Upgrade to current gaming PC

[Stokie05]

Hi all, I hope everyone is well. I am looking for some advice on my current pc setup. I bought this pc a couple of years back from Currys as a gaming pc (I know, my mistake)! I am fairly new and learning around components, hence the post here. My current pc has the following:

Processor- AMD 6-core RYZEN 5 3500
Graphics- NVIDIA GeForce GTX1650 4GB
Memory- 16GB DDR4 Memory
Hard Drive- 1TB

It will no doubt be very basic compared to most. My son is getting into PC gaming (more than what I play at the moment). He plays the likes of Fortnite, racing games etc along with flight sims. Could I upgrade these parts or would I be better off starting from scratch? I am looking to make the pc perform better and quicker. It takes a while to start up and even when browsing, it takes a while for the windows to open! Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[Stokie05]

Hi and welcome.

Can you tell us what name and model of the pc so we can check what spec ?

Mainly to see what case , motherboard and power supply it has.

Alternative download cpuz and click on motherboard it should tell us , power supply you would have to look in the case

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Hi, The make and model are:

Make- Acer
Model- Nitro N50-110

 

[Stokie05]

Is it a hard drive or SSD?
What motherboard do you have? a cheap CPU upgrade could help. What cooler do you have?
What is your budget?

Very likely a cheapish upgrade is feasible. A list of specs and model number of all components would help.

Hi Rob,

It is a hard drive (I had thought of upgrading this to SSD). I am not sure on the cooler, I would need to check.

Ok.

According to the spec it has a 500w psu and the motherboard is an Acer special.. use cpuid and tell me what motherboard it is.

Looks like the hard drive is an old mechanical drive so maybe you could add an SSD which would make a big difference if you can get your operating system and games on it .

Do you have the ability to do this ?

Graphics card upgrade but that depends on the PSU connections .

Hi Micky, The motherboard details are:

Acer N50-110
Bus specs- PCI-Expree 4.0
Chipset- AMD Ryzen SOC
Southbridge- AMD X570
LPCIO- ITE IT8732

Is that what you wanted?

 

[Stokie05]

Yeah, I got that from cpuid.

 

[Stokie05]

Hard drive info from program:

ST1000DM010-2EP102
Manufacturer- Seagate
Heads 16
Cylinders 121,601
Tracks 31,008,255
Sectors 1,953,520,065
SATA type SATA-III 6.0Gb/s
Device type Fixed
ATA Standard ATA8-ACS
Serial Number ZN1LF36N
Firmware Version Number CC46
LBA Size 48-bit LBA
Power On Count 165 times
Power On Time 9.2 days
Speed 7200 RPM
Features S.M.A.R.T., APM, NCQ
Max. Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s
Used Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s
Interface SATA
Capacity 931 GB
Real size 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
RAID Type None

 

[Stokie05]

Yes it's an old mechanical drive so an SSD would be beneficial , you could just install an SSD or clone it so it CPUs over everything from your old drive, but are you confident to do that.

So what's your budget for upgrades ?

GPU and SSD is where you would gain most performance.

Thanks Micky, I am not sure if i would do the clone so install of SSD would probably be the way. Budget wise, i would like to keep it realistic. What would you suggest?