Need advice to choose.

[Muhamed AbdulRhman]

Operating System : Win 8.1 64-bit
Memory : 8192 MB RAM
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G630 @ 2.70GHz
Card Name : AMD Radeon HD 6450 2GB
Current Mode : 1600 x 900 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Motherboard Model : H61M-S2P
Hard Disk Model : WDC 298.09 GB

I want to upgrade for gaming but i'am not sure what to upgrade? is it the processor or the video card? Plus my hard disk is old would that affect my gaming experiences ? Thanks in advance.

 

[James Mason]

Your CPU is pretty weak, and you didnt get enough info about the hard disk to actually know if that's the problem, but if it's old it probably is A problem.
But your motherboard seems to be able to support some much better CPUs, so you're lucky there.
Your graphics card should be fine.
The speed of your ram could be an issue if it's slow ram. The ram your motherboard supports is pretty "meh" though.

 

[Muhamed AbdulRhman]

Okay may i ask if i want to upgrade my processor, Is AMD FX-6300 any good? It beats any intel in its price range and wanna know if my motherboard supports it though and the ram i use is A-DATA 4X2 i bought them 1 year ago.

 

[James Mason]

Okay may i ask if i want to upgrade my processor, Is AMD FX-6300 any good? It beats any intel in its price range and wanna know if my motherboard supports it though.

Nope, your mobo doesnt support it.

Intel cpus only work on intel mobos, amd cpus only work on amd mobos, and the mobo and cpu have to be the same socket (i.e. 1155 for intel, am3 for amd, ect)
this i3-3240 should be better than the 6300 for the same price:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116773
according to tom's anyways:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

On the ram issue we still need more info than that, like the actual model number, that was just the brand and a size.

 

[Muhamed AbdulRhman]

Okay may i ask if i want to upgrade my processor, Is AMD FX-6300 any good? It beats any intel in its price range and wanna know if my motherboard supports it though.

Nope, your mobo doesnt support it.

Intel cpus only work on intel mobos, amd cpus only work on amd mobos, and the mobo and cpu have to be the same socket (i.e. 1155 for intel, am3 for amd, ect)
this i3-3240 should be better than the 6300 for the same price:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116773
according to tom's anyways:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

On the ram issue we still need more info than that, like the actual model number, that was just the brand and a size.

Ok i will go for the i3-3240 and for the ram i used CPU-Z it gave me this:
http://imgur.com/bL182ep

My hard drive is like 8 years old or so, Thanks.

 

[James Mason]

Okay may i ask if i want to upgrade my processor, Is AMD FX-6300 any good? It beats any intel in its price range and wanna know if my motherboard supports it though.

Nope, your mobo doesnt support it.

Intel cpus only work on intel mobos, amd cpus only work on amd mobos, and the mobo and cpu have to be the same socket (i.e. 1155 for intel, am3 for amd, ect)
this i3-3240 should be better than the 6300 for the same price:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116773
according to tom's anyways:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

On the ram issue we still need more info than that, like the actual model number, that was just the brand and a size.

Ok i will go for the i3-3240 and for the ram i used CPU-Z it gave me this:
http://imgur.com/bL182ep

My hard drive is like 8 years old or so, Thanks.

Your ram looks fine 8 gigs at 1600 should be perfectly acceptable for gaming.

Yeah, your hard drive might only be 5400rpm which is pretty bleh, thankfully, getting a newer faster harddrive isn't very expensive, and if you still have your windows install cd, you can reinstall the OS on the new one, and then set it as a the boot drive, and install your new games onto it, while leaving all your old documents on the old HDD.

You can get an SSD http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269.html to have a really fast boot and load time, and as long as you carefully manage the space on it (delete games you dont use, don't put the downloads folder on it, ect) it will be easily manageable.

Or get an HDD that's faster: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007603%20600457691%20600457686%20600457687&IsNodeId=1&name=10000%20RPM&Order=RATING