinder]

1 minute ago, Castdeath97 said:

Okay then, here is what a suggest.

1-Upgarde the power supply

2-Get a new graphic card.

 

There is no need to get a new motherboard (it has X16 PCI E for the graphic card) and there is no need to upgarde the RAM (8GB is enough nowadays). Hopefully the power supply is replaceable.

soo the motherboard won't effect the performance a lot right ?

[Castdeath97]

3 minutes ago, deathfinder said:

soo the motherboard won't effect the performance a lot right ?

Nope.

[deathfinder]

4 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

Nope.

you solved a huge money problem really you did .

 

thanks man .