Upgrading an old Inspiron 570. From Sempron to...?

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Hello all. I have a trusty Dell Inspiron 570 that has been going strong for about 7 years. I don't really want to replace it, but with Windows 10 and other software changes over the years it's starting to struggle. It frequently hits and stays at 100% CPU usage when doing standard multitasking (internet plus Office etc), can't play anything on YouTube at 720p or above etc.

Currently it has...

AMD Sempron 140
Dell 04GJJT motherboard, chipset 785G
4GB DDR3 @ 533MHz
2GB ATI Radeon HD 4200 (Dell)
298GB WDC 7200 RPM SATA hard drive (with 7,000 power ons and 414 days of on time according to Speccy)
OEM 300W power supply

I believe the MB socket is AM3, and Dell said this is a list of suitable processors I can upgrade to...

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Bang for buck wise, what do you recommend? I'd like the PC to be able to handle image creation/editing (Photoshop, Illustrator), multitasking etc. I don't plan to add a video card at the moment, and don't think there's really space either.

Perhaps a new processor, 8GB of RAM and an SSD?

How about the 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) in the Overclockers store?

How soon until the PSU would need upgrading?

Thanks for the advice everyone. I know it's not an exciting high end build, but it's served me well so far!
 
 
You're going to have a really hard time sourcing anything for something that age unless you get lucky in the second hand market.

As suggested above, it probably is time for a new build.

It might even be worth waiting to see how AMDs new APUs behave. If they are half decent then they work on the new AM4 platform and supposedly have half decent onboard graphics.
 
Had a quick look around dell forums and I see people fitting a phenom 965 into that.
The avg passmark of your sempron is only 738 whereas the phenom 965 is 4200+. There is one on ebay buy it now for about £35.
Building a whole new ryzen pc would make a much more powerful and upgradable system of course but for a quick and fairly cheap fix that phenom would change that pc entirely.
 
Get the quad in the list which can be had cheap enough, max the ram out which I gather be 8gb, get an ssd, if you have the tower with atx psu then swap that out for a 400-500w, grab a 1060 or 570 if you can afford/find one or just grab an R9 380.

£40 for processor or less
£15-20 for ram depending where
£30-50 for psu depending where
£30-70 for ssd depending size and new or used
£80-130 for 380 depending on the finds

So your looking at 300-350 for decent upgrades to the dell unless you find them for cheaper.

A ryzen build which would be much better would set you back double or triple the dell upgrade and your dell will is still capable.
 
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