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Willpower21

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I've been having issues for awhile with my PC that I built a couple years ago struggling to handle games at even low settings. I want to upgrade whatever parts I need to that might solve these problems so that it can handle games pretty easily at medium settings, such as LoL or Rocket League. If I simply need to start fresh, that would also be very helpful to know! Here's what I'm working with:

Motherboard-GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-USB3
Processor- AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor 3.10 GHz
Video Card- GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Power Supply- CX 430 Corsair
Hard Drive- wdc wd3200aajs-00b4a0 ata device
RAM: 6.00 GB 64-bit Operating system, Windows 7

I would appreciate any recommendations, thanks!
 
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That motherboard is not good. It would take an FX-4300, but the 6300 and 8300 would throttle on it because of its weak power phases and vrm setup

This would be plenty for LoL and rocket league:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($59.48 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($69.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team Elite Plus 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus Radeon RX 460 2GB Dual OC Video Card ($89.99 @ SuperBiiz)...
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Willpower21

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USA, and I don't want to spend more than 300$ if I was upgrading, maybe 500$ if I had to start from scratch. I'm assuming that's not enough to build a solid PC, but I don't know much about it, wanting to learn though! Is the motherboard not relevant/usable as well?
 
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That motherboard is not good. It would take an FX-4300, but the 6300 and 8300 would throttle on it because of its weak power phases and vrm setup

This would be plenty for LoL and rocket league:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($59.48 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($69.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team Elite Plus 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus Radeon RX 460 2GB Dual OC Video Card ($89.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case ($36.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($47.78 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($89.98 @ NCIX US)
Total: $497.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-04-25 03:09 EDT-0400

And it has a strong and simple upgrade path for the future
 
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Hey Luco, it's a couple months later but I'm ready to actually buy all of the parts now, is this recommendation still optimal or do you have any recent additions that you might think would work better/be a better price? Also, do you think it would handle Pubg easily as well? Just checking before I go through with it, thanks!!
 
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I would mainly just buy the newer version of the rx 460 (the rx 560): https://pcpartpicker.com/product/h8Nypg/gigabyte-radeon-rx-560-2gb-gaming-oc-video-card-gv-rx560gaming-oc-2gd and also I would wait for the new ryzen 3 that's coming next week for around the same price as the g4560
 
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Also I wouldn't recommend this pc for Pubg but for other games it's great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYisjTFVXB0
 
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