Upgrade advice

Rothwell · 30 May 2020 at 11:49

Hi i was wondering if i could have some advice. Im looking to upgrade my desktop mainly for gaming purposes but im not too sure on what exactly needs upgrading or what specifically to upgrade with. my specs are

Desktop: Alienware x51 r2

Processor: 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-4440 Processor (6MB Cache, up to 3.3 GHz w/ Turbo Boost)

Video Card: 1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 645

Driver :WLAN Card DW1506 Driver

Hard Drive: 2TB (64MB Cache) 7200 RPM SATA 3Gb/s

Memory: 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1600Mhz

If i've missed anything please let me know.

bagel · 30 May 2020 at 12:30

Probably going to want to upgrade pretty much everything but at least GPU + SSD.

What games are you wanting to play and what resolution/frame rate is your monitor

Rothwell · 30 May 2020 at 12:37

1920×1080, 60 HZs and a variety but mainly total war games and world of Warcraft. Do you have any suggestions on what specifically i should get as upgrades

bagel · 30 May 2020 at 12:46

How much are you looking to spend?

Any modern graphics card would be a monumental upgrade on that 645 but you may have to check what wattage your power supply is to see what it can support.

SSD to boot windows off at least would make the computer a lot faster in general

Rothwell · 30 May 2020 at 12:52

so my power supply is 240W AC Adaptor, and in total im willing to spend £800-900.

bagel · 30 May 2020 at 13:15

Honestly in that case the best way to go is just to sell/repurpose that pc and build a whole new one.

Something like this would run rings around your current setup:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99
1 x ASUS TUF B450M-PLUS GAMING (Socket AM4) DDR4 MATX Motherboard= £83.99
1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TDGED4= £79.99
1 x Seasonic Core Gold GM-500 500W 80+ Gold Modular Power Supply= £74.99
1 x Zalman S3 Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £37.99
1 x TeamGroup 1TB Vulcan SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £99.95
1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 5600 XT Dragon RX 6144MB 14GBPS GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £269.99

Total: £840.09 (includes shipping: £13.20)

Rothwell · 30 May 2020 at 13:24

Ok thank you very much for the advice

. im a complete noob when it comes to desktops is that everything ill need to get it working or are their extras ill need to get.

bagel · 30 May 2020 at 13:41

No problem!

You'll need to make a windows 10 usb boot drive to install it onto your SSD: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/15088/windows-10-create-installation-media

Worth watching a few videos on how to put things together, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhX0fOUYd8Q

If you connect to internet with Wifi you'll need a usb dongle or you can get a motherboard with it built in (more expensive), but that's all the components you need

Rothwell · 30 May 2020 at 13:48

Ok great im most likely going to go to my freinds shop to build it, and what motherboard with wifi would you recomend. Sorry for all the questions haha.

bagel · 30 May 2020 at 14:03

Think this is supposed to be good but its quite a lot: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ocket-am4-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-33s-ms.html

I'd just look at a few and check the reviews