Hello everyone!
I used to have my old good pc that in the old days was great! It's time unfortunately to make some change since I am not able anymore to keep up with new graphics and new technologies.
What I would like to do is keeping as much as I can of my current setup. You would ask: what do you want to achieve then? The answer is: I would like to have a nice machine that doesn't need to do magics but at least it must have a couple of features that are important for my hobbies.
Into the details... I am a gamer and I make computer animations myself. At the moment GPUs cost waaaaay too much due to cryptocurrencies mining. So I have to decide whether to buy a half way good GPU, waiting the the costs go lower or finding another solution, we'll arrive to this soon. Let me at first tell you my current configuration:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2Ghz 4x512KB Black Edition AM2+/AM3 Dened 125W BOX
GPU: ATI HD6870 Sapphire 1GB GDDR5 2xDVI/2xDP/HDMI
Power Supply: Corsair CMPSU-650TXEU 650W
Mother board: ASRock AM3 870 Extreme3 AM3 ATX
Storage: Western Digital 500GB WD5001AALS 7200rpm 32MB Caviar Black
RAM: DDR3 1333Mhz PC10666 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws 4GBRM CL8 (2x2GB)
Case: Thermaltake V4 Black Edition
About the budget, as I said I would like to keep as many pieces as possible. I don't have a fixed budget but to give you an idea, if I have to spend 200 euro it would be nice. If I have to spend 500 euro I would try to find a way to do it somehow. If I have to spend 800 euro then I cannot do it.
As said above, graphics is the most important part but at the moment it's a hard topic due to the prices. So the alternatives are either overclocking my current GPU, but it's so old that I don't think I will achieve anything out of it. An alternative is buying some mid range graphic card (have no clue which one.. need definitely your help here) that allows me to work with 3D graphics animation programs and play some modern videogames (Pubg would be an example). Third and last alternative would be borrowing a couple of GTX 570s from a friend and make them work in SLI while waiting that the prices to go a bit down.
So depending on these 3 situations I have no clue if the rest of my computer (motherboard, power supply and CPU) is enough and especially compatible.
Updating RAM to something more decent I think it's a must in any case
Would you kindly help me finding a setup for my next new computer? I thank in advance for your help!
I used to have my old good pc that in the old days was great! It's time unfortunately to make some change since I am not able anymore to keep up with new graphics and new technologies.
What I would like to do is keeping as much as I can of my current setup. You would ask: what do you want to achieve then? The answer is: I would like to have a nice machine that doesn't need to do magics but at least it must have a couple of features that are important for my hobbies.
Into the details... I am a gamer and I make computer animations myself. At the moment GPUs cost waaaaay too much due to cryptocurrencies mining. So I have to decide whether to buy a half way good GPU, waiting the the costs go lower or finding another solution, we'll arrive to this soon. Let me at first tell you my current configuration:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2Ghz 4x512KB Black Edition AM2+/AM3 Dened 125W BOX
GPU: ATI HD6870 Sapphire 1GB GDDR5 2xDVI/2xDP/HDMI
Power Supply: Corsair CMPSU-650TXEU 650W
Mother board: ASRock AM3 870 Extreme3 AM3 ATX
Storage: Western Digital 500GB WD5001AALS 7200rpm 32MB Caviar Black
RAM: DDR3 1333Mhz PC10666 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws 4GBRM CL8 (2x2GB)
Case: Thermaltake V4 Black Edition
About the budget, as I said I would like to keep as many pieces as possible. I don't have a fixed budget but to give you an idea, if I have to spend 200 euro it would be nice. If I have to spend 500 euro I would try to find a way to do it somehow. If I have to spend 800 euro then I cannot do it.
As said above, graphics is the most important part but at the moment it's a hard topic due to the prices. So the alternatives are either overclocking my current GPU, but it's so old that I don't think I will achieve anything out of it. An alternative is buying some mid range graphic card (have no clue which one.. need definitely your help here) that allows me to work with 3D graphics animation programs and play some modern videogames (Pubg would be an example). Third and last alternative would be borrowing a couple of GTX 570s from a friend and make them work in SLI while waiting that the prices to go a bit down.
So depending on these 3 situations I have no clue if the rest of my computer (motherboard, power supply and CPU) is enough and especially compatible.
Updating RAM to something more decent I think it's a must in any case
Would you kindly help me finding a setup for my next new computer? I thank in advance for your help!