Best option for upgrading an old pc?

[borko3fkovix]

Hello good people of Tom's hardware, i was looking to upgrade my current system to something slightly better, but im on a very tight budget so options are kinda limited to me.
My current system is this: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/c8fXf8

Also worth mentioning, the motherboard isn't capable of overclocking that CPU to a 3.2GHz, which would also give me 1:1 FSB ratio to balance out my system, and a cinebench score of 356, over the 284 from the stock 2.66GHz (which i think is pretty decent)

Now here's some best deals i could find so far:
1) Upgrade the GPU to a "Sapphire 7870 dual X 2gb 256bit" for 85eur
2) Upgrade the GPU to a "Power Color R9 270X 2GB" for 90eur
3) Upgrade the MOBO to a "Asus P5Q" for 30eur (pretty much only to be able to overclock the processor, i was told these ones are pretty good for it, and id more then likely get another 4GB of ddr2)
4) Upgrade the MOBO to a "GA-G41MT-S2PT" + 8GB DDR3 for 50eur (now im not sure about the overclocking potential of this one but its ddr3, ill get to that later)
5) Upgrade the CPU to an i3-3220 for 120eur including the motherboard and 8GB or RAM (now im being a little ambitious about this, and im not sure if i would be able to squeeze it all in my current budget but ill put it in here anyway)

My biggest concern about staying on a DDR2 system is RAM bottleneck, as its only running on 800MHz, and i don't want it to render my upgrades useless.
Any suggestions or thoughts are appreciated, also bear in mind that if losing 5-10fps will mean saving up 20-30eur, I'd be willing to make that trade 😉
Thanks

 

[DYLAN IE]

So what would be your budget?

 

[Ali Tauseef]

Your graphic card is still decent at least if you can upgrade it in a few months. 5th is definitely the best option if you can squeeze it in the budget. Your RAM desperately needs an upgrade and the CPU will also do you some good + with the new motherboard you can fit in some newer CPU's later on so the motherboard is basically futureproof.

 

[borko3fkovix]

I'm typing from the phone now and can't answer directly to comments, but anyway
-My budget is 100ish eur with a "the lower the better" sticker on it.
-I know the i3 option is the best, but i was thinking of that one as in "if everything else fails" option, if anything else has a little less performance improvement with a much lower price tag, i wouldnt have a problem going with that

 

[jossrik]

Check sites like ebay for older hardware. You can get some good deals and while it almost definitely won't last as long as new or come with a new warranty, you can often get higher tiered items for a similar or lower price. I wouldn't necessarily get a motherboard or graphics card from eBay, but memory and CPUs definitely.

 

[borko3fkovix]

I'm from europe so no ebay for me, even if i would get free shipping items from ebay, it would cost a lot for them to cross the border in here so thats not an option.
Also, those prices are from local ebay equivalent websites so it's pretty much as low as it gets x(

 

[DYLAN IE]

There is ebay in europe. Which country do you live in?

 

[borko3fkovix]

There is ebay in europe. Which country do you live in?

There is no ebay where im from, there is ebay-like websites and those are the ones i used for getting my prices, as i said in my post above, im from Serbia btw.

 

[Ali Tauseef]

Okay so if you're having trouble with the budget, then number 4 is definitely the best choice because as I said your RAM desperately needs an upgrade and your GPU will still do for some time.

 

[Donatello11]

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