What PC Parts Should I Upgrade for £70

Harry28181 · Sep 29, 2016

I have got around £70 to spare on computer parts. I want to buy one or two new components just so i can relive the experience of building/installing PC. Here are my current specs:

MSI 970-A G43 Motherboard.
2x4GB DDR3 HyperX Fury Black 1866mhz RAM.
Gigabyte Windforce OC Edition GTX 950 GPU.
AMD FX-6300 Processor (Not Overclocked).
Corsair CX-500M Power Supply.
1TB WD BLUE Hard Drive.
240GB Kingston SSD.
Cooler Master Seidon 120V CPU COOLER.
2x Corsair AF120 Fans.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

logainofhades · Sep 30, 2016

Get a better quality power supply. The CX500 is not a very good unit.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£64.98 @ YoYoTech)
Total: £64.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-30 14:22 BST+0100

Harry28181 · Sep 30, 2016

logainofhades :

Thanks for the reply. I forgot to mention, around christmas time, im going to upgrade my motherboard, gpu and cpu. I dont really want to spend that amount of money on a PSU that might not be powerful enough to handle my future upgrades. Thanks for the idea though!

logainofhades · Sep 30, 2016

What are you thinking of upgrading to?

Harry28181 · Sep 30, 2016

logainofhades :

I was planning to get a GTX 1060, im not sure whether i wanna stick with AMD or switch to intel for motherboard and CPU though.

logainofhades · Sep 30, 2016

You would be better off with Intel, unless Zen comes out a bit early, and proves to be competitive. That 520w PSU would be enough for a GTX 1060, and any 6th gen Intel CPU. The GTX 1060 is not a power hungry card.

spat55 · Sep 30, 2016

I'd just keep the money don't worry about upgrading the PSU it will be fine. When you upgrade some other parts I'd suggest changing it out though. When upgrade time comes I'd get a new GPU first then consider doing the CPU/Mobo/RAM.

Harry28181 · Oct 1, 2016

spat55 :

Ok, thanks for the reply.

One thing, if i want to change to intel, should i get the cpu and mobo before the gpu? Im not sure if the 1060 will be bottlenecked by my current cpu.

spat55 · Oct 1, 2016

Harry28181 :

The 1060 will be bottlenecked but you will get some gains over the GTX 950 anyway not only that but it will give you time to wait and save for either Kaby Lake or Zen both of which are meant to be arriving late this year. You might even get a GTX 1060 and be happy with the performance although I doubt it.

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