Help me upgrade my horrible computer

ThatStonerKid

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my computer is complete sh!t, and i really want too upgrade it as best i could. Im not a hardcore gamer, but i'd like too be able too run games like Wow on Medium-ish settings and minecraft at decent fps (i get playable fps atm)

Minecraft with optifine - 25-35

Wow (World Of Warcraft) - Low Settings - 30-40 fps in the open and in crowded villages, 10-20.

apparently, the motherboard is based off of the AMD A45 FCH chipset.

the processor is an AMD E1-1500

The graphics card is an integrated one, the amd radeon hd 7310.

The Power supply is only 220w (Read till the bottom)

6gb of ram

windows 8 64 bit

and the case itself is a gateway compaq case.

i know not alot of parts fit into compaq cases, and all of the parts are crap, but i am willing too upgrade whatever i need too to do mid level gaming.

also, in a previous thread regarding the graphics card for this, Mike_Tech posted this "I've been doing some digging and some models of these Gateway units appear to come with a PCI-E slot as there's a few different revisions of the same model.

The sub-model UW308 for example comes with a single physical PCI-E 16x slot - however these slots appear to support 4x speed only so although a card would fit, it would probably not run very well :/ (And it would need to be a half-height card also)"

if you guys need too know anything im ready too answer. any help is greatly appreciated.
 

Rugnir_Viking

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By the sounds of thngs you have an old, very low-end pc. While it might be possible to upgrade a little, I would suggest you get a brand new case and motherboard and processor. Basically start again. Sure it sounds like you could save a little money but you can only upgrade to old parts with that system and any graphics card you might add wouldn't run at it's full potential.
Perhaps with a budget for the upgrade/new build I could start having a look around for you. Also where are you from because that affects pricing.
 

ThatStonerKid

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i'd say my budget for a decent gaming pc would be $400ish
 

Rugnir_Viking

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($98.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($44.38 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($32.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($26.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: VisionTek Radeon HD 7770 1GB Video Card ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($38.98 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer ($12.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $394.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-30 04:30 EDT-0400

That looks like the sort of thing you might like. A solid upgrade over what you had before. For wow and minecraft it should deliver pretty good fps.
The only small thing is the ram and hard drive but you can move any ram and hard drives you have already in your computer to the new one for more storage/memory etc.
 
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ThatStonerKid

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Everything looks solid other than the storage and the ram. i could probably spring as much as i need too upgrade the storage too 1tb and the ram to 8gb

 

Rugnir_Viking

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Do that then :) The storage and ram are not really as important to the system specs, but you should decide how much you're gonna use :) I would recommend putting to old hard drive from your previous computer into the new one as well, for extra storage and you won't have to reinstall all your programs.