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I have few hundred dollars to spend and i game alot and would like a better performance, any advice what should i upgrade?

CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-6500 Processor

Cooling: Linkworld Black Power LPK19-35 600W 

MB: msi B150M Mortar

RAM: 1x8gb ddr4

GPU: geforce gtx 950

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Your CPU is still pretty good for gaming. I'd recommend upgrading your graphics card and that crappy power supply.

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Old PC: Intel Xeon X5670 6c/12t @ 4.40GHz, Asus P6X58D-E, 24GB DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GTX 1080 Strix, 500GB, 250GB & 120GB SSD, 2x 4TB & 2x 2TB HDD, Fractal Define R5

PC 2: Intel Xeon E5-2690 8c/16t @ 3.3-3.8GHz, ThinkStation S30 (C602/X79), 64GB (4x 16GB) DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 960 Turbo OC, 1TB Crucial MX500

PC 3: Intel Core i7-3770 4c/8t @ 4.22-4.43GHz, Asus P8Z77-V LK, 16GB DDR3 1648MHz, Asus RX 470 Strix, 1TB & 250GB Crucial MX500 and 3x 500GB HDD

Laptop: ThinkPad T440p, Intel Core i7-4800MQ 4c/8t @ 2.7-3.7GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, GeForce GT 730M (GPU: 1006MHz MEM: 1151MHz), 2TB SSD, 14" 1080p IPS, 100Wh battery

Laptop 2: ThinkPad T450, Intel Core i7-5600U 2c/4t @ 2.6-3.2GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, Intel HD 5500, 250GB SSD, 14" 900p TN, 24Wh + 72Wh batteries

Phone: Huawei Honor 9 64GB + 256GB card Watch: Motorola Moto 360 1st Gen.

General X58 Xeon/i7 discussion

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PC 4: Intel Xeon X5675 6c/12t @ 3.07-3.47GHz, HP 0B4Ch (X58), 12GB DDR3 1333MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 660 DC2, 240GB & 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD

PC 5: Intel Xeon W3550 @ 3.07GHz, HP (X58), 8GB DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 (GPU: 1050MHz MEM: 1250MHz), 120GB SSD, 2TB, 1TB and 500GB HDD

PC 6: Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.8GHz, Asus P5KC, 8GB DDR2, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, 120GB SSD and 500GB HDD

HTPC: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz, HP DC7900SFF, 8GB DDR2 800MHz, Asus Radeon HD 6570, 240GB SSD and 3TB HDD

WinXP PC: Intel Core2 Duo E6300 @ 2.33GHz, Asus P5B, 2GB DDR2 667MHz, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT, 32GB SSD and 80GB HDD

RetroPC: Intel Pentium 4 HT @ 3.0GHz, Gigabyte GA-8SGXLFS, 2gb DDR1, ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, 2x 40gb HDD

My first PC: Intel Celeron 333MHz, Diamond Micronics C400, 384mb RAM, Diamond Viper V550 (NVIDIA Riva TNT), 6gb and 8gb HDD

Server: 2x Intel Xeon E5420, Dell PowerEdge 2950, 32gb DDR2, ATI ES1000, 4x 146gb SAS

Dual Opteron PC: 2x 6-core AMD Opteron 2419EE, HP XW9400, 32GB DDR2, ATI Radeon 3650, 500gb HDD

Core2 Duo PC: Intel Core2 Duo E8400, HP DC7800, 4gb DDR2, NVIDIA Quadro FX1700, 1tb and 80gb HDD

Athlon XP PC: AMD Athlon XP 2400+, MSI something, 1,5gb DDR1, ATI Radeon 9200, 40gb HDD

Thinkpad: Intel Core2 Duo T7200, Lenovo Thinkpad T60, 4gb DDR2, ATI Mobility Radeon X1400, 1tb HDD

Pentium 3 PC: Intel Pentium 3 866MHz, Asus CUSL2-C, 512mb RAM, 3DFX VooDoo 3 2000 AGP

Laptop: Dell Latitude E6430, Intel Core i5-3210M, 6gb DDR3 1600MHz , Intel HD 4000, 250gb Samsung SSD 860 EVO, 1TB WD Blue HDD

Laptop: Latitude 3380, Intel Pentium Gold 4415U 2c/4t @ 2.3GHz, 8GB DDR4, Intel HD 610, 120GB SSD, 13.3" 768p TN, 56Wh battery

 

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12 minutes ago, Pasi123 said:

Your CPU is still pretty good for gaming. I'd recommend upgrading your graphics card and that crappy power supply.

what would better power supply do?

