- Nov 26, 2013
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Hello everyone! I have a computer I built a few years ago for 900$. Before you say anything, when I bought it I had almost no idea of how to do it, so I mostly blindly followed the advice of my local PC component shop (Big fail, I know). After all, I ended up with this setting:
CPU - QuadCore Intel Core i7 920, 650 MHz (12 x 54)
Motherboard - Asus P6T (2 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 3 PCI-E x16, 6 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN,
IEEE-1394)
RAM (4Gb) -2x 2 GB DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz) (7-7-7-20 @ 533 MHz)
(6-6-6-17 @ 457 MHz)
Graphics -NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 (512 MB)
Well, this thing worked like a rocket when I first bought it, but now for this last year the performance has been going lower and lower, so I want to improve it (I hope it's still possible to do so, as it would be impossible for me to afford building another computer from scratch). What I'm not sure about, it's what to upgrade right now to improve performance while keeping a low budget.
I first thought in adding more RAM, because I thought I couldn't go wrong with that, but I don't know if the difference in performance is gonna be big enough.
The other option would be getting a better Graphic card, since every gamer now is using a GTX series, but I'm not sure if I should do it because I don't know how expensive it could be, and i don't want to end buying a slightly better graphic card that will stay "up to date" for the next year or less, then having to buy a new one again. Also a friend told me about buying another graphic card and running both cards at the same time, is this plausible? Will I end up with "double performance" (I know it will never be really double, understand me) or will it just give me a headache of problems?
Sorry for the long post, thank you for just reading it. I would be very happy if I could get some help with this! By the way, the two upgrade options I said are just from the very few things I know about building computers. If you think there could be a better thing of upgrading it, please tell me!
P.S. I know you are gonna ask for my budget. I don't really know, I could say 200$, but I have no idea of how expensive this could be so I would apreciate much if you could also tell me how much money should I expect to expend on this, how much do you think a "low budget" and a "reasonable busget" are?
P.S. 2 - English is not my native language, so I'm really sorry if it's hard to read or bad written. If you don't understand something, or think that it could be better explained, feel free to tell me so I can improve it ^^
CPU - QuadCore Intel Core i7 920, 650 MHz (12 x 54)
Motherboard - Asus P6T (2 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 3 PCI-E x16, 6 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN,
IEEE-1394)
RAM (4Gb) -2x 2 GB DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz) (7-7-7-20 @ 533 MHz)
(6-6-6-17 @ 457 MHz)
Graphics -NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 (512 MB)
Well, this thing worked like a rocket when I first bought it, but now for this last year the performance has been going lower and lower, so I want to improve it (I hope it's still possible to do so, as it would be impossible for me to afford building another computer from scratch). What I'm not sure about, it's what to upgrade right now to improve performance while keeping a low budget.
I first thought in adding more RAM, because I thought I couldn't go wrong with that, but I don't know if the difference in performance is gonna be big enough.
The other option would be getting a better Graphic card, since every gamer now is using a GTX series, but I'm not sure if I should do it because I don't know how expensive it could be, and i don't want to end buying a slightly better graphic card that will stay "up to date" for the next year or less, then having to buy a new one again. Also a friend told me about buying another graphic card and running both cards at the same time, is this plausible? Will I end up with "double performance" (I know it will never be really double, understand me) or will it just give me a headache of problems?
Sorry for the long post, thank you for just reading it. I would be very happy if I could get some help with this! By the way, the two upgrade options I said are just from the very few things I know about building computers. If you think there could be a better thing of upgrading it, please tell me!
P.S. I know you are gonna ask for my budget. I don't really know, I could say 200$, but I have no idea of how expensive this could be so I would apreciate much if you could also tell me how much money should I expect to expend on this, how much do you think a "low budget" and a "reasonable busget" are?
P.S. 2 - English is not my native language, so I'm really sorry if it's hard to read or bad written. If you don't understand something, or think that it could be better explained, feel free to tell me so I can improve it ^^
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