Upgrading and old pc for gaming

sauroniux

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Hi, I want to upgrade my old pc for gaming. It is fine as a workstation right now but I am curiuos if adding a better graphics card like GTX 1050 ti 4gb and one more 4 gb stick of RAM would make it able to run games like Overwatch and Battlefield 1 on low settings.
The current parts are:
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 635
RAM: 4 gb DDR3
GPU: GeForce GTS 450
Motherboard: GA-880GA-UD3H
HDD: 1tb
PSU: 430W
I can't upgrade the cpu because my motherboard has an old socket and replacing that would mean I would have to buy new ram and that adds up to a pricey upgrade which I can't afford at the moment. I could afford buying a gpu and a stick of ram.
Thanks in advance for any help :)
 
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you could push your ram to 16GB such 4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 16 GB of system memory, Dual channel memory architecture
Support for DDR3 1866(OC)/1333/1066 MHz memory modules.

the 1050ti makes sense as a choice, but not so sure it will actually "work" on your Bios system. most newer cards need UEFI to run. I would get one from a nearby computer store or a reputable vendor that will accept a returned on the basis of " incompatibility with my old system" buy and try , works great , not get money back

you could push your ram to 16GB such 4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 16 GB of system memory, Dual channel memory architecture
Support for DDR3 1866(OC)/1333/1066 MHz memory modules.

the 1050ti makes sense as a choice, but not so sure it will actually "work" on your Bios system. most newer cards need UEFI to run. I would get one from a nearby computer store or a reputable vendor that will accept a returned on the basis of " incompatibility with my old system" buy and try , works great , not get money back

 
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