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1 minute ago, babanis said:

what would better power supply do?

Better power supply is be a lot more reliable. Cheap power supply could kill all of your PC parts.

Intel Core i9-10900X, Asus TUF X299 Mark 1, 64GB DDR4 3200MHz, Asus GTX 1080 Strix, 2TB 970 EVO Plus, 2TB SN570, 8TB HDD, DC Assassin III, Meshify 2

Old PC: Intel Xeon X5670 6c/12t @ 4.40GHz, Asus P6X58D-E, 24GB DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GTX 1080 Strix, 500GB, 250GB & 120GB SSD, 2x 4TB & 2x 2TB HDD, Fractal Define R5

PC 2: Intel Xeon E5-2690 8c/16t @ 3.3-3.8GHz, ThinkStation S30 (C602/X79), 64GB (4x 16GB) DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 960 Turbo OC, 1TB Crucial MX500

PC 3: Intel Core i7-3770 4c/8t @ 4.22-4.43GHz, Asus P8Z77-V LK, 16GB DDR3 1648MHz, Asus RX 470 Strix, 1TB & 250GB Crucial MX500 and 3x 500GB HDD

Laptop: ThinkPad T440p, Intel Core i7-4800MQ 4c/8t @ 2.7-3.7GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, GeForce GT 730M (GPU: 1006MHz MEM: 1151MHz), 2TB SSD, 14" 1080p IPS, 100Wh battery

Laptop 2: ThinkPad T450, Intel Core i7-5600U 2c/4t @ 2.6-3.2GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, Intel HD 5500, 250GB SSD, 14" 900p TN, 24Wh + 72Wh batteries

Phone: Huawei Honor 9 64GB + 256GB card Watch: Motorola Moto 360 1st Gen.

General X58 Xeon/i7 discussion

Some other PC's:

Spoiler

Some of the specs of these systems might not be up to date

PC 4: Intel Xeon X5675 6c/12t @ 3.07-3.47GHz, HP 0B4Ch (X58), 12GB DDR3 1333MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 660 DC2, 240GB & 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD

PC 5: Intel Xeon W3550 @ 3.07GHz, HP (X58), 8GB DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 (GPU: 1050MHz MEM: 1250MHz), 120GB SSD, 2TB, 1TB and 500GB HDD

PC 6: Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.8GHz, Asus P5KC, 8GB DDR2, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, 120GB SSD and 500GB HDD

HTPC: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz, HP DC7900SFF, 8GB DDR2 800MHz, Asus Radeon HD 6570, 240GB SSD and 3TB HDD

WinXP PC: Intel Core2 Duo E6300 @ 2.33GHz, Asus P5B, 2GB DDR2 667MHz, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT, 32GB SSD and 80GB HDD

RetroPC: Intel Pentium 4 HT @ 3.0GHz, Gigabyte GA-8SGXLFS, 2gb DDR1, ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, 2x 40gb HDD

My first PC: Intel Celeron 333MHz, Diamond Micronics C400, 384mb RAM, Diamond Viper V550 (NVIDIA Riva TNT), 6gb and 8gb HDD

Server: 2x Intel Xeon E5420, Dell PowerEdge 2950, 32gb DDR2, ATI ES1000, 4x 146gb SAS

Dual Opteron PC: 2x 6-core AMD Opteron 2419EE, HP XW9400, 32GB DDR2, ATI Radeon 3650, 500gb HDD

Core2 Duo PC: Intel Core2 Duo E8400, HP DC7800, 4gb DDR2, NVIDIA Quadro FX1700, 1tb and 80gb HDD

Athlon XP PC: AMD Athlon XP 2400+, MSI something, 1,5gb DDR1, ATI Radeon 9200, 40gb HDD

Thinkpad: Intel Core2 Duo T7200, Lenovo Thinkpad T60, 4gb DDR2, ATI Mobility Radeon X1400, 1tb HDD

Pentium 3 PC: Intel Pentium 3 866MHz, Asus CUSL2-C, 512mb RAM, 3DFX VooDoo 3 2000 AGP

Laptop: Dell Latitude E6430, Intel Core i5-3210M, 6gb DDR3 1600MHz , Intel HD 4000, 250gb Samsung SSD 860 EVO, 1TB WD Blue HDD

Laptop: Latitude 3380, Intel Pentium Gold 4415U 2c/4t @ 2.3GHz, 8GB DDR4, Intel HD 610, 120GB SSD, 13.3" 768p TN, 56Wh battery

 

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2 minutes ago, Pasi123 said:

Better power supply is be a lot more reliable. Cheap power supply could kill all of your PC parts.

do you recomend anything in particular? ive bought this pc pre build and the power suply didint failed me yet

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8 minutes ago, babanis said:

do you recomend anything in particular? ive bought this pc pre build and the power suply didint failed me yet

I can recommend the "Gray label" (NOT the older ones with a green label) Corsair CX units. Get a 600W one. this will also be enough for future upgrades.

