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What should i upgrade in my old pc??

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October 16, 2014 10:24:51 AM

i want to upgrade my pc with out replacing the mother board, Hard drive, or the case and for around 400$ give or take. ive looked at some parts alrdy but i would like your guys opinion. the pc specs are listed below
CPU: AMD Athlon II x2 240 regor,Core speed 2.8 Ghz (dual core)62w, socket am3 (938)
Mother Board: Pegatron Corporation, model Narra6 6.01, BIOS Version 5.17
Ram: 3G DDR3, DRAM Freq 535.6 Mhz, Dual Channel
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GT 610 1G
PSU: atm i dont know all the info of the power supply ill have to open the pc up and check then ill get back with that info but i know its only a 300w psu

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a b V Motherboard
October 16, 2014 10:37:05 AM

Not much you can do with that; upgrading it is not worth the money. Better to save another $200 or so and then you can build a whole new machine that will be far superior.
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October 16, 2014 11:47:31 AM

not sure what your goal is for the upgrade but do not think any new cpu you put on that mobo will be worth it.
that $400 would allow you a nice upgrade of mobo/cpu/ram and a new psu allowing you to reuse the other parts for now. this would give much more return for the money. more money gets you more but that 400 can actually get you a lot if you do your homework.

for instance newegg has this combo right now for just over $400 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?I...

will need another $50-60 for a psu but this is light years ahead of what you have now. can easily lower the cpu and get the psu in for the same $400. just something to ponder.
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a b V Motherboard
October 16, 2014 12:15:44 PM

for $450 you can build an apu build that will fit in your case and beat your old build hands down.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zYPhYJ $357 all you have to do is drop your hdd in it
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October 16, 2014 3:38:33 PM

Ty for all of ur opinions and im really digging that build NormH but would do u think of this build? http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/ i plan on upgrading it over time not to much but to keep up to date with all the games i play and for now i could just take my hdd and card from this pc and throw it in to that one?
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a b V Motherboard
October 16, 2014 3:50:21 PM

your parts list is blank on my end. but as far as keeping up with games as long as you are not trying to max out battlefield 4 or anything my build will keep up with current games and will be able to be upgraded in the future. you can disable the onboard graphics and add a graphics card which will greatly improve performance later but for now the apu has built in graphics on par with an hd 7750. if you re-link your parts list and post the breakdown id be happy to look at it.
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October 16, 2014 4:04:15 PM

http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/ if u still cant see it its AMD FX-6300 3.5ghz 6 core. MSI 970-G43 ATX AM3+ mother board. then its the same psu u pciked same ram and same opdrive but the case is a Corsair SPEC-03 red ATX Mid TOwer
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a b V Motherboard
October 16, 2014 4:28:51 PM

what graphics card are you going to use? the gt 610 will still gold you back. that's why I went with the apu so you can get better performance and the 6300 is not a true 6 core is 3 real and 3 virtual cores. the one I linked is 4 true cores. its overall a better processor and on amd's newest technology Kaveri. also the onboard graphics are far better than your current and you can still add a disctrete gpu later. hope this helps
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Yes it did Tyvm :) 
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