Clueless but looking to upgrade

Michael Griffin

Michael Griffin

Michael Griffin

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Hi guys,

I bought a PC from Overclockers in March 2014 and was looking at potentially upgrading in the very near future. I was hoping to get some advice on what would give me the biggest boost in performance for PC gaming (what I should upgrade first) and some suggested products at low, medium, high end price points.
I would also appreciate advice on what to upgrade next afterwards and similair advice on products as I am looking to make several upgrades over the coming months.

My current build is:

MSI GeForce GTX 760 OC Gaming Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD
TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6350 Black Edition 3.90GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor
No Sound Card.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.
 
Right i'll decide your budget :) £1,000-1,200 is now your budget as i know that is a plenty amount of money for a decent spec pc with a bigger boost in performance.

Going to do a build..it will be tower only.

edit here is the build.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,213.43
(includes shipping: £12.60)




Short summary,

The 1600 ryzen is future proof and beats the i5 7600k when all of it's 6 cores are used and you can overclock it with the stock cooler if you want.

The motherboard has an updated bios so the 1600 processor will work out of the box thanks danny75 on another thread.

1 ssd for os and 1 hdd for storage.

Modular power supply so you can remove cables you don't want and is a decent power supply.

Gtx 1070 which is on offer for 350 which is a good price and the price all gtx 1070's should be at and will be fine for 1440p gaming on high/ultra.

16gb of ram which will be plenty for gaming at the moment.

The case has a installed fan and you could get more fans if you want, as well as a dvd/optical drive

But i must point out that coffeelake of intel will be releaseing new processors very soon as well as amd vega they will release new graphics cards very soon as well, so you could wait and see if they are a better deal.​

Low medium and high eh of your total budget well i consider this to be medium and the right amount of money for a decent pc which will play games on high or ultra, at the very least it is 1k-1.2k with me here but despite that i consider it to be entry level for acceptable gaming performance 60fps @ high or ultra such as the gtx 1060 @ 1080p gtx 1060 and 1080 p to me is what i consider entry level for a gamer.

As for your system i would just buy a totally brand new pc tower, you could reuse that hard drive you have got though, save a bit of money.

Price of pc components have gone up by quite a lot have to say, then in the past.

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lltfdaniel said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,213.43
(includes shipping: £12.60)



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I would avoid that SSD at all costs as it is pretty poor. They (Kingston) did a bait and switch on that particular SSD. Also a 4TB HDD is a bit excessive. I would go with a 1TB - 2TB and get a bigger SSD. The op can also probably reuse the current 1TB Seagate.

You can also save £20 on the psu by going with a 550W Leadex Gold.

As for the DVD drive it would be better to go with an external one if the op still needs one and then it can be kept in a drawer if not in use.
 
I would single out the graphics card as your first upgrade. A Graphics card is simple to replace and will produce really positive results. So the first target would be a GTX 1060. That will me a massive upgrade from the 760. If you are really feeling flash then a 1070, but definitely no lower than a 1060 for gaming.
Second, oddly, you may want to consider an SSD for your operating system. Keep your old drive but transfer the system to an SSD. Most SSD's come with the software to do that. It's wont speed up gameplay but it will massively decrease load times for the operating system which will just make your PC feel like a new PC.
The final option is the CPU, Motherboard, RAM, and cooler. I can't argue with lltfdaniel there, but I put this as a last option because of the complexity/difficulty of the task. I would also suggest that when you do this you buy a new case. Install the new motherboard in the new case. It's easier to do things that way and it also means your PC has an all new feel to it. And if it all goes horribly wrong your old PC is still mostly intact! As for the case, go for something like a Phanteks P400 which is not only amazingly good looking but a really easy to build with. Don't let the budget price put you off.
 
Regardless of what you do, the CPU is still a turtle. It was horrible when it came out, and is doubly horrible by today's standards. AMD no longer sucks. Ryzen CPUs are actually very good and are sold at very reasonable prices. I would suggest a full system upgrade to be honest.

If you don't want to do that, get a faster GPU and an SSD and more RAM, but you will be held back by your turtle horrible CPU. And the RAM you buy (at today's absurd RAM prices) will be useless when you upgrade because your mobo uses DDR3 and everything now is DDR4. Sorry but them's the breaks.
 
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I would avoid that SSD at all costs as it is pretty poor. They (Kingston) did a bait and switch on that particular SSD. Also a 4TB HDD is a bit excessive. I would go with a 1TB - 2TB and get a bigger SSD. The op can also probably reuse the current 1TB Seagate.

You can also save £20 on the psu by going with a 550W Leadex Gold.

As for the DVD drive it would be better to go with an external one if the op still needs one and then it can be kept in a drawer if not in use.
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Thanks for the heads up again :).

Yes op's current processor is kind of rubbish it will be quite a quantum leap by going with ryzen 5 1600.
 
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