HELP with Machine.

CresentChaos

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Approximate Purchase Date:

Budget Range: $100-$150

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Rendering Videos and Gfx Design.

Are you buying a monitor: No

Parts to Upgrade : CPU & RAM

Power Supply : Corsair RM650

Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com, ncix.com, Amazon.com

Location: Sacramento, California

Parts Preferences: CPU - Intel, RAM - Corsair/Anything that last a while

Overclocking: nope

SLI or Crossfire: No

Your Monitor Resolution: Dual Monitors Samsung 1920x1080 and a Dell 1280x1024

Additional Comments: Need To know how i can improve loading and rendering of both games and work. Do i need a better CPU or RAM ? If both which one.


Current Build :
Mother Board : ASRock Z77 Extreme3 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Power Supply : CORSAIR RM Series RM650 650W ATX12V v2.31 and EPS 2.92 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply

CPU Cooling : CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i Extreme Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler. 240mm

CPU : Intel Core i5-3350P Ivy Bridge 3.1GHz (3.3GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 69W Desktop Processor BX80637i53350P

Case : Corsair Carbide Series 300R Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Gtx Card : MSI Gaming N760 TF 4GD5/OC GeForce GTX 760 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card

RAM : Ramaxel 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model RMR5040ED58E9W-1600 Note : According to CPU-Z its 800MHz

Case Fans : COOLER MASTER A14025 140mm Black Case Fan, 3-Pin Power Connector 2 of these

SSD : SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 2.5" 120GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

HDD : Seagate Barracuda ST500DM002 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive 2 of these running in Raid 0


 

sirstinky

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You'd need to spend over $150 on just the CPU. For games it doesn't matter much to go over an i5, but for things like graphic design and rendering, you'd need at least an i7. You have LGA 1155, so you'd need to get the fastest i7 for that socket that's the 3770k. The hyper threading and extra cache makes a difference. For RAM, go 16 GB kit, 1600 MHz is fine. If you have two 4 GB sticks already, get two more of the same model. That's about $70. The other area that would help is the graphics card. The 760 is good, but the new 960 that replaces it is superior and the 970 is even better. So the i7 will run you about $300-$320, the RAM $60-70, and the graphics $200 (960) and $330 (970).
 

CresentChaos

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Yeah sorry that i didn't specify my question/ Do i need better ram and if yes which one can i get in the range of 100-200 ^-^ I know the i7 is like 300-500 and the GFX another 300-400