Finding Bottleneck of my system

Kryptonite700 · May 1, 2014

Here are my PC specs as of now:

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz, 2800 Mhz, 2 Cores
ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series
Installed RAM: 4gb
Availabe: 1.78gb
Windows x64

I know my PC is terrible, but I'm on a very limited budget and don't much about building PCs. So any help on where to start gradually replacing parts would be appreciated.

Instiinct · May 1, 2014

I would start off with adding more ram to your computer (8GB is more than enough). As for the video card, you might want to upgrade. It might be ever so slightly bottlenecking your computer. Also, dual cores are slowly getting old, but it might be one reason for a bottle neck.

skit75 · May 1, 2014

You would see or "feel" the biggest improvement from a GPU upgrade. Maybe a GTX 750 or GTX 750Ti. After that you are looking at a motherboard CPU and RAM upgrade all simultaneously.

unksol · May 1, 2014

4GB is plenty for that PC. 8GB is nice when building new but its not going to help or bottleneck performance... The GPU on the other hand. well that doesn't even really qualify as a GPU and needs replaced. might be able to find a cheap core 2 quad somewhere too

Onus · May 1, 2014

I agree with skit75. Assuming you would like to play games, your graphics card is your weakest component by far right now. What is your actual budget?
Any graphics card you buy today should have GDDR5, not DDR3. In ascending order of cost and performance, check out the GT640, R7 250, HD7750, GTX750, or GTX750Ti. None of them will require replacing your PSU.

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