What would make this PC run faster?

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Hello All,

I have this PC that I built a few months ago for the soul purpose of being decent then and upgrade to make it better in future. I now have £150 and I need it to run faster so I can play on medium-high settings on most games. This PC is ok but it even lags on FTL so DayZ is unplayable. My PC specs are on my profile and I was wondering what I should do. Please suggest anything from saving money for now or get multiple things now.

Thanks for any help you give

-Harry

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A graphics card. Honestly, that's it; everything else is solid. It'll be a cheaper, non-top-of-the-line GPU but, with £150, you can get good bang for your buck.

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what type of GPU?

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Highest you could probably go with £150 is a 7850 or a 560/650, AMD and NVIDIA respectively. I'd spring for the 7850 personally.

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definitly a 7850, it handles just about everything. try HIS or MSI

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God...the bad advice in this forum is astounding sometimes, and it's always from members I've never seen before. The CPU is a bottleneck for a more powerful discrete graphics card, and you should really be looking at a lower tiered card to run in dual graphics with an APU anyway.

I really don't know why you would go with an AMD APU system if you were looking to upgrade in the future. The only upgrades I would recommend are these:

1) Get an A10 5800K. It has better processing power and a better GPU which will both help with gaming.

2) Get faster RAM. The GPU integrated into the APU is dependent on your system RAM which means the faster your ram is, the faster your GPU will be. I would recommend a 2400mhz kit.

3) Get a Radeon HD 6670. You can run this card in dual graphics mode with the integrated GPU. This will drastically increase gaming performance, especially if you're running the A10.

4) Get an SSD. This will speed up your entire system.

I would do all of these in the order I posted them.

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Hasn't this guy started like 5 threads about what graphics card to get already? Quit shit posting.

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Don't get an APU at all. Just do the Phenom 965 with 7770 or 7850 combo. 

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get a-10 5800k and faster ram,a smart idea is to wait for AMD richland APUS, such as the a-10 6800k that should be pretty good and buy them.They say its gonna be 40% faster than the a-10 5800k

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Its just I want to see if anything changed with the budget and time