Needing to upgrade my old alienware aurora for gaming but dont know where to start??

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I have an old alienware aurora from around 2009, I am wanting to upgrade to get better performance out of games out at the minute. It currently has:

Windows 10 64 bit
intel core i7 920
14.0 gb of triple channel ddr3 ram
alienware OH869m motherboard
1024mb nvidia gts 240
1 ssd
2 raid hardrives


I have a budget of around 130 gbp and think that I am probably best of upgrading the gpu first and then the cpu in the future. I have been looking at the gtx 1050 ti mini from zotac and am wandering if this is a good choice for my current build and if I will get better performance. At the minute I get frame drops when playing games like cs go and cant even run any new games.

will this be an ideal upgrade?

Thanks.
 
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Do you think the 1050 ti mini will do the job or do you think the cpu would bottleneck it too much?
 
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Do you think the 1050 ti mini will do the job or do you think the cpu would bottleneck it too much?
 
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There's always going to be a bottleneck, even in new enthusiast level pcs. If you were to upgrade your existing graphics card to a gtx 1050ti, you'd see a tremendous difference in gameplay.
The big question is:
What game are you wanting to play? That'll be the deciding factor regarding cpu bottleneck. For example, games like csgo, you'd see a difference however if you try to run Battlefield 1 with any graphics card your cpu would bottleneck no mater what.
 
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I like playing cs go but i want to start playing games like battlefield 1, doom and gta etc, would the bottleneck make these games unplayable or would I still get a decent fps?
 
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For now do you think i will get enough performance out of the 920 to keep up with a new gpu whilst i save up and would you recommend like an i3 6100 or something like an i5?
 
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Definitely not BF1, but you might be able to play doom, gta on medium to low settings (I can't speak for certain). You should try the gpu upgrade and if it doesn't work out, return the graphics card. It would be the most cost effective upgrade path for your existing system. You might get better results running vulkan api using an rx 470 to play doom. What's your power supply?
 
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