PC recommendations, Please

[Lllliiiiyw]

Before I start, I wanted to clear this up, I had little to nothing info on what to get and I was also in a hurry of buying my own pc, so basically I saved money for 7 years from my daily student allowance from my parents and only managed to get around $300. And I got too excited to get my own rig that I bought a really bad one. Though I’m here to ask if anyone would like to give me some recommendation on what to upgrade next. Since I’m quite confused on what to do.

 

please dont judge my poor selection in my rig

 

amd fx 4300

palit gt 1030

4gb ram

1tb ssd

750w power supply

 

What should i upgrade? Somewhere that wont go over $150. 

[Herman Mcpootis]

if you can return the parts, return them and get a 2200G instead.

[Guest]

You COULD get a new CPU and motherboard but I don’t know if you’d get a reasonable upgrade for 150 dollars. 

 

I think if you wait to get more money, you could get something better. 

[thedude4bides]

$150 aint going to help you much... you already have an ssd so that leaves RAM, CPU+Mobo, and GPU as upgrades.  Of those it seems upgrading RAM to 8gb is the best option to stay in budget.  

 

Really though, you should upgrade cpu+mobo but that will be hard for $150.

[brob]

Continue to save. Save enough for a new cpu, motherboard, and memory. Once that has been accomplished, the gpu can be upgraded. Unfortunately it really isn't reasonable to split up the cpu/motherboard/memory upgrade since you need to move to a Ryzen or Coffee Lake cpu.

[Lllliiiiyw]

Thanks for all the replies,

 

So if I were to upgrade something. Would be best ? to save for a better cpu or upgrade to 8gb ram?

 

and if I were to upgrade a cpu, which one should it be? A cpu that is worth its price and the price to be not too outrageous.

 

Terribly sorry for being a wuss here

[brob]

Little point in upgrading memory at this point unless you can get a really good deal. Any significant cpu upgrade is going to require moving to DDR4.

 

"too outrageous" is very subjective. A cpu around US$100 would be a reasonable upgrade. Spending ~US$150 would be even better. The difficulty is that memory is pretty expensive still, 8GB is around US$80.

[Mooshi]

Get a job, save actual money and let us know when that's done. $150 isn't going to improve things much.

 

[Guest]

44 minutes ago, Lllliiiiyw said:

Thanks for all the replies,

 

So if I were to upgrade something. Would be best ? to save for a better cpu or upgrade to 8gb ram?

 

and if I were to upgrade a cpu, which one should it be? A cpu that is worth its price and the price to be not too outrageous.

 

Terribly sorry for being a wuss here

I think an i5 CPU would be good. Since you likely have DDR3 and won’t have money for a while anyway, you could wait for a new generation. Get whatever newest i5 CPU, the motherboard and 8 or 16 GB of ram. 

Later you can upgrade your GPU. Right now that GPU is fine, especially if you drop to 1280x720p. I saw someone play some games in 4K with that. (Green ham gaming) 

[Herman Mcpootis]

6 hours ago, Lllliiiiyw said:

Thanks for all the replies,

 

So if I were to upgrade something. Would be best ? to save for a better cpu or upgrade to 8gb ram?

 

and if I were to upgrade a cpu, which one should it be? A cpu that is worth its price and the price to be not too outrageous.

 

Terribly sorry for being a wuss here

both are needed, but save up and get a newer platform first. even a 2200G will be much better(you can use the iGPU instead of the 1030).