They are reliable, silent, ok eficeneny, cheap and are no fire hazard like yours :D

 

This won't upgrade the performance of your rig but is also very important if you don't want your rig to get zapped of the PSU to fail  at some point in the future ;) Where are you located? I can provide you a link to the PSU I recommend.

 

Perf wise, you could upgrade the GPU but for general gaming its super fine! Do you game on HD resolution?

 

Also a idea is to try to sell the 1x8GB stick of RAM and get some used 2x4GB kit. This will increase your perf by a bit, because you can use dual channel memory access.

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1 minute ago, Metallus97 said:

I can recommend the "Gray label" (NOT the older ones with a green label) Corsair CX units. Get a 600W one. this will also be enough for future upgrades.

They are reliable, silent, ok eficeneny, cheap and are no fire hazard like yours :D

 

This won't upgrade the performance of your rig but is also very important if you don't want your rig to get zapped of the PSU to fail  at some point in the future ;)

 

Perf wise, you could upgrade the GPU but for general gaming its super fine! Do you game on HD?

thanks for the tip, if i play pubg or something i play on mininum everything. Is there anything else i should look out for?

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thanks for the tip, if i play pubg or something i play on mininum everything. Is there anything else i should look out for?

Yeha! try to play on higher settings. The 950 should be able to push more than minimum in PUBG

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12 minutes ago, Metallus97 said:

Yeha! try to play on higher settings. The 950 should be able to push more than minimum in PUBG

by the way i only have ssd 240gb and i kinda need more space should i get another ssd or shouldi get hdd?

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3 hours ago, babanis said:

by the way i only have ssd 240gb and i kinda need more space should i get another ssd or shouldi get hdd?

Wich files do you want to store?

If you have lots of pictures music etc you should go HDD.

But if you plan to have more games on the PC I suggest a SSD bcs of the better loading times

 

In general it comes down to this: HDD: Bulk storage, SSD: Games and Programs you use often

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20 hours ago, babanis said:

I have few hundred dollars to spend

How many few?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
Video Card Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB D5 6G Video Card $254.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply Corsair - TXM Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $75.89 @ OutletPC
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $350.87
  Mail-in rebates -$20.00
  Total $330.87
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-25 02:41 EDT-0400  

 

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On 10/25/2018 at 9:41 AM, MandoPanda said:

How many few?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
Video Card Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB D5 6G Video Card $254.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply Corsair - TXM Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $75.89 @ OutletPC
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $350.87
  Mail-in rebates -$20.00
  Total $330.87
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-25 02:41 EDT-0400  

 

well i could spend 300 dollars not much more, is this most efficient way to boost my pc performance?

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7 hours ago, babanis said:

well i could spend 300 dollars not much more, is this most efficient way to boost my pc performance?

Yes this is pretty nice, but I’d recommend a Corsair CX “gray label” PSU. But you should make it dependent on which you can get cheaper. Simply try to get a(semi) modular one :)

the videocard he picked is nice and will be sufficieant for anything on high to medium on 1080p. 

Your CPU is fine and ram (although it is a single stick) is also ok 

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On 10/27/2018 at 1:24 AM, Metallus97 said:

Yes this is pretty nice, but I’d recommend a Corsair CX “gray label” PSU. But you should make it dependent on which you can get cheaper. Simply try to get a(semi) modular one :)

the videocard he picked is nice and will be sufficieant for anything on high to medium on 1080p. 

Your CPU is fine and ram (although it is a single stick) is also ok 

hey i fouund a few cheaper power suplies wich would you recomend?

 

PSU Corsair Builder Series VS650 650W, Bulk this one is for 45euros

Corsair Cx550m is for 40 euros

Corsair Cx750m for 60 euros

 

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54 minutes ago, babanis said:

hey i fouund a few cheaper power suplies wich would you recomend?

