My dad was alright with computers and got me an old Raidmax Smilodon Dirktooth case in 2015, he passed away since and the computer has been sitting for quite a while. The case is old school looking with a lot of features such as a DVD drive with Laserscribe engraving and lots of extra room and 5 fans. I love the case and just want to upgrade the internals around the video card we last put in.
The last thing we put in was a 750w power supply and the video card, which is
Lastly the computer freezes, this may be due to the processor fan being dusty and the thermal paste being separated but the longer it's turned on the worse it bogs down, this is also likely due to the fact that when I was 15 and had the computer I would try and bootleg games from any website I could find on Google, so I need to understand how to troubleshoot the issue and find the viruses and clear my extra hard drive without clearing out all my extra data. I was hoping these hardware upgrades might help but I need to save this 2tb drive if I can as I am on a budget! (I have tried to find a video tutorial on how to troubleshoot the virus from safe mode and still couldn't fix the problem with the one I followed, need a proper tutorial video on how to clear viruses from windows 7...)
I'm mainly trying to build around this video card as I only really plan on playing games like Rust and Arma 3 or DayZ that are already in my library, I see some options for motherboards with a processor and even 16gb ram sticks included altogether for $45-60 from Chinese websites as featured on $200 computer build videos on YouTube but I can't tell how their gt480 video card (or whatever it was) compares to mine, id really like to narrow down one of these budget choices if possible.
A long list I know, but I plan on slowly learning what I can to fix upkeep my simple computer for simple gaming and building it back over the upcoming months, I am on a budget and dont have the resources to experiment too much with my purchasing, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
The last thing we put in was a 750w power supply and the video card, which is
EVGA GeForce GT 730 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 Low Profile Video Card 02G-P3-3733-KR
We never got a chance to upgrade everything around the computer before it started freezing up and I shelved it for years, I can't tell what the motherboard is but I know it has DDr3 ram slots and only 2 2gb ram sticks, the processor is also outdated. I was hoping to find a cheap option for a processor and motherboard for my current video card as well as what kind of SSD I should use for my operating system, it was running in windows 7 and i plan on upgrading to windows 10, advice would be helpful as to whether i should order a disk copy or not as well as a good source for windows 10 without overpaying (when I search the price variation is insane and half the websites with "product keys" seem very sketchy)Lastly the computer freezes, this may be due to the processor fan being dusty and the thermal paste being separated but the longer it's turned on the worse it bogs down, this is also likely due to the fact that when I was 15 and had the computer I would try and bootleg games from any website I could find on Google, so I need to understand how to troubleshoot the issue and find the viruses and clear my extra hard drive without clearing out all my extra data. I was hoping these hardware upgrades might help but I need to save this 2tb drive if I can as I am on a budget! (I have tried to find a video tutorial on how to troubleshoot the virus from safe mode and still couldn't fix the problem with the one I followed, need a proper tutorial video on how to clear viruses from windows 7...)
I'm mainly trying to build around this video card as I only really plan on playing games like Rust and Arma 3 or DayZ that are already in my library, I see some options for motherboards with a processor and even 16gb ram sticks included altogether for $45-60 from Chinese websites as featured on $200 computer build videos on YouTube but I can't tell how their gt480 video card (or whatever it was) compares to mine, id really like to narrow down one of these budget choices if possible.
A long list I know, but I plan on slowly learning what I can to fix upkeep my simple computer for simple gaming and building it back over the upcoming months, I am on a budget and dont have the resources to experiment too much with my purchasing, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
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