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Hey Guys, just looking for a little help please as the best way to go here.
Have been out of PC Gaming for many many years, my son who is 15 has dug out one of my old towers and found one of my old Asus Rog 165hz 1440p monitors, and is asking me to upgrade or change bits in the tower so he can play Apex on high settings. Now this tower is really old and I am guessing I probably need to change everything, but was wondering if I could get away with just changing the GPU for now? And if so which GPU would be best. So the specs of this ancient system are

RX 570 (Yes I am sure I need something much better in this regard and maybe a whole new setup)
i7 2600k @4.2
Gigabyte Z68 VPRO
16Gb DDR3 1600mhz
Old style ssd's

I was looking and it has been that long I don't really know what is best here, I am sure I could change the graphics card, but then I am betting the system would still run poorly? Budget wise, I dont have too much money so if I would need everything, may need to buy parts over 2 months. Any help would be great guys, the monitor still seems alright to be fair Asus PQ278 1440.

Thanks
 
Has SSDs mate, it doesn't run well at 1080p, and the monitor is 1440p. I would probably be looking on the 2nd hand market, budget not really sure, open to advice really mate. It's just completely unplayable never even got to checking fps if I am being honest. What would you recommend.
 
I have built computers for many years, tbh he wants apex to run at 1440p, so either way I will need to change parts won't I? So the 570 isn't suitable. Do you think we should try changing gpu? And if that's not enough change the lot. Thank you for your help
 
If you where in this position, would you buy a motherboard, CPU ram and gpu? I am, contemplating between getting a gpu or just buying his a ps5 at this point mate. Probably have about £300 to spend on a gpu I would guess, but other than that I could may look at changing mobo CPU ram next month depending on how much they cost nowadays. So really would be looking as cheap as possible, but still aiming to play apex max settings at 1440p. If that can't be done cheap I think ps5 will have to do.
Thanks mate
 
That's quite cheap, I would be open to get a 1440p card maybe and buy bits in 2 parts. Funny I was looking at that card this morning, being out of PC gaming for 10 years I am so lost now haha. I really do appteciate all the help guys, can't believe how little I know now
 
Ok thanks guys, I think what I will do is choose a motherboard /CPU/ram bundle and pick up a 2nd hand decent gpu. Either that or just get him a ps5, consoles ain't bad nowadays anyway. He already has the Xbox x, will look at bundles and see what can find for a rebuild
 
I was looking at a MSI 980ti online for £60 as a stop gap last night but a 1080 or ti I did think about too, I actually remember back in the day I had a 1080ti running the same 1440p monitor fine, but it wasn't with that 2600k, quite sure it was on a 5960x. I will try getting hold of a 2nd hand card till I can get all new from ocuk I think then, thank you guys
 
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1080ti came and seems running into issues even with an overclock, Apex running into issues running on this card with this cpu and setup,tried with no overclock too so like mentioned will likely be power issue. Any cheap powersupplies that I could get to replace the RM650 guys?

Also, any cheap motherboard, cpu and ram bundles worth getting to change the 2600k / z68 v pro/ ram too ?
 
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Just freezing when try run apex which us the game he wanted it for mate, can't load and when it does it crashed, but not like a proper crash, the screen freezes is all. I am sure it's a power issue like was said
 
I no longer have a main right accessible to test, but the guy who bought this off has 100% feedback out of thousands, and the card runs simple games mate
 
Ok mate, will run heaven in morning when home from work. He did tell me he used this card up until last week andc had no problems, so that's why I thought either a power issue or with me having to over clock the 2600k to run the 1080ti like we talked about, maybe just not stable, but I don't think it's that. I put the rx570 in and apex runs, obviously doesn't need much power in comparison does it
 
I sent back the 1080ti, decided to get a, new motherboard / CPU / ram. I have about £400 is that possible for something alright? Can go over a bit.
The GPU I will get something 2nd hand like a 4000 series, I will get a new PSU outside of that cost too. The 1080ti failed tests, so decided to change it all.

Thanks guys


And tamz yeah I did bios too mate.
 
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