- Oct 25, 2013
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I've slowly turned a 2010 store bought cheap desktop PC into a low end gaming PC and the half ass job I did back then just isn't cutting it now. I purchased a few items two years ago with a smaller budget.
My Computer:
Processor - Crappy from original
Motherboard - Crappy from original
Power Supply - 600w Corsair (model coming soon)
Video Card - GeForce GTX460 SE
Hard Disk - Crappy from original, Probably not even 500GB.
Tower - Coolermaster (pretty cool midsize)
Monitor - Old Samsung with like 5 ms, very out dated but still does well.
RAM - 8GB
So I'm looking into the future at lump sum of money and was wondering how I could effectively budget some upgrades to my PC.
The main question I have. Would purchasing another GTX460 SE (cheaply, maybe even used) and using an SLI function to link them together be a good cost effective starting route?
When I say gaming its pretty limited to your WOW or Rift MMO type games. Not as demanding as the crazy FPS games out there right now.
Some of the other upgrade options I've explored are listed below.
Switching to Intel over AMD.
New Processor - Intel Core i5-3570 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 77W
New Motherboard - Cheaper $100-120 Asus Z77 model
New Ram - G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB)
New HDD - Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
I know I've gone all over the place in this but I'm really trying to use a few of my existing pieces to save some money on a PC build but at the same time churn out a nicer PC for $500-700.
Any thoughts or recommendations?
My Computer:
Processor - Crappy from original
Motherboard - Crappy from original
Power Supply - 600w Corsair (model coming soon)
Video Card - GeForce GTX460 SE
Hard Disk - Crappy from original, Probably not even 500GB.
Tower - Coolermaster (pretty cool midsize)
Monitor - Old Samsung with like 5 ms, very out dated but still does well.
RAM - 8GB
So I'm looking into the future at lump sum of money and was wondering how I could effectively budget some upgrades to my PC.
The main question I have. Would purchasing another GTX460 SE (cheaply, maybe even used) and using an SLI function to link them together be a good cost effective starting route?
When I say gaming its pretty limited to your WOW or Rift MMO type games. Not as demanding as the crazy FPS games out there right now.
Some of the other upgrade options I've explored are listed below.
Switching to Intel over AMD.
New Processor - Intel Core i5-3570 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 77W
New Motherboard - Cheaper $100-120 Asus Z77 model
New Ram - G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB)
New HDD - Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
I know I've gone all over the place in this but I'm really trying to use a few of my existing pieces to save some money on a PC build but at the same time churn out a nicer PC for $500-700.
Any thoughts or recommendations?
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