I have an 8-year old PC that I’m looking to upgrade – I had planned to replace it this year, but times being what they are, I’m trying to limit my costs for now. Having never done this before, I have some questions that I hope someone can help me with.
I mainly use the PC for work, with limited gaming, and looking to add extra RAM and upgrade the graphics card. The current set-up is as follows:
CPU: i5-3570 (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-MX
RAM: 8GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 X 8GB) (M378B1G73BH0-CH9)
GPU: 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 610
If I want to add a second 8gb memory card, does this have to be identical? I have searched for an identical Samsung memory card, but these seem difficult to find, and I’m wondering whether I need to pay for 2 new memory cards and ditch the old one.
The second question relates to the graphics card – I was planning to swap to a GTX 1050 card. The only one in stock is the Palit Geforce GTX 1050TI STORMX 4096MB. Is that going to be compatible?
Any advice gratefully received.
I mainly use the PC for work, with limited gaming, and looking to add extra RAM and upgrade the graphics card. The current set-up is as follows:
CPU: i5-3570 (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-MX
RAM: 8GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 X 8GB) (M378B1G73BH0-CH9)
GPU: 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 610
If I want to add a second 8gb memory card, does this have to be identical? I have searched for an identical Samsung memory card, but these seem difficult to find, and I’m wondering whether I need to pay for 2 new memory cards and ditch the old one.
The second question relates to the graphics card – I was planning to swap to a GTX 1050 card. The only one in stock is the Palit Geforce GTX 1050TI STORMX 4096MB. Is that going to be compatible?
Any advice gratefully received.
