help with friends rig

[Baltazar03]

My friend has a i7 2600k with 16gb ram and a gtx 750 3gb of vram and 1000hz boost clock ore somthing like that. He can not play many games without lag if he does not use the lowest graphics. His computer was originaly built for a work station and he want's to buy a new graphicscard what do you guys recommend?

[NickPickerWI]

Ouch...

 

The whole system is old. A 2600k is ancient. DDR3 is becoming ancient.

 

It sounds like, if he wants to play new titles, the whole system needs to be looked at. Putting a GTX 10-series card into a system like that would be like using a nuclear reactor to charge your phone. To keep things somewhat realistic, I don't think anything above a 1060 or a used 980/980ti would be useful - the system would bottleneck on the other hardware.

 

If your friend literally only wants to update the graphics card, I'd say to buy a 10-series card, and start saving for a more recent motherboard, RAM and CPU, because he will desperately need it. Even a 6700k will be 32% better per UserBenchmark.

[AskTJ]

I wouldn't recommend anything with this platform.

 

I'd say he sell all his parts, and get a Ryzen 3 2200G and a GPU of his choice.

[NickPickerWI]

Just now, AskTJ said:

I wouldn't recommend anything with this platform.

 

I'd say he sell all his parts, and get a Ryzen 3 2200G and a GPU of his choice.

That's why I recommended what I did. If his friend gets a 10-series card, he will at least be able to salvage the case, the new video card, and maybe the power supply.

 

AMD video cards just aren't up to par, and are only really great if you want to get a cheap monitor with FreeSync.

[N1NJ4W4RR10R]

Honestly? Just save for a full upgrade. 

[Baltazar03]

2 hours ago, NickPickerWI said:

power supply.

the powersuply is gold rated. And it is worth a lott. And he bought it really chep from a person online so to be honest he could go proffit on this.

[Baltazar03]

13 minutes ago, N1NJ4W4RR10R said:

Honestly? Just save for a full upgrade. 

We realized that his dad has a computer that he doesn't use and that has a 970 msi in it and that is kinda good. but he does not still have a pci cable. but he has a almost fully modular powersuply. Is it worth buying a 8 pin pci cable?? 

[NickPickerWI]

4 hours ago, Baltazar03 said:

We realized that his dad has a computer that he doesn't use and that has a 970 msi in it and that is kinda good. but he does not still have a pci cable. but he has a almost fully modular powersuply. Is it worth buying a 8 pin pci cable??

If I understand you correctly, you're saying you have a 970 sitting in the dad's computer, but you don't have the PCIe cable for your friend's computer to be able to swap the video cards.

 

I would say...yes, you'd be cheaper off getting a PCIe cable from that exact same company (you don't want to buy just any PCIe cable). But you'd be even better off just swapping the hard drives and using the dad's computer, it takes just as much time to do.