Please help with upgrading components

smittendevil

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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:

    ■ 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!
 
Since you have an H67 chipset just leave the graphics card out and use the onboard graphics

If that works the mb is fine . If it doesnt work then you have to consider the psu . I havent read your previous thread .

To make this a good gamer for 2014 all you really need to upgrade is the graphics card . A GTX 760 should play any game on high settings at 1080p
 

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Thanks for the suggestion; I tried that back then and the problem persisted.

I've given the GTX760 some thought, too, might bite the bullet there.