I'd like to upgrade my gaming rig

[joelucas600]

Hello all, my girlfriend bought me a gaming computer, but it doesn't seem to pack quite the punch I was hoping for. I want something that can run most games on high settings if not, the highest. Here is what I have:

Raidmax Hurricane Steel ATX Case

AMD A8-5600K APU with Radeon HD
Graphics

4GB (1X4GB) DDR3 1333MHz

610 GT 1GB Video Card

AMD FM2 (Hudson D2) Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

250GB 7200 SATA Hard Drive

 

[unksol]

The GT 610 is not a gaming card. its meant for lowend HTPCs. You need a different GPU. The one is you CPU is several levels better but its also low end and won't perform well with that memory either. This is a very odd build.

You also need to provide PSU model, resolution, what games etc

 

[coovargo]

You're going to need a lot more than that for a decent gaming rig. Honestly, the 610 is a very poor performance as far as gaming is concerned (On line nearly with integrated chipsets)

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-660-vs-GeForce-GT-610
For Nvidia, for the most part, the first number is generation. The second number is the ranking in the series. Basically, the 610 is their lowest contender for that generation. You're much better off with a card like a 660 or 660 ti, but you may have to upgrade your power supply with a 6 pin connector.
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-7560D-IGP-vs-GeForce-GT-610
In all honesty, you're better off getting rid of the GPU. Your APU has a faster GPU built into it.

You're going to need at least 4GB of DDR3 RAM. But I highly recommend 8GB.

Your Hard drive is rather. Well. It will work. But I'd just as soon grab a 250GB SSD if you're willing to go that small. Usually get load times about 3x faster dependent on your CPU. But I'm assuming that's pointless.
Let me know the motherboard.