GPU for old system upgrade on a tight budget

silverpuma · Dec 28, 2017

My Old build components

1 x Antec TriCool Fan - 120mm Despatched 1...... £5.77
My OLD PC build

1 x 320GB Western Digital Caviar Blue 3.5" Hard Disk Drive Despatched ...1 £36.84

1 x 500W Silverpower By Seasonic SP-SS500 Power Supply Despatched 1... £45.97

1 x Xigmatek Asgard ATX Mid Tower Case Despatched 1... £30.64

1 x Logitech U96 Optical Wheel Mouse Despatched 1... £5.01

1 x Logitech S120 Speaker System Despatched 1... £8.28

1 x Sony AD-7240S-0B 24x DVDRW Despatched 1... £16.13

2 x XFX Radeon HD 4350 Low Profile 1GB Despatched 2..... £31.67 = £63.33

2 x Corsair ValueSelect 2GB (4 in Total) DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel Despatched 1.... £93.85

1 x AMD Athlon II X4 620 Quad Core CPU Despatched 1.... £80.95

1 x Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H AM3 Motherboard Despatched ......1 £72.54

I built the above PC years ago and have now replaced it. But I want to do a budget upgrade of this old PC so I can use it for playing Euro Trucks 2 and American Trucking Simulator and some web browsing. I hope to use it with a plasma 42" TV I have replaced with a new TV. As you can see above I have 2 graphics cards that I intend to sell on ebay and buy 1 older graphics card to replace these with a hdmi output.

I'm open to ideas but I'm thinking I need some ram to bump up the 4GB I have now. My Motherboard has 4 slots so I have 2 slots unused. Should I buy 2 x 2GB sticks or could I buy 1 4GB stick but then I would be using 3 slots. As you can see from this question I don't know much about builds......!!! What used graphics card should I go for....I was thinking of a MSI GeForce GT 710 Passive Silent 2 GB Graphics Card would this be a good choice? Any advice would be great but please remember this is a real budget job

And I need your patience with my lack of techy know -how....

penn919 · Dec 28, 2017

GTX 750 ti or an RX 460. Bumping up the ram to 8 should be fine, but I hear ram prices have spiked quite a bit lately. Might want to wait.

silverpuma · Dec 28, 2017

penn919 :

Thanks for this.....so you think the gt 710 would not be a good choice?

penn919 · Dec 28, 2017

silverpuma :

The GT 710 is not a card for any kind of gaming. You would only get that card if you needed additional outputs or if your motherboard and cpu doesn't have any integrated graphics.

dontlistentome · Dec 28, 2017

My concern is motherboard compatibility with such an older motherboard. I'd look at used cards. On the AMD side, HD 7870 and on the Nvidia side GTX 660. It looks like you have a power supply with two 6 pin pci-ex connectors so you have some flexibility on using older cards, which typically require more power than newer cards. Make sure whatever you get is a 2gb DDR5 card.

Things like Nvidia GT cards are not a good choice, unless it's the GT 1030. The older GT models just aren't good gaming cards.

edit: Get an SSD if possible, it will bring that system to a new life. Even a cheap 120gb Sandisk or similar is worth it. Assuming you have a 64 bit OS, upgrade to 8gb if possible. Adding two matched sticks is preferable but add the 4gb stick if that's all you can afford. It's better to have 8gb single channel rather than 4 dual channel.

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