Is this gaming pc good?

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if you can live with 480GB for a while I would. HDD's are only getting cheaper as time goes and by the time you need more you may have enough for a 2-3TB spinning drive.
 
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I've got a shitty i5-2400 with radeon r7 and a 250gb hard drive and im living with it for 3 years almost :D It was enough for me to run games like cs:go, lol and really shitty graphics fortnite. Now I want to play pubg and this crap can't run it. So i think i can live with 480gb :D
 

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brace yourself: my rig is 8 years old
AMD 955 black at stock circa 2009
HD 7950 3GB circa 2012 replaced the hd 6970 2GB
8GB DDR3 1600 dual channel. circa 2008
SSD's and HDD's

I would think the GPU is the limiting factor to playing pubg. I play it fairly well, I have capped the FPS to 75, settings at low. when I play I am usually watching a movie on my other screen, the effect is play the game deaf. but my old a$$ rig can play so should yours with a tweak or two. if you can replace the GPU and PSU and add an SSD

if you could get a 1060 and the SSD with a new PSU, you should have enough to play what you want for a while longer, then you can replace the trinity (CPU, RAM, motherboard) as they will need to be replaced together

all advice is assuming a 1080 resolution. higher will need more firepower
which r7 is it?
 
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My pc is really dumb. Its optiplex 790 that has a motherboard that has a cap on pci-e x16 of 25w so i cant put a better gpu and the case is itx so finding a new psu is hard for it. Now it has 300w i think psu that is shit asf but it works so :D Got a good 1920x1080 monitor, logitech g430 headset, mice and keyboard is crap but its good for me :D

Its radeon r7 240
 

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just for your information mine vs yours:
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-R7-240-vs-AMD-HD-7950/m8608vs2160

the 25W sounds wrong as the 240 uses 30W. lets assume that 30W is the limit since it is playing with a 30W card. that leaves the gt1030 which is a huge upgrade from your 240. results are for the gist only.

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GT-1030-vs-AMD-R7-240/m283726vsm8608
this card is way more powerful but still in the power limits. you may need to play at a lower resolution but either way the 1030 is the card to look at in your case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mLDlrLQZXs
 
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I've seen people using 1050ti on these boards but with my psu that is already making some kinda a noise im not risking it. And im tired of this slow pc so thats why im building new one.
 

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my suggestions in the same price. faster CPU 4 core/8 thread will balance better with the 1060 than the 1200, 256GB SSD, keep the HDD you currently have as storage in the new system. a dual fan GPU is always worth the money.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1400 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (€114.82 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (€69.79 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Patriot - Viper 4 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (€96.52 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Kingston - A1000 240GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (€56.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB AMP! Edition Video Card (€225.00 @ Amazon Italia)
Case: Antec - NSK3100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (€33.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - ECO 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (€49.28 @ Amazon Italia)
Total: €646.39
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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