Upgrade or start over?

[halomon]

Hello guys,

I built a system a few years ago and it's starting to get a bit slow. Right now I've got an
MSI nf980-G65 MB, with 4 GB of ram a 3 core ADM cpu and an MSi GTX460 video card. Do you guys think it's worth a new CPU +ram+Graphics on this motherboard or replace that too?

Budget is flexable, I just look for value to dollar ratio mostly and I'm not sure if it's worth keeping the MB or not. It still works fine.

Halomon

 

[spooky2th]

CPU's for those AM2 boards are really hard to find these days. Can probably buy a used one. A Phenom II X6 1090T would be the best you could install. I would start looking around for a newer board and a newer CPU. Then a newer GPU. Plus a decent 2x4GB memory kit. basically a new comp. maybe can use your old case and optical drives if they are sata drives.

 

[DonkeyOatie]

Time to start again. Temporarily, you can add RAM, and upgrade your GPU and PSU. The GPU is still probably be the limiting factor and a GPU upgrade will shift it to the CPU. Finally, new mother board and CPU. This order is chosen so you can get the best CPU as your system upgrades.

 

[halomon]

That's what I was thinking. Thanks for the help guys.

I'll check the guides in a few months for builds.

Halolmon