What to upgrade first?

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
W

westeind

Prominent
Jul 16, 2017
67
0
640
Hi

What do you guys think i should upgrade first?

PC specs:

CPU: FX 8350 4Ghz
GPU: RX 460 4GB OC
MB: ASUS m5a78l-m/plus-USB3
RAM: HyperX fury 1866Mhz 4gb 2x
PSU: Seasonic S12II-430
CASE: Sharkoon VS4-S
HD: 2 pretty slow hdd`s in total 580gb
COOLING: rear: Be quiet pure wings 2
front: sharkoon 120mm
Cpu cooler: Stock AMD cooler
 
Solution
jankerson


That will depend on what CPU/MB you are planning on going with.

But normally a good quality 550W PSU like a Corsair TX550W or a Seasonic Focus 550W would be my 1st recommendations.

Sort by date Sort by votes
jankerson

jankerson

Judicious
BANNED
Sep 10, 2006
7,885
140
35,640
No matter what you choose to do the PSU would be the 1st primary thing you need to buy. It is a good PSU, but with only 360W on the 12V that will need to be replaced before upgrading anything else.

I would do the MB, CPU, Ram and PSU all at once as you would have too anyway.

And then the Graphics card and add a 240 or 250 GB SSD.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Zerk2012

Zerk2012

Titan
Ambassador
Oct 6, 2014
21,397
2,038
104,240
If your gaming then get a video card. That power supply with what you already have should run a GTX 1060 3GB/6GB card and would be over 100% better than the card you already have adding just 45 more watts to your TDP.
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1060-3GB-vs-AMD-RX-460/3646vs3641
Other than that you would need a new PC.
You could upgrade the power supply along with the card if in budget.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
W

westeind

Prominent
Jul 16, 2017
67
0
640


would upgrading to a gtx 1060 as Zerk2012 said be possible with my psu?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
jankerson

jankerson

Judicious
BANNED
Sep 10, 2006
7,885
140
35,640


With only 360W on the 12V I wouldn't, but it may work Ok as a temporary solution.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
W

westeind

Prominent
Jul 16, 2017
67
0
640


okay so what psu would you recomend?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
jankerson

jankerson

Judicious
BANNED
Sep 10, 2006
7,885
140
35,640


That will depend on what CPU/MB you are planning on going with.

But normally a good quality 550W PSU like a Corsair TX550W or a Seasonic Focus 550W would be my 1st recommendations.

 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
A

asbrozovsky

Prominent
Dec 3, 2017
9
0
520
Upgrading storage would be a good and cheap upgrade. Good 7200rpm hard drives are really cheap.

Other than that, personally, I would upgrade the CPU, mobo, and ram first, get something a little more updated, and then the GPU and PSU. Not telling you what to do or anything, but I would probably upgrade to something like a Ryzen 3 which would need a different mobo and ram, then to an rx580 and a more capable psu.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom