What should I upgrade for my pc?

[Zakkypoo]

I was looking to get some advice on what to upgrade in my PC. I am looking to upgrade any part with a total of around 350 American Dollars or roughly 420 Canadian dollars. I am providing a screenshot of a few of my specs.

GPU: Radeon RX XFX 460

CPU: i5 650 3.2 GHZ

Ram: 8 GB

Motherboard: CG5275

Thanks for any help in advanced. 

[Thermosman]

The cpu, maybe look at ryzen 1600

[SCHISCHKA]

upgrade the user

 

[r3loAded]

34 minutes ago, Zakkypoo said:

I was looking to get some advice on what to upgrade in my PC. I am looking to upgrade any part with a total of around 350 American Dollars or roughly 420 Canadian dollars. I am providing a screenshot of a few of my specs.

GPU: Radeon RX XFX 460

CPU: i5 650 3.2 GHZ

Ram: 8 GB

Motherboard: CG5275

Thanks for any help in advanced. 

It's quite a difficult task to upgrade what you have now.

 

Some will say to upgrade the whole PC, to which I agree.

 

If you want to upgrade the GPU you might find yourself in a bottleneck situation with your CPU. If you want to upgrade the CPU and keep the GPU you might find that there will be no fps increase due to GPU limitation. If you want to upgrade both you'll go over budget and will find yourself in the fist situation presented, upgrading the whole PC.

 

I would say, sell this one and add all the money you have and look from there a new PC based on R3 1200.

[IKnight]

Do you have an SSD? Best bang for buck upgrade possible.

[Klovnious]

1 hour ago, Zakkypoo said:

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To what purpose do you want to upgrade it for? Be it gaming, or photo/video editing? Or both?

[kelvinhall05]

1 hour ago, Zakkypoo said:

420

I'd buy a used Sandy Bridge i7 system and either throw in your GPU or buy a used 7950 or 970 or something like that and throw it in.

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[Zakkypoo]

20 hours ago, Klovnious said:

To what purpose do you want to upgrade it for? Be it gaming, or photo/video editing? Or both?

Just gaming.

[Zakkypoo]

20 hours ago, chasebh89 said:

For $350 you'll be pressed to find good parts. You could try second hand, buying Craigslist "gaming" computers and stripping out the useful parts, but that comes with an inherent risk. You can scrum around discount sites but for your budget you wont be able to get much. I'd improve the processor and RAM if you're able. Or a good motherboard will go a long way to improve customization and a little bit of performance

I was thinking towards a better Motherboard. Thank you for the advice. 

[Zakkypoo]

20 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I'd buy a used Sandy Bridge i7 system and either throw in your GPU or buy a used 7950 or 970 or something like that and throw it in.

I'll look at those, thanks for the options!

[Sanctorum]

What case and PSU do you have? Also, storage? What monitor(s) are you using?

[minervx]

On 9/13/2017 at 7:07 AM, Thermosman said:

The cpu, maybe look at ryzen 1600

At this point, he'll need a new motherboard too and he may as well just build from scratch.

[Zakkypoo]

On 9/14/2017 at 4:45 AM, Sanctorum said:

What case and PSU do you have? Also, storage? What monitor(s) are you using?

Thermaltake TR2 430W, 2 Terabit WDC. I am running a basic acer 1920x1080 Monitor, with a Samsung TV.