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TruckerJoe

TruckerJoe

TruckerJoe

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Hi forum members

Been a while since i was into PC gaming but slowly getting back into it. I like games such as ETS2, Minecraft and the odd bit of Fortnite.

To start me off i bought a ready built PC to replace a ageing small form factor Acer PC which wouldn't have been able to cope with Win 10, which was another reason for a upgrade.

So my starting setup is as follows:

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G using inbuilt Vega 11 graphics
AMD Wrath Spire CPU Cooler
2x 8gb adata DDR4 SDRAM
Gigabyte A320M-S2H Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 1tb HDD
Aero Bronze 80 Gold 500w PSU

Currently running mostly ETS2 at the minute on 1680x1050 medium to high settings at 30-50 fps

What im wondering is which would be best to start to upgrade, would it be getting a stand alone graphics card? Or perhaps the HDD to a M2 NVMe as my board supports it.

And another can of worms to open, which graphics card would be best suited below the £200 mark AMD or Nvidia?

This is how it Benchmarked:

UserBenchmarks: Game 26%, Desk 56%, Work 44%
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G - 73.2%
GPU: AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 Graphics - 19.2%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) - 102%
RAM: Adata 2x8GB - 78.3%
MBD: Gigabyte GA-A320M-S2H V2-CF

Thanks in advance
 
TruckerJoe said:
Can someone explain to my why that would be a quicker netter card than above as looking at its onboard Ram size, its smaller

Like I said back new to the game
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The 1660s is around 5-10% faster and pulls less power. It maybe worth considering power use if you game for 8 hours a day.
 
Before people start recommending graphics cards I'd like a bit more detail on that power supply - it'll have a label somewhere detailing the 12v rail in amps along with the make/model. If nothing else the make/model will do. A cheap (and the one you have is a budget model, make no mistake) PSU has the ability to take out other components if it goes bang so I'd be loath to take that one anywhere near its limit. Having said that if it's a pre-built it'll be under warranty which you'll need to look at before upgrading as doing so may invalidate any warranty you have.
 
ExRayTed said:
Before people start recommending graphics cards I'd like a bit more detail on that power supply - it'll have a label somewhere detailing the 12v rail in amps along with the make/model. If nothing else the make/model will do. A cheap (and the one you have is a budget model, make no mistake) PSU has the ability to take out other components if it goes bang so I'd be loath to take that one anywhere near its limit. Having said that if it's a pre-built it'll be under warranty which you'll need to look at before upgrading as doing so may invalidate any warranty you have.
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But it's a Aero Cool Integrator 500W

This is the supply I have. Says on it 80% Bronze efficiency
 
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You will have to remove the link as its not allowed to post competitor links as this site is run by OCUK.

That said its not a great quality psu.
 
On another note on the specs of my PC. Would it be better to upgrade to a SSD drive or M2 SSD for starts then look into graphics later. I'm reading that it would boost the PC for starters from a traditions Disk Drive.
 
TruckerJoe said:
On another note on the specs of my PC. Would it be better to upgrade to a SSD drive or M2 SSD for starts then look into graphics later. I'm reading that it would boost the PC for starters from a traditions Disk Drive.
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Yeah, an SSD will definitely improve your Experience.
 
That will speed the system up considerably, although to be honest you'll see no real world difference between that and a regular SSD. You could get a terabyte SSD for not much more than that - capacity every time :)
 
Danny75 said:
Agree with @ExRayTed £87 for 500GB is not good value for money these days.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £118.69 (includes shipping: £8.70)
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See what you mean but been looking at them and the Read/Write speeds was much slower and also the Barracuda comes with Clone software. And again i got the same one listed in my last post for 70 quid so cant argue really.

On a later note I may have a second SSD attached via Sata for general file storage and installed programs. But for now the 500gb is plenty big enough for mostly a boot drive.
 
Well the Seagate Barracuda NVMe drive arrived today and within 30min it was installed, cloned and booted from.

And what can I say, what i difference. From Bios screen until full system start 8 seconds.

So now just been cleaning the "old" drive and using it for saved games and general storage, After doing a spot of reading about managed to transfer my steam installs to the new drive.

Now for some saving up and looking about at graphics cards again in which this one isnt looking bad

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £184.90 (includes shipping: £9.90)
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