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Upgrade old components or build/buy new

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  • 24-05-2022 2:28pm
    #1
    dannyo666
    Registered Users Posts: 279 ✭✭


    Operating System

    Windows 10 Home 64-bit

    CPU

    AMD A8-7650K 14 °C

    Kaveri 28nm Technology

    RAM

    8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)

    Motherboard

    MSI A68HM GRENADE (MS-7891) (P0) 39 °C

    Graphics

    S240HL (1920x1080@59Hz)

    1024MB ATI AMD Radeon R7 Graphics (MSI) 8 °C

    Storage

    931GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 SATA Disk Device (SATA ) 28 °C

    Optical Drives

    HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSD0 SATA CdRom Device

    Audio

    Realtek High Definition Audio


    Was thinking of just putting 1TB SSD and using that to speed things up


    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B078211KBB/ref%3Dox_sc_act_title_3?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&th=1

    Im not really a gamer(maybe football manager on 2d) but would like a little more ram and graphics card but i believe my mother board is rubbish?Im not sure which is why i ask all you fine folks....im thinking the SDD alone would get the pc back motoring a lot lot quicker



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    #2
    zom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭zom


    Get any ssc and instal OS, you will be surprised with its speed.

    Doesnt have to be big like 1TB if you keep old disk as storage and use ssd only for system / current files. 240GB are in pretty good prices. From my experience ssd disk is not the best place to keep a lots of data especially if it is not backuped personal unrecoverable data, as ssd can die quickly without any warning and then it is a pain to recover anything.

    As for the rest check what is struggling / bottlenecking you mostly - I would say it is a disk so after you replace it you will get next slowest element ;)



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    dannyo666
    Registered Users Posts: 279 ✭✭dannyo666


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119107453#Comment_119107453

    Thanks-Much appreciate the information-Thank you.I have 8bg ram and am thinking of another 8 to install also if that makes sense



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    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users Posts: 18,706 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    No point IMHO in buying an SSD below 512Gb size. They're 45eur while a reputable 256Gb is 35eur.

    Adding another 8Gb stick of DDR3-1600 will help a bit, as it will then run in dual-channel mode (might have to enable that in BIOS, not sure).

    Since the CPU is 8 years old, it is going to bottleneck any modern hardware. Though if you wanted improved graphical performance, I don't see the harm in putting in an old budget card, e.g. this GTX 650 Ti Boost 2Gb (50eur) or R9 270 (55 eur). Would require a decent PSU though - 350W for 650 Ti, 400W for 270.



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