Best & Cheapest Way to upgrade my PC

SuB-Zero_Ire

Looking to upgrade my PC. Something simple and easy to do. PC is mainly for gaming. Fifa, Battlefield series (will be picking up Battlefield V), PUBG, etc.

Don't really have a budget but don't want to spend too much. Put an initial budget of €200 but there if it's justified would increase the budget.

Was thinking of just doubling the ram and adding a second 250gb SSD.

See the below list of components I currently have.

Ram - 8GB-Kit Corsair Vengeance Low Profile schwarz PC3-12800U

SSD - Crucial M4 128GB SSD 

Harddrive - Seagate Barracuda 7200 1000GB, SATA 6Gb/s

CPU - Intel Core i5-3570K Box, LGA1155

Graphics card - MSI R7850 TwinFrozr 2GD5/OC, 2048MB DDR5, PCI-Express

Motherboard - MSI Z77 Mpower, Intel Z77, ATX, DDR3

PSU - Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 550W

Tower - Thermaltake Chaser MK-I, ohne Netzteil

Thanks for any advice you can give.

K.O.Kiki

GPU & RAM imho

Get an RX 570 8Gb for 190 euro
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B071R7BTJL/?tag=pcp0f-21

And another 8Gb RAM stick for 41 euro
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00H6Z6BMS/?tag=pcp0f-21

For Battlefield specifically, an i7-3770 / 3770K would help but you can get by without.

SuB-Zero_Ire

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

GPU & RAM imho

Get an RX 570 8Gb for 190 euro
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B071R7BTJL/?tag=pcp0f-21

And another 8Gb RAM stick for 41 euro
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00H6Z6BMS/?tag=pcp0f-21

For Battlefield specifically, an i7-3770 / 3770K would help but you can get by without.

Thanks Kiki. Will definitely upgrade my ram, will look into more on the graphics card.

TerrorFirmer

Get a good overclock on that i5 as well, crucial for Battlefield. It doesn't run very well on those older i5's but a heavy overclock will help limit the frame drops and spikes.

If it's mainly for gaming I would forget about RAM for now and just get a 2nd hand i7-3770 for €100 and an RX570 for €180 or whatever it is, it's well worth it. 8GB ram is still fine for gaming as it is, as long as it's 2x4GB sticks and not a single stick you'll be grand for now.

Obviously PUBG and Fifa will run fine on the 3570K though.

K.O.Kiki

RX 570 would be the cheapest "good" graphics card, and should help with performance in general & 1% lows in particular.
Plus it has oodles more VRAM which would be a boon in large maps like Battlefield's.

Gerrymandering reborn

just a suggestion https://www.awd-it.co.uk/powercolor-radeon-rx-580-red-dragon-v2-8gb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card.html?wgu=13527_109047_15440255974286_617668cccc&wgexpiry=1551801597&source=webgains&siteid=109047

Inquitus

This offer from the bargain thread is a goodun, 190 yoyos for an RX580, EDIT: I see the fella above thought the same, I'd defo pull the trigger on that, you'll see mahoosive performance boost!

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/powercolor-radeon-rx-580-red-dragon-v2-8192mb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-18l-pc.html