I have a PC that I built/upgraded about 3 years ago has been out of commission for several months and I am now on the path to resurrecting it. I was hoping to get some opinions from the experts on what to upgrade, since I am not up to date on what is what anymore.
Here are the existing components (some components are clearly from even older builds):
While I never figured out the problem 6 months ago (for those truly interested in learning more about the problems, they can visit this thread), I recently had someone take a look at it and run some tests, and we have come to the conclusion that the problem is likely either the motherboard or the power supply. The graphics card was also just lying around exposed for a few months, so that may be broken, too (but this is unconfirmed).
My main machine these days is a mid-2013 MacBook Air, but I've started playing D3:RoS lately and it's really not ideal to play on the MBA. Hence the motivation to resurrect the PC. I'd honestly like to spend as little as possible - if I'm going to spend $500-600, I might as well spring for a new machine entirely; my thoughts are that I can still coax some life out of this machine instead. I'm not a hardcore PC gamer and I do some photo/video editing.
I would sincerely appreciate suggestions on:
Apologies for the long post and I sincerely appreciate anyone who takes the time to read it and reply!
Here are the existing components (some components are clearly from even older builds):
■ CPU: Intel i5-2400 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz (3.4GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core
■ Motherboard: MSI H67MA-E35 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel H67 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX
■ RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
■ Graphics Card: MSI R5770 Hawk Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16
■ HDD (Boot disk): OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTX60G 2.5" 60GB SATA II
■ Power Supply: OCZ Modstream 520
■ Miscellaneous others: WD VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"; various other hard drives (including at least one IDE, some PATA and older SATA); Audigy 2 sound card; 2x DVD-R (both are IDE); Antec P180 case
While I never figured out the problem 6 months ago (for those truly interested in learning more about the problems, they can visit this thread), I recently had someone take a look at it and run some tests, and we have come to the conclusion that the problem is likely either the motherboard or the power supply. The graphics card was also just lying around exposed for a few months, so that may be broken, too (but this is unconfirmed).
My main machine these days is a mid-2013 MacBook Air, but I've started playing D3:RoS lately and it's really not ideal to play on the MBA. Hence the motivation to resurrect the PC. I'd honestly like to spend as little as possible - if I'm going to spend $500-600, I might as well spring for a new machine entirely; my thoughts are that I can still coax some life out of this machine instead. I'm not a hardcore PC gamer and I do some photo/video editing.
I would sincerely appreciate suggestions on:
■ What motherboard to get
■ What power supply to get
■ Anything else that desperately needs replacing
■ General thoughts on whether I should even be salvaging this machine, especially if I also have to replace the graphics card
Apologies for the long post and I sincerely appreciate anyone who takes the time to read it and reply!