upgrading 4 year old pc

[michael mcflute]

Hi,

I have a computer I bought about 4 years ago that I haven't turned on in over a year (as I've been overseas). When I get back to Australia, I'd like to upgrade it.

Currently it's an ASUS B85 Pro gamer with an I5 cpu (though can't recall exactly which one, I think it's a

i5-2500K), 16 gigs DDR3 corsair memory, Gigabyte gtx 760, 256 gig sata ssd and 3 tb platter drive.

 

It currently runs Windows 10, though it's as of May 2017, so...ancient. When I get back, I will do a fresh install of Windows 10 using the same license.

 

I get back to Australia in a couple of months, and I was hoping to be able to upgrade the CPU, but the chipset is a bit too old (4th gen i7s don't seem to be that easy to find anymore) and the graphics card. The disks are old too, but haven't been used in a while so *fingers crossed*, they are ok.

 

I'm not a full on serious gamer, though I do like Assassin's creed (hoping to play at least Origins), batman arkham series and do love train fever/cities skylines.

 

Planning on running 1 monitor, maybe 2 at most. I wouldn't want to spend more than $1000 AUD (and I know that this is a bit painful because of the $AUD/USD exchange rate at the moment). I don't think this thing will support booting from an NvME disk, so I'd probably just stick to a SATA SSD if i were to replace that.

 

Would just putting a better graphics card in there give me a good performance boost (haven't done much research in to this, so tips here would be helpful), or is the whole thing just getting too old now (I know the socket is discontinued)??

 

Cheers!

Michael

[Herman Mcpootis]

3 minutes ago, michael mcflute said:

Hi,

I have a computer I bought about 4 years ago that I haven't turned on in over a year (as I've been overseas). When I get back to Australia, I'd like to upgrade it.

Currently it's an ASUS B85 Pro gamer with an I5 cpu (though can't recall exactly which one, I think it's a

i5-2500K), 16 gigs DDR3 corsair memory, Gigabyte gtx 760, 256 gig sata ssd and 3 tb platter drive.

 

It currently runs Windows 10, though it's as of May 2017, so...ancient. When I get back, I will do a fresh install of Windows 10 using the same license.

 

I get back to Australia in a couple of months, and I was hoping to be able to upgrade the CPU, but the chipset is a bit too old (4th gen i7s don't seem to be that easy to find anymore) and the graphics card. The disks are old too, but haven't been used in a while so *fingers crossed*, they are ok.

 

I'm not a full on serious gamer, though I do like Assassin's creed (hoping to play at least Origins), batman arkham series and do love train fever/cities skylines.

 

Planning on running 1 monitor, maybe 2 at most. I wouldn't want to spend more than $1000 AUD (and I know that this is a bit painful because of the $AUD/USD exchange rate at the moment). I don't think this thing will support booting from an NvME disk, so I'd probably just stick to a SATA SSD if i were to replace that.

 

Would just putting a better graphics card in there give me a good performance boost (haven't done much research in to this, so tips here would be helpful), or is the whole thing just getting too old now (I know the socket is discontinued)??

 

Cheers!

Michael

the 2500k uses a completely different socket from that board. a haswell i7 still does well in gaming, you can look for a used i7/xeon equivalent and use the money on a better GPU.

[michael mcflute]

1 minute ago, fasauceome said:

Ignore him, he's been trolling the forum all morning. Report him too.

 

Just now, Herman Mcpootis said:

the 2500k uses a completely different socket from that board. a haswell i7 still does well in gaming, you can look for a used i7/xeon equivalent and use the money on a better GPU.

AAhh...yeah I'll check it properly at home...sorry everyone. It has been a while since I looked

[Fasauceome]

An i7 3770k and a GTX 980 would be a nice budget option if you wanted to save a little cash

[SidM]

hey i would recommend a locked i3 along with a b350 mobo, you can recycle the rest of the parts and u should also get a 256gb nvme for your os. This should hopefully be below 1000 aud

[Herman Mcpootis]

3 minutes ago, SidM said:

i3 along with a b350 mobo

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

Mistakes were made

[SidM]

3 minutes ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

oh god im so so so so so sorry. I meant b360. I cant believe I made a mistake like that

[SidM]

10 minutes ago, SidM said:

hey i would recommend a locked i3 along with a b360 mobo, you can recycle the rest of the parts and u should also get a 256gb nvme for your os. This should hopefully be below 1000 aud

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[Fasauceome]

3 minutes ago, SidM said:

oh god im so so so so so sorry. I meant b360. I cant believe I made a mistake like that

On the one hand, it's funny how AMD trolled Intel by stealing their product names, but on the other had, it makes for one confusing product stack

[SidM]

2 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

On the one hand, it's funny how AMD trolled Intel by stealing their product names, but on the other had, it makes for one confusing product stack

Imagine the poor guy putting in a i3 8100 in an am4

[Herman Mcpootis]

2 minutes ago, SidM said:

Imagine the poor guy putting in a i3 8100 in an am4

hey, why is my CPU sliding out of it's socket?

[SidM]

2 minutes ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

hey, why is my CPU sliding out of it's socket?

hey, i don't see any pins no more?!?!?!