I need help [ Is it compatible? ]

[raphaeljoseph95]

I recently bought a PC, I was planning on building a budget PC per-say. this is my system:

UserBenchmarks: Game 12%, Desk 48%, Work 32% CPU: Intel Core i7-2600 - 69.3% GPU: Intel HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz) - 1.5% HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB - 64.4% USB: General UDisk 4GB - 4.9% RAM: Micron 16JTF51264AZ-1G4D1 Kingston 9905403-049.A01G 8GB - 50.7% MBD: HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF PC

The tower is a stock slim hp tower, I also have a spare case which is much bigger if that helps with size compatibility

I was wondering what parts would be compatible with this motherboard to increase my gaming capabilities without decreasing my desktop and workstation capabilities.

I am currently looking into a gt720 as a gpu i also have a corsair xms2 ddr2 Ram card

I am open to suggestions and opinions please help me

a couple options on what gpu would be great..

How would i know if a ram card is compatible or not

Would it be possible to get a suggestion on a budget SSD?

UserBenchmarks: Game 12%, Desk 48%, Work 32% CPU: Intel Core i7-2600 - 69.3% GPU: Intel HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz) - 1.5% HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB - 64.4% USB: General UDisk 4GB - 4.9% RAM: Micron 16JTF51264AZ-1G4D1 Kingston 9905403-049.A01G 8GB - 50.7% MBD: HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF PC

 

[hang-the-9]

a 720 is not a gaming card, it was not one when new, and for sure not one now that it's several years old.

Your DDR2 RAM you can toss or sell on ebay, your system uses DDR3.

OEM systems tend to have issues using gaming video cards, and you are going to be limited by the motherboard compatibility and power supply. Your motherboard may also have custom case connections, so moving it to another case may not be possible unless you can find adapters.

If you want a system for gaming, best thing to do is sell your system and start clean, or remove the RAM and CPU and get a motherboard/case/power supply for it along with a new video card and SSD. You would save a couple of hundred that way. Of course you can sell your whole PC for about $150 and just get all new parts which will end up being about the same thing.

If you really don't want to upgrade the computer much for gaming, a GT 730 GDDR5 should work in your system. I'd say a newer 1030 may work also but it may not due to the OEM motherboard.