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Skippy2416

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I bought a computer from Cyberpower for my first computer, and being a sixteen year old kid excited about a new computer I didn't research into the parts as I should have and the pricing of it if I built it on my own. Now 2 years later I now regret some of the things I put on it, and some of the components are not what they could be. I wasn't informed of what manufacture I was getting for each piece, and being 16 I didn't check what I got 2 months after the return and money back deadline. So now I am asking what upgrades I should do first to hardware to get the best performance out of what I have at a reasonable price. The specs of my computer are.

Cpu: FX-8350
Gpu: Powercolor R9 380 4 gig
Motherboard: GIGABYTE 970-Gaming SLI AMD 970 ATX


 
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Zerk2012

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First they use very bad power supplies.
Their no upgrade for your processor. So new board, processor, and memory. The FX was rather bad 5 years ago when released.
Or new power supply and video card, and overclock the processor some.
I would sell it as a working PC and just build a new one.
 
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I you decide to start over with a new build, I suggest the following parts.
GPU: Rx 480 4gb or GTX 1060 6gb
CPU: Intel i5 7600k
Motherboard: Z270
8 or 12 gb DDR4 RAM

This build isn't too expensive and is great especially for 1080p gaming.

If you have the money you could always go for a build like this:
GPU: GTX 1080
CPU: Ryzen 7 1700 or Intel i7 7700k
Motherboard: For the Intel a Z270
And for the Ryzen 7 a B350 or X....
RAM: 16-32gb DDR4 Ram
 
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coozie7

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Making mistakes is what being young is all about, (although for me the memories of 'young' are a little distant) so don't beat yourself up over it, (it's more fun if you let us do it. ;) )

As Zerk says, there's no viable upgrade path from that motherboard/CPU/RAM combination, your only way forward would be a new core (MB/CPU/RAM) which is likely to be expensive.

What are you using the system for?
If mainly for gaming, what games and at what monitor resolution? Graphically intense games will respond to a faster GPU but CPU intensive games obviously won't.
 
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