Time for some upgrades? What is junk and what is ok to keep from this list

r18rws · 31 Aug 2020 at 10:33

Hi, could you suggest a good upgrade, not been touched since 2015. I have a big tower unit so anything will fit in I guess.

Currently its

CPU AMD A8-6600k APU 3.90Ghz 4MB

MBoard F2A88XM-D3H

Video (think it on the board) AMD Radeon HD 8570D

Memory 15554MB (1866)

If this should all be good enough then a SSD might be first step to speed stuff up as running normal HDD at the moment.

Not looking to do anything too complicated, mainly cropping and joining some videos from drone footage and general computer stuff. The footage is h265 4k 60fps though so may need some solid stuff inside to keep up.

Thanks

Rich

EsaT · 31 Aug 2020 at 18:27

To put it short that's junk for anything computationally intensive.
Though for video stream copy SSD would speed it up lot compared to some who knows how old and slow "spinning rust".

Case is probably only one good.
Though there's chance of it being outdated dozen+ years ago PSU at top design...

heatonpkmassive · 31 Aug 2020 at 18:53

I'd probably replace the lot, how much are you looking to spend?

r18rws · 2 Sep 2020 at 08:59

Update - I added a SSD and new GPU, and all up and running again with better results. Should be enough to get me through a year or so, then the SSD at least will still be useful for the next build.
Thanks for the suggestions and input