Hi, I'm Philippe (Phil) from Belgium. I will put my specs, details, what games I play and my problems with the system down below.
I have found myself in some difficult financial situation. I would like to buy myself some time because I can't pay for upgrades at this moment.
I could pay for some components at the end of this year but I don't know what the budget will be as I have other important things to pay for and I want to pay that first.
So my question is, is there something in need of upgrading before it dies? Or can I buy myself some time with simple things that I could do? If so, how much time? I'm not so experienced in pc stuff.
The reason why I also ask this is because of the prices of the graphics cards. Ultimately, if I decide to upgrade my CPU, I shall take the ones with integrated graphics and wait out the expensive storm of GPU's. I find this the smartest way.
Now I do have a few options here (I need to be smart and carefull about this):
Aerocool GT-A white (8 years old) with 1 front fan, 2 topfans and 1 backfan
PSU: non modulair Corsair CX 750w (I think this one is bronze? ) (8 years)
Mobo: MSI Z170 gaming a (5 years old)
CPU: Intel core I7 6700 non k with stock cooler (5 years old)
Ram: Hyperx 16gb DDR4 (5 years old)
GPU: amd XFX RX590 Fatboy 8gb (almost 3 years old) (downvolted)
SSD: Kingston 240gb (5 years old)
HDD: WD 1,5 tb (10+ years old)
Display LG 24 inch 1080p 144hz 1ms (2 years old)
Keyboard: Razer Ultimate (8 years old)
Mouse Logitech g pro hero (1 year old)
Games I play
League of legends, Warframe
Games I sometimes play
Horizon Zero Dawn, Forza Horizon 4, Shadow of the tomb raider, No man's sky
Problems I have encountered
-Everytime I boot up for the first time, my graphics card is having issues. It boots up into standard settings (without the downvolt) and my screen would freeze. I then have to reboot, and then it boots up into the downvolted settings and everything runs smoothly and normal. So I reboot directly if I boot my pc up for the first time that day. then it doesn't have any issues. Currently this is the only way because I've tried everything (with DDU in save mode) except for a clean install.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE HELP!
Kind regards, Philippe
https://ibb.co/986FPNy (my pc)
https://ibb.co/zGr6RCy (while playing horizon zero dawn)
https://ibb.co/Qv2Mw1T (normal settings of gpu)
https://ibb.co/Gkkz1Z7 (downvolted settings of gpu)
I have found myself in some difficult financial situation. I would like to buy myself some time because I can't pay for upgrades at this moment.
I could pay for some components at the end of this year but I don't know what the budget will be as I have other important things to pay for and I want to pay that first.
So my question is, is there something in need of upgrading before it dies? Or can I buy myself some time with simple things that I could do? If so, how much time? I'm not so experienced in pc stuff.
The reason why I also ask this is because of the prices of the graphics cards. Ultimately, if I decide to upgrade my CPU, I shall take the ones with integrated graphics and wait out the expensive storm of GPU's. I find this the smartest way.
Now I do have a few options here (I need to be smart and carefull about this):
- I buy myself some time hoping that nothing brakes. I pay the important stuff first and then see how much money there is left but at the cost of running out of money to change anything.
- I could replace a few things like my case, psu and HDD (only if it helps buying me some time) (this is the least costly option but I do need to have someone to help me a couple of times (replacing the mobo as well later on) because the PSU I have now is a non modulair and the 24 pin isn't going anywhere. I don't get any movement in it and my mobo is already fragile)
- I wait till I have enough money to do a full upgrade except for the graphics card, in the hope that nothing brakes. This is the most costly option but in doing so, I only need to have someone to help me 1 time.
- I do nothing and just wait till 1 of my components die and then do a fully upgrade but at the risk of not having enough money at that specific time.
- I buy item per item, like a collector, and do a full upgrade when I have everything. But this is at the cost of alot of time and I will need help from someone several times because components might die and I don't know which it will be.
Aerocool GT-A white (8 years old) with 1 front fan, 2 topfans and 1 backfan
PSU: non modulair Corsair CX 750w (I think this one is bronze? ) (8 years)
Mobo: MSI Z170 gaming a (5 years old)
CPU: Intel core I7 6700 non k with stock cooler (5 years old)
Ram: Hyperx 16gb DDR4 (5 years old)
GPU: amd XFX RX590 Fatboy 8gb (almost 3 years old) (downvolted)
SSD: Kingston 240gb (5 years old)
HDD: WD 1,5 tb (10+ years old)
Display LG 24 inch 1080p 144hz 1ms (2 years old)
Keyboard: Razer Ultimate (8 years old)
Mouse Logitech g pro hero (1 year old)
Games I play
League of legends, Warframe
Games I sometimes play
Horizon Zero Dawn, Forza Horizon 4, Shadow of the tomb raider, No man's sky
Problems I have encountered
-Everytime I boot up for the first time, my graphics card is having issues. It boots up into standard settings (without the downvolt) and my screen would freeze. I then have to reboot, and then it boots up into the downvolted settings and everything runs smoothly and normal. So I reboot directly if I boot my pc up for the first time that day. then it doesn't have any issues. Currently this is the only way because I've tried everything (with DDU in save mode) except for a clean install.
- Rarely, my screen goes black my graphics card starts ramping up it's fans and goes non stop. I then either pull the displayport out of my gpu or if he still has it hard shut down the computer (not the plug) and I just have to completely pull out the graphics card manually. And then everything works fine.
- Rarely I got the black screen that says "Reboot and select the proper boot drive, insert boot media" eventhough when everything is attached and my win10 is installed. I then need to manually replug my SSD boot drive in order to work.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE HELP!
Kind regards, Philippe
https://ibb.co/986FPNy (my pc)
https://ibb.co/zGr6RCy (while playing horizon zero dawn)
https://ibb.co/Qv2Mw1T (normal settings of gpu)
https://ibb.co/Gkkz1Z7 (downvolted settings of gpu)
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