Old gaming pc upgrade help.

[Thatsmycat]

Good day all, I have a gaming pc from 2012 and I'm looking at spending up to £200 to get it to an OK 1080p standard for 2019.

The specs:

I5-2500k 3.30ghz
Gtx560ti 1gb
Gigabyte: GA-Z68AP-D3
RAM: corsair XMS3 8gb ( 2 stick of 4gb)
500gb hdd
Windows 10
And the psu is 650w

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Good day all, I have a gaming pc from 2012 and I'm looking at spending up to £200 to get it to an OK 1080p standard for 2019.

The specs:

I5-2500k 3.30ghz
Gtx560ti 1gb
Gigabyte: GA-Z68AP-D3
RAM: corsair XMS3 8gb ( 2 stick of 4gb)
500gb hdd
Windows 10
And the psu is 650w

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Red Dragon 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £119.99

Total: £129.89 (includes shipping: £9.90)
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i7 K CPU second hand and overclock !

or at least overclock your current one to 4.0-.2ghz with aftermarket cooler

scout 8gb of ddr3 ram second hand as well if keeping i5

 

[4K8KW10]

Good day all, I have a gaming pc from 2012 and I'm looking at spending up to £200 to get it to an OK 1080p standard for 2019.

The specs:

I5-2500k 3.30ghz
Gtx560ti 1gb
Gigabyte: GA-Z68AP-D3
RAM: corsair XMS3 8gb ( 2 stick of 4gb)
500gb hdd
Windows 10
And the psu is 650w

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hallo,

You need more than 8GB of RAM, in the first place, and take a graphics card with 8GB VRAM, too:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 580 Red Dragon V2 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £169.99
• 1 x Team Group Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD316G1600HC11DC01= £64.99

Total: £244.88 (includes shipping: £9.90)
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[ExoMale]

Don’t listen to the above, you don’t need more than 8gb ram to run at 1080p and you don’t need a gpu with 8gbvram unless you intent to use it for heavy gaming with all the bells & whistles, so all you need is a decent graphics card, anything from a Maxwell gpu will do as far as nvidia goes, you could get a 980 if you happy with 2nd hand.