Hello everyone!
I’m the noobiest of the noobs, buuuuttt I’m hoping you guys can help me out.
I have a pc that I’m trying to upgrade to a decent (yet affordable rig)
I have a hard drive
And a power supply: Rosewill Gaming Power Supply, Arc Series 550 Watt (550W) 80 PLUS Bronze Certified PSU with Silent 120mm Fan and Auto Fan Speed Control, 3 Year Warranty - ARC550
And a graphics card: GIGABYTE GT 420 2GB 128-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x 16 ATX Video Graphics Cards GV-N420-2GI REV3
I will use windows 7 64
I need a processor, a motherboard and ram upgrade. We tried upgrading ram before, but I guess the motherboard has a crack? I’ve got someone to work on it, I just need cheap recommendations.
Like $300 (if that’s even possible)
I’m in the usa so usd
I’d prefer to order online
I’ll mostly use it for gaming and streaming, a little editing.
No overclocking?
No water cooling
I have my os
Fps and resloution im looking for is decent.
Mostly want my pc for older games, ones I can’t get on my console or silly ones
I am the wrong guy to give advice regarding gaming. A couple of things we need to know though:
How much ram did you currently have and was it enough?
What CPU are you upgrading from? (What @CPUBG said)
Can you give us a couple of examples for games you play (older can mean a lot) and are there modern titles you plan on playing?
What monitor do you have (resolution and refresh rate) my guess is 1080p ?
What is the reason you want to upgrade the motherboard and CPU? You mentioned a crack.
If I am not completely mistaken you could use a GPU update too and in that case I would go with a Ryzen 2400G or 2200G. Together with motherboard and 16GB of RAM that should fit into your budget nicely.
@angels_calamity Before proceeding, please look into the compatibility issues between Ryzen based or even recent Intel based platforms and Windows 7. Support on these newer platforms is not official and you may have to jump through hoops to get it to work. I would suggest a slightly older Intel platform like something z170 or prior with integrated graphics. You may be able to find such a system on ebay or craigslist.
AMD has official drivers for Win7. The trick is to get to the point where the drivers are useful (internal DVD drive is recommended as USB won´t work).
Edit: The Zen-based APUs (Ryzen 2200G and 2400G, Athlon 200GE) do NOT work with WIn7
Those would be some of the hoops I’m talking about. Not to mention PS/2 Keyboard during the install and a nasty Windows update notification that says that your newer processor platform is not supported. Eitherway, Microsoft does not officially support this newer hardware on their Windows 7 OS and judging by the OPs relative newness to building computers, I figured I’d save him/her some hassle and recommend a platform that would be easier to maintain… At least for the time-being.
Off-topic, but thanks for pointing that out, I did not know it even existed. I tried this same thing a while back and was unaware of this work-around. Cheers
I’m willing to pay more, I kinda thew a ballpark figure. To be completely honest I don’t understand most of your terms, I’m trying to not seem like a complete idiot. So I’m hoping my pc nerd can translate.