Old PC upgrade

Forum discussion tagged with Old PC upgrade.
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    Question What is the best GRAPHIC CARD option for very OLD motherboard GA-H55M-USB3 (rev. 1.0) ?

    Hi guys 👨‍🔧🖥, I would like to upgrade a very old computer 👴 what I found at home for playing old games for my 7 years nephew 🧒. I'm wondering🧐, what could be the best GPU option for this 🌟 : Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H55M-USB3 CPU: Intel® Core™ i3-530 Processor RAM: 3835MB (DDR3 - 1333 DDR3...
  2. idiaz40

    [SOLVED] Cloning HDD from old pc to SSD for new rig

    Okay.. so i have an old 2008 pc with a 240gb HDD with OEM windows 10 pro version (originally it was windows 7 but i upgradred to windows 10 for free when Microsoft was giving free upgrades) and i was wondering if i could clone the old pc HDD to an M.2 Nvme for another system i am personally...
  3. TheMasterOfNone

    Question Should I upgrade an old Compaq PC for general use?

    Hi, I have an old Compaq Presario SR5000 (SR5790AN) series PC lying around, and I want to see if I can spend a hundred or two to make it useable again. It doesn't need to run like an absolute beast, just enough to satisfy my dad, an average PC user, for web browsing, email, media consumption...
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    [SOLVED] 2009 mediocre PC graphics card upgrade

    I have this PC: https://www.cnet.com/products/asus-essentio-cg5270-bp003/specs/ I'm thinking of getting GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6G. Would it be an overkill? I'm a newbie on this, so I would be grateful for any help. The most intensive game I would play is probably Skyrim. Thank you!
  5. wejsen

    [SOLVED] Should i buy new or upgrade old PC?

    I just have a question about, if i should buy a new pc or try to upgrade my old one? My PC i 10 years old and i have only upgraded the HDD harddisk to a SSD (what at that time made it running like a new). I only play casually games like CS and league of legends, which the PC can handled on a OK...
  6. xtcx

    [SOLVED] Suggestion on GPU for my 8 year old PC

    Hi friends, My PC is very old, about 8 years. I cannot afford to upgrade my Mobo/SDD/CPU/RAM further. Please suggest an Nvidia GPU which will not be bottlenecked or become useless because by my slow CPU. For eg, buying RTX 2060 vs GTX 1660 Please note, my requirement for games are playable...
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    16 gb installed ( 7.96 GB usable)

    I know this topic had come up quite a few times but I tried some things and I still haven't found a solution and i'm slightly getting desperate at this point. So as you can read in the title, in properties it shows " 16 gb installed ( 7.96 GB usable) " Worth adding might be that in the past i...