Minimum required upgrades?

[Brad Anderson]

Firstly, thanks for taking the time to have a look at this.

I purchased an overclockers setup c2014 and its been working away steadily ever since. I'm thinking now might be a good time to get a couple of upgrades.

I’ve got very limited experience building/tinkering with computers so the more “plug and play” the upgrades are the better!

ideally looking for something between £300-500

my current build has the following:

Geoforce GTX 750 TI

ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G

AMD Pile driver FX 4 Quad Core 4300 3.80GHZ

Team group elite black 8Gb DDR3 RAM

Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 80 plus bronze power supply

Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB 6GB/s HDD

Thanks again!

 

[Minibiker]

What is it you want to achieve with your new components?

Better gaming experience?

 

[Brad Anderson]

Yea, affordable gaming. Granted this is very ambiguous, but I’d like to play current gen games on at least medium graphics

 

[Minibiker]

Yea, affordable gaming. Granted this is very ambiguous, but I’d like to play current gen games on at least medium graphics

I'd be considering moving to AM4, Something along the lines of:

Ryzen 3600
MSI B450 MAX motherboard
Team Group Vulcan 16gb 3600

And maybe consider upgrading the PSU to a nice reliable 550w, you may have to hold onto the GPU for a while longer but it will help having that extra RAM speed and CPU power

 

[heatonpkmassive]

As above, time to upgrade to an AM4 system.

 

[Lemin]

Good advice in this thred....
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/500-1080p-gaming-for-a-friend.18882896/