Dell Inspiron 570? rebuild?

[asand1]

My daughter will be 14 next month I was thinking about an i5 CPU/Mobo upgrade on her PC. She is playing GTAV and Warframe among other games on what I believe is a Dell Inspiron 570. It is at her mothers house and I cant be sure what it is until I have it here to clean it up. I know it has an AMD quad core on I believe AM2 with DDR3. I have enough DDR3 RAM to give her 12Gb but I don't know what FF the mobo is.

 

Cliffs:

What Form factor is the Dell Inspiron 570? I would like to do an i5 and motherboard upgrade.

[Guest]

Might be micro ATX

Spoiler

 

[asand1]

@deXxterlab97

Yeah that's what i've found so far. I have to keep costs down due to divorce costs, I am thinking sandy/ivy bridge due to the DDR3 I have an abundance of. Is that 1155?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, asand1 said:

@deXxterlab97

Yeah that's what i've found so far. I have to keep costs down due to divorce costs, I am thinking sandy/ivy bridge due to the DDR3 I have an abundance of. Is that 1155?

AMD mobo doesn't work with Intel CPU. 

[asand1]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

AMD mobo doesn't work with Intel CPU. 

I know, I want to replace mobo and CPU with something that'll do GTA V at 60FPS high settings. was thinking Ivy i5 and mobo.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, asand1 said:

I know, I want to replace mobo and CPU with something that'll do GTA V at 60FPS high settings. was thinking Ivy i5 and mobo.

Oh. Yeah, 1155 is 3rd and 2nd gen cpu. It would do. See if you can get Haswell and 1150 mobo for cheap. 

[asand1]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Oh. Yeah, 1155 is 3rd and 2nd gen cpu. It would do. See if you can get Haswell and 1150 mobo for cheap. 

OK thanks.

[Clyne]

You can get a LGA 1155 board for 30 bucks, then pick up a i5-2400 for 50-60.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-DH61WW-SOCKET-LGA-1155-MOTHERBOARD-TESTED-WARRANTY-D65-/142144372277?hash=item211876fe35:g:clMAAOSwCGVX-7J8

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-i5-2400-3-10GHz-6MB-CPU-LGA1155-SR00Q-Sandy-Bridge-Processor-/282057612899?hash=item41abf19e63:g:Od4AAOSwMNxXUiYs

 

Haswell i5s go for 100-140 and 1150 boards for around 40-50. 

[asand1]

@deXxterlab97

@Bubblewhale

I think I will swap my HP M3970AM (Angelica2) mobo and FX 4300 into the Dell with 12GB DDR3. If I'm right, the Dell only has a Athlon II X2 250. 1949 VS 4629 on Passmark. I will see next Friday.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Bubblewhale said:

You can get a LGA 1155 board for 30 bucks, then pick up a i5-2400 for 50-60.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-DH61WW-SOCKET-LGA-1155-MOTHERBOARD-TESTED-WARRANTY-D65-/142144372277?hash=item211876fe35:g:clMAAOSwCGVX-7J8

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-i5-2400-3-10GHz-6MB-CPU-LGA1155-SR00Q-Sandy-Bridge-Processor-/282057612899?hash=item41abf19e63:g:Od4AAOSwMNxXUiYs

 

Haswell i5s go for 100-140 and 1150 boards for around 40-50. 

uh oh. Just an fyi for future

 

[Clyne]

3 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

uh oh. Just an fyi for future

 

There's still people linking to ebay, and it's not my listing. 

[Clyne]

28 minutes ago, asand1 said:

@deXxterlab97

@Bubblewhale

I think I will swap my HP M3970AM (Angelica2) mobo and FX 4300 into the Dell with 12GB DDR3. If I'm right, the Dell only has a Athlon II X2 250. 1949 VS 4629 on Passmark. I will see next Friday.

That will be a bit of an upgrade, my friend has a X2 270 and it struggles in some games (Overwatch). 

[asand1]

2 minutes ago, Bubblewhale said:

That will be a bit of an upgrade, my friend has a X2 270 and it struggles in some games (Overwatch). 

Yeah I watched her playing GTA on it the other day and it was abysmal. She also only has a GT 740, but I'm sure the CPU is the weakest link.

[Clyne]

5 minutes ago, asand1 said:

Yeah I watched her playing GTA on it the other day and it was abysmal. She also only has a GT 740, but I'm sure the CPU is the weakest link.

It'll perform fine, just make sure to have some faster RAM as GTA 5 does gain FPS from having higher clocked ram.

Q9550 gets around 4K in Passmark, FX 4300 should perform better than shown in the video. 

 

[asand1]

This is with an i7 4790 and GT 740 2GB OC like the one she has.

 

[Clyne]

7 minutes ago, asand1 said:

This is with an i7 4790 and GT 740 2GB OC like the one she has.

 

I did notice a huge average FPS increase from upgrading my GPU( 270X to Fury), minimum FPS when I upgraded my CPU( FX-8320 to i5-6500). 

[asand1]

Looks like the FX 4300 runs ok with a GTX 960. I think the FX 4300 and GT 740 2GB will do fine together.