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Hi
I'm looking to upgrade my PC that I originally built back in 2013. Really I just want to put a new graphics card in and maybe some more memory, specs below:
Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Intel Core i3-4130 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gbs Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9)
Cooler Master K280 Midi Tower Case - Black (RC-K280-KKN1)
Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK)
Edit: Graphics are integrated Intel HD Graphics 4400 2GB
This was originally designed as a nice word processing / browsing sort of build but now I'd like to play some games with higher specs... so just wondering what I can get away with on the PSU situation. Also can you ever have too much memory? If I shoved 16GB in would that blow my mind?
Thanks in advance
DH
I'm looking to upgrade my PC that I originally built back in 2013. Really I just want to put a new graphics card in and maybe some more memory, specs below:
Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Intel Core i3-4130 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gbs Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9)
Cooler Master K280 Midi Tower Case - Black (RC-K280-KKN1)
Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK)
Edit: Graphics are integrated Intel HD Graphics 4400 2GB
This was originally designed as a nice word processing / browsing sort of build but now I'd like to play some games with higher specs... so just wondering what I can get away with on the PSU situation. Also can you ever have too much memory? If I shoved 16GB in would that blow my mind?
Thanks in advance
DH
