Combining a EVGA Geforce gt 640 and an AMD Ryzen 3 2200G?

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I'm trying to help out a friend of mine that wants a gaming pc. Unfortunately for him, he has a very small budget. His brother recently gave him his old pc which can no longer run windows 10 "because it only has 2gb of RAM". He has asked me to see if I could use some of the parts of that pc to help build a new one. One of those parts is a EVGA Geforce gt 640. Since graphics cards are extremely high at the moment I'm doing my best to find ways to use this 640. I know that it is quite dated compared to the latest gear but I was wondering if I could improve its performance by combining it with AMD Ryzen 3 2200G APU. Would this work and would that help performance whatsoever?



Part list as of now (I believe):

APU: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
Motherboard: Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4
Memory: Crucial - 8GB DDR4-2400
Storage(I believe): Hitachi - P7K500 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM (From old build)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GT 640 1GB (From old build)
PSU: Thermaltake - 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX



Thank you.
 
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Firstly, if you have a dedicated graphics solution, an APU won't do you much good in the first place, and you'd probably be better off using the regular Ryzen 3 1200, or, if you are on a tight budget, a Pentium G4560 might be a better option.
As for the GPU itself, saying that it's bad is putting it lightly. Though, with the money you save buying a G4560 rather than the R3 1200, a GTX 750ti would be a good option to consider. It has fantastic price-to-performance, beating even the GT 1030, a more expensive card.
This might also be a better deal for your memory: https://bit.ly/2ruoe89 It's a bit slower, but with a G4560 rather than the 2200g or R3 1200, it won't make much of a difference in terms of real-world performance.
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Firstly, if you have a dedicated graphics solution, an APU won't do you much good in the first place, and you'd probably be better off using the regular Ryzen 3 1200, or, if you are on a tight budget, a Pentium G4560 might be a better option.
As for the GPU itself, saying that it's bad is putting it lightly. Though, with the money you save buying a G4560 rather than the R3 1200, a GTX 750ti would be a good option to consider. It has fantastic price-to-performance, beating even the GT 1030, a more expensive card.
This might also be a better deal for your memory: https://bit.ly/2ruoe89 It's a bit slower, but with a G4560 rather than the 2200g or R3 1200, it won't make much of a difference in terms of real-world performance.
In regards to your motherboard, I would highly recommend using a Micro-ATX board to save money. This is the cheapest one compatible with the G4560 on PCPartPicker: https://bit.ly/2lLiw0j
If you're using Wi-Fi, this is also a great deal for an adapter: https://bit.ly/2Ngqlrj
 
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To my knowledge, dual graphics solutions (Discrete GPU + APU) was not incorporated into the Ryzen APUs, so no. You cannot add a second card to improve performance. Even if you could, you cannot use an NVidia Geforce card paired with an AMD APU.

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What kind of budget is there to work with? Also, what are the complete specs of the old system, in case any other components could be reused?

One thing I noticed is that you have a higher-end X470 motherboard listed, which is probably overkill for lower-end parts like these. For Ryzen, something like a B350 motherboard should work just as well (assuming you get one that's been updated to work with the newer processors).

Also, if you want to get the most out of the integrated Vega graphics in the 2200G, you'll probably want to look at a 2x4GB set of faster RAM, ideally somewhere around the DDR4 2933-3200 range, which shouldn't cost too much more. Having a dual-channel kit of faster RAM can help the performance of integrated graphics quite a bit.
 
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