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upgrading an old system for a friend

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Hello,

I'm posting this for a friend because hes not so familiar with linus tech tips so I thought I could do it for him .
He has a 100 euros to upgrade something in this system

Specs:
M5a97 evo 2 motherboard

Amd fx 8150 @3.6 ghz

Arctic 13 freezer Cpu cooler

Kingston Ddr3 ram 2x4

Gtx 660

2x hdd 500 gb

750w crossair psu

So his problem is about FPS drops from 70 fps to 20 for example when alot of CPU intensive things are happening.

and even tho he doesn't play intensive games , playing on low all the time bothers him so here is what I suggested : 
1) Since he has a mobo that has VRAM heatsinks and has an aftermarket cooler , maybe he could overclock the cpu to help with intensive moments while gaming,

and selling his 660 for 50-60 bucks and adding the 100 euros so he can get a 1050 ti .
2) My second Idea was selling his mobo and cpu and ram as a bundle and getting a ryzen 1200 instead , and upgrade GPU as soon as he can 

and he was thinking of selling the pc for minimum of 350 euros towards a used PC off ebay for 500 euros or so .
Do you agree with my ideas or do you have something els ?  

 

 

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Sell the 660, get a 1050ti.

 

see if you can get him on an SSD as well

 

And yes, overclock that cpu

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Just now, Jrock said:

Sell the 660, get a 1050ti.

 

see if you can get him on an SSD as well

the fps drops are being caused by the cpu tho 
Am I right there ? 
Do you agree with overclocking it ?

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Sell 660, buy a 1050 ti or 1050+ssd, and then oc the cpu

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2 minutes ago, NewBieDavid said:

the fps drops are being caused by the cpu tho 
Am I right there ? 
Do you agree with overclocking it ?

There isn't much we can do about the CPU without going with a new platform though, upgrading here will require quite the spending and can't be made that cheap

 

OC the CPU and get a 1050ti, SSD would be cool but not a demand if he doesn't mind the slow loads.

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2 minutes ago, NewBieDavid said:

the fps drops are being caused by the cpu tho 
Am I right there ? 
Do you agree with overclocking it ?

Drops are probably caused by the gpu tbh.

 

Overclock the cpu, sell the gpu and get a 1050 and an ssd(or stretch your budget and a 1050ti and a ssd)

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