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Hello, I am interested in joining the PC master race of gaming, but my rig can barely handle modern games. I am new to computers, so I have no idea what to upgrade first.
My specs are as follows:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965P-S3
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 @2.13ghz OCed to about 3.00ghz.
Graphics Card: ATi Radeon HD 4670
PSU: ThermalTake XP550 np
I just need to know what order I should upgrade.

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Homebuilt system Master

Honestly.. everything... But the video card is probably the weakest link. What kind of budget do you have? I assume that rig doesn't have Windows 7. If you're still running XP, plan on upgrading that too.

We are in fact running Windows 7, very stably surprisingly, 64bit as well. The video card is actually fairly decent in games such as Max Payne 3, Far Cry 2, Crysis Warhead (not OG Crysis), BF3 at low settings and resolution and etc. Our budget is quite low, we would settle for about $500, Canadian.

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Alrite, understand that you cannot overclock with this CPU. If you want an overclockable CPU, get either an i5-2500K or 3570K.

I think I'm going to end up going over budget, but if you find it to be too much at once, I would start with the video card and port it to the new motherboard/CPU when you have more funding.

Ideally, you need to upgrade the power supply as well. That is a very low quality power supply, made by a company known to lie about the power supply's capabilities, in fact they did with that family of units:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Thermaltake-Pure...

I went a little heavy on the video card because of BF3, that game you want as hardcore video card as you can get.

CPU- i5-2400 $195
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681...

Motherboard Asus P8Z77 $135
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681...

Video Card- Sapphire 7850 $250
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681...

RAM- Gskill 8GB (2x4) $45
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682...

Seasonic power supply- $62
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681...
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Many thanks friend, we actually did Overclock our CPU, I noticed a small load time improvement. If we do upgrade our GPU to the recommended one from our current one, how much of a performance increase should we expect?
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tehgeneration said:
Many thanks friend, we actually did Overclock our CPU, I noticed a small load time improvement. If we do upgrade our GPU to the recommended one from our current one, how much of a performance increase should we expect?

You're welcome, yes like zooted said, the Core2Duo will bottleneck the 7850.

Yes the core2duo can be overclocked, I meant the 2400 CPU i recommended, you cannot overclock that one.
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It will be bottle necked, but you should still be able to run games at playable rates(aside from heavily cpu bound games.) You could upgrade the card for now to hold you over until you can get a new cpu/mobo/ram.
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Its really hard to answer how much exactly it will be bottlenecked without actually benching it, but it will depend in part what type of games you play and at what settings. IT probably will bottleneck quite a bit though considering its a nearly 5 year old CPU.
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