A Little upgrade advice Please

lawrs1 · 21 Jan 2014 at 10:58

Hi All, I'm kinda new here, but you may have guessed that already.

Currently I have a prebuilt Acer Predator, Spec as below

CPU: Intel i5 650 @ 3.2 ghz
RAM: 4Gb
GPU: Nvidia GT440

Basically just wondering if it is worth my time upgrading this, or just starting over, as it somewhat struggles with BF4, not that, that is really a surprise as this pic shows.

As you can see that is just with running BF4, any advice would be appreciated

Idleman · 21 Jan 2014 at 11:26

Hello and welcome to the forum.

You could probably OC the chip some more and upgrade the Gpu.

mickyflinn · 21 Jan 2014 at 12:00

Another 4gb of ram and a new gpu , do you have a budget ?

lawrs1 · 21 Jan 2014 at 12:07

Budget would Ideally be as low as possible, i.e under £200 for the gpu, having said that would that cpu not cause a bottleneck with a newer gpu?

lawrs1 · 21 Jan 2014 at 17:12

Also would prefer to keep the Ram cost below about £80 if possible

lawrs1 · 28 Jan 2014 at 16:27

Anyone have any more advice to add to this

Danny75 · 28 Jan 2014 at 17:05

lawrs1 said:
Anyone have any more advice to add to this

Other than agreeing with Idle and Micky, make sure the PSU in the Acer is capable of running the video card you want. And that you get the right memory for the motherboard.