Advice on upgrade

lostpaul · 26 May 2016 at 22:59

Hello i would appreciate it if someone could give me some advice on an upgrade for my pc. I currently have the below set up but i am confident i desperately need a CPU upgrade. The computer will be used to play most games that come out or are coming out doom, need for speed, no mans sky, gta V etc.. I dont need to run them on ultra but would like to be able to run on high with smooth fps. Or maybe i should just save some money and start from scratch any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

Cpu Amd athlon II x4 645
Ram 8.00gb dual channel ddr3 @ 664mhz
Motherboard asrock m3a ucc
Gpu 3072mb ati amd radeon r9 200 series
Storage 931 seagate st100dl002-9tt153 sata

Thanks

pastymuncher · 27 May 2016 at 09:19

Hi and welcome to the forums.

You are going to need a complete rebuild I am afraid. Your motherboard won't take any of the AMD FX cpu's so you can't drop a 8320/8350 in it for a quick easy upgrade. How much do you want to spend? What res do you game at? Which R9 200 series gpu do you actually have?

Borealis · 27 May 2016 at 09:33

Welcome to the forums.

You are going to need to rebuild unfortunately. I think the best bet would be to save up and make a fresh build rather than spend money trying to upgrade an obsolete platform.

A 3GB R9 200 suggests one of the 280/280X cards. AFAIK they're the only ones that have 3GB VRAM.

subbytna · 27 May 2016 at 10:43

280x has 3 gig as I had one a while back.

lostpaul · 27 May 2016 at 13:26

Thanks for the welcome.

Its a sapphire amd r9 280 3gb. I thought a rebuild was going to be needed found this bundle https://www.overclockers.co.uk/8pac...locked-quad-core-gaming-bundle-bu-050-as.html .

My plan is to buy a chip set and keep my graphics card then get a new graphics card in maybe about 6 months. I want something that is going to last at least 2 years so would i be better getting a better chip set or is this one ok?

Thanks