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NeurAxaL

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HI,i have £120 saved up ($195) and its nearly my birthday, so i was thinking, what should i upgrade next?

CPU: Pentium G2030
RAM: 2GB (Probably this)
GPU: GTX 650Ti
250GB WD HDD- How to add as a slave drive?
MOBO: H81M P33 (pretty much non upgradable, it is a motherboard.)
Intel stock cooler- I want a zalman 9900 max blue, as my case has a windtunnel

thanks. NeurAxaL
 
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H81 is a fine motherboard, can't overclock, but you don't have to. Can drop any of the later CPUs into it up through the i7-4790k, but that is a little extreme.

Certainly pick yourself up a 2x8GB memory kit. GTX650Ti is fine for medium/high settings in most games, not 60fps, but playable. Lower resolutions and settings will get you good FPS in almost anything.

If you buy another hard drive you will have to clone your OS to the new one, or install a fresh copy of Windows. So such thing as master/slave drives with SATA, you can plug in as many drives as you have ports.

Long term recommendation would be to get an i5-4430 , i5-4440, i5-4460, or i5-4570. As mentioned before your board will accept any of the 4th generation Haswell chips...
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Well, you definitely have to upgrade the processor, mobo and ram. The GPU could hold off a bit, but it doesn't really contend in today's market either. Like as far as HDD goes, yeah it's really really small, but it's not a dire upgrade requirement at the moment. But when you do, I'd just leave it and add like 240GB SSD. Or a smaller one in addition to 500GB HDD.

For proper upgrades to happen you need to update those three components at once, and that'd cost a little of course.

You'd want a z97 mobo, a 4th gen i5 even at stock and at least 2x 4GB DDR3 sticks of ram. Save where you can(on the ram obviously)

After all is said and done you can decide how much money you'd want to allocate to a GPU. Price vs performance
 
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H81 is a fine motherboard, can't overclock, but you don't have to. Can drop any of the later CPUs into it up through the i7-4790k, but that is a little extreme.

Certainly pick yourself up a 2x8GB memory kit. GTX650Ti is fine for medium/high settings in most games, not 60fps, but playable. Lower resolutions and settings will get you good FPS in almost anything.

If you buy another hard drive you will have to clone your OS to the new one, or install a fresh copy of Windows. So such thing as master/slave drives with SATA, you can plug in as many drives as you have ports.

Long term recommendation would be to get an i5-4430 , i5-4440, i5-4460, or i5-4570. As mentioned before your board will accept any of the 4th generation Haswell chips, and possibly Broadwell when it is released.

 
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thanks, i may hold off on the processor, as the pricing is a little steep, and i think the ram is holding my system back more than the CPU. The GPU is fine, i can play bf3 on high, so i am very happy with it. the only other thing is my psu. it is the one thing that makes noticeable noise in my case, any quiet 500w psu reccomendations?
thanks.

 
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