 

PSU Corsair Builder Series VS650 650W, Bulk this one is for 45euros

Corsair Cx550m is for 40 euros

Corsair Cx750m for 60 euros

 

cx550m is my recommendation from these 3. I would recommend anything from tier 3+ in the psu tier list (pinned in the cases and psu catagory), whatever is the cheapest 500+ watt psu that forfills your needs. then a 1060 6gb, 580 8gb or a second hand 980 ti would be my recommendation gpu-wise.

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43 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

cx550m is my recommendation from these 3. I would recommend anything from tier 3+ in the psu tier list (pinned in the cases and psu catagory), whatever is the cheapest 500+ watt psu that forfills your needs. then a 1060 6gb, 580 8gb or a second hand 980 ti would be my recommendation gpu-wise.

okay thanks im gonna buy cx550m then and prob gonna get rx 580, will it be hard to change the parts out? and will i be able to sell my gtx 950 u think?

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2 minutes ago, babanis said:

okay thanks im gonna buy cx550m then and prob gonna get rx 580, will it be hard to change the parts out? and will i be able to sell my gtx 950 u think?

good choise. not really. just get the gpu out of the slot, insert the new one and disconnect the psu connectors. only cable management could be hard, but that's why we have zipties

 

and selling, you should be possible, but I'm not that much in the second hand market

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On 11/2/2018 at 1:41 PM, LukeSavenije said:

good choise. not really. just get the gpu out of the slot, insert the new one and disconnect the psu connectors. only cable management could be hard, but that's why we have zipties

 

and selling, you should be possible, but I'm not that much in the second hand market

when changing the psu can i reuse the old cables?

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58 minutes ago, babanis said:

when changing the psu can i reuse the old cables?

If it's (semi)modulair you might be. But the cx550 and cx450 are with included cables. 

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On 10/24/2018 at 4:02 PM, babanis said:

I have few hundred dollars to spend and i game alot and would like a better performance, any advice what should i upgrade?

CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-6500 Processor

Cooling: Linkworld Black Power LPK19-35 600W 

MB: msi B150M Mortar

RAM: 1x8gb ddr4

GPU: geforce gtx 950

I'd recommend these changes...

Recommended a rx580 armor mk2 oc card and a seasonic focus plus gold series psu. Went with the 750w model coz it is currently on sale.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Video Card: MSI - Radeon RX 580 8GB ARMOR MK2 OC Video Card  ($219.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($68.01 @ Newegg) 
Total: $288.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-03 09:50 EDT-0400

SSD TIER LIST

 

 

CPU - Ryzen 7 3700X

Mobo - ASRock X470 Taichi

Memory - G.Skill Trident Z RGB (8x2 3200MHz) 

Storage - Sabrent Rocket 1TB - Seagate Barracuda 2TB - WD Black 1TB

GPU - MSI GeForce GTX 980Ti LIGHTNING

Case - Fractal Design Meshify C

PSU - Super Flower Leadex II Gold 650W

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1 hour ago, LukeSavenije said:

If it's (semi)modulair you might be. But the cx550 and cx450 are with included cables. 

the cx550m i want to buy says modular atx power suply. when changing will it be enough to unplug my old psu and swap it with this one? or will i ahve to unplug everything from everything?

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3 minutes ago, babanis said:

the cx550m i want to buy says modular atx power suply. when changing will it be enough to unplug my old psu and swap it with this one? or will i ahve to unplug everything from everything?

 

54 minutes ago, vexicus365 said:

I'd recommend these changes...

Recommended a rx580 armor mk2 oc card and a seasonic focus plus gold series psu. Went with the 750w model coz it is currently on sale.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Video Card: MSI - Radeon RX 580 8GB ARMOR MK2 OC Video Card  ($219.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($68.01 @ Newegg) 
Total: $288.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-03 09:50 EDT-0400

 

SSD TIER LIST

 

 

CPU - Ryzen 7 3700X

Mobo - ASRock X470 Taichi

Memory - G.Skill Trident Z RGB (8x2 3200MHz) 

Storage - Sabrent Rocket 1TB - Seagate Barracuda 2TB - WD Black 1TB

GPU - MSI GeForce GTX 980Ti LIGHTNING

Case - Fractal Design Meshify C

PSU - Super Flower Leadex II Gold 650W

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1 minute ago, vexicus365 said:

its not really for sale for me couse of import taxes

 

 

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its not really for sale for me couse of import taxes

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