Hello,
I bought a cheap Acer Aspire XC-780 in a hurry a year ago as I needed it for work.
It is an: i5 7400, h110 motherboard (not sure if its a proprietary one or if I could move it to a different case), 8GB DDR4 (2x4GB), inbuilt graphics, 1TB SATA HDD and my only upgrade a 256GB m.2 SSD which I am running Windows off (Windows 10).
The system gets very laggy at times and I have been trying to find the most cost effective way to upgrade it rather than getting a whole new system. No gaming will be done but it runs my trading software with lots of charts and constantly updated data etc plus chrome open with 5-10 tabs, sometimes videos playing or music and maybe the other odd app running as well being connected to 3 monitors (one via USB as it only has 2x HDMI out).
I was originally just going to upgrade to 16GB RAM which I am sure would give a noticeable boost but I find watching a video slows the system down if everything else is running which I think is partly due to the integrated GPU with shared memory, but due to the case design I doubt I could get a new GPU in there as its tiny and also the PSU I think is just a 300 watt no name job.
I can see the current processor is Skylake but having a look at the prices for a better processor they are all over £150 which seems very expensive considering the age unless I am looking at the wrong kind?
Is it worth buying a new CPU/Mobo/Ram/GFX combo and just putting it all in a new case or should I salvage the current CPU/Mobo and move that to a new case + RAM and a GFX card?
Any help appreciated.
Thank you.
I bought a cheap Acer Aspire XC-780 in a hurry a year ago as I needed it for work.
It is an: i5 7400, h110 motherboard (not sure if its a proprietary one or if I could move it to a different case), 8GB DDR4 (2x4GB), inbuilt graphics, 1TB SATA HDD and my only upgrade a 256GB m.2 SSD which I am running Windows off (Windows 10).
The system gets very laggy at times and I have been trying to find the most cost effective way to upgrade it rather than getting a whole new system. No gaming will be done but it runs my trading software with lots of charts and constantly updated data etc plus chrome open with 5-10 tabs, sometimes videos playing or music and maybe the other odd app running as well being connected to 3 monitors (one via USB as it only has 2x HDMI out).
I was originally just going to upgrade to 16GB RAM which I am sure would give a noticeable boost but I find watching a video slows the system down if everything else is running which I think is partly due to the integrated GPU with shared memory, but due to the case design I doubt I could get a new GPU in there as its tiny and also the PSU I think is just a 300 watt no name job.
I can see the current processor is Skylake but having a look at the prices for a better processor they are all over £150 which seems very expensive considering the age unless I am looking at the wrong kind?
Is it worth buying a new CPU/Mobo/Ram/GFX combo and just putting it all in a new case or should I salvage the current CPU/Mobo and move that to a new case + RAM and a GFX card?
Any help appreciated.
Thank you.