Upgrading Current PC

[TaPPerS2]

Hello!

Just as a bit of a back story: I am a 15 year old student from the UK. My parents are good, honest working people who cannot afford to throw money away on a PC. Therefore I am on an extremely tight budget (of as cheap as possible and nothing over £250 and even then that's a massive stretch.) I have been putting up with this horrible refurbished packard bell imedia S2360 (I believe that's the model) which currently has a 1.7 GHz AMD E2-1800 APU. This PC can hardly even run CSGO/TF2.

As I want to play CSGO I need some form up upgrade. Due to my strict budget a full new build out of the picture. I was hoping to just have to upgrade the current APU to another one. However from the research I have done the current CPU is soldiered onto the motherboard. So I have to upgrade the CPU and Motherboard.

I am not sure weather to go for another APU, or get a CPU and a 750ti or something. I am open to any suggestions. The PC currently has 4gb ram, which I think I wont be upgrading for now.

I am not sure how large the PSU is, if anyone could help me with finding it out that would be great. The case I believe is a micro ATX (These are the measurements of it: H=27cm L=35cm W=10cm) I will post some pictures of inside the case later. I am hoping I wont need a new case in order to fit these parts in.

Here are the parts I was thinking of for the CPU + 750ti upgrade.
CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor (£52.16 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£44.46 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card (£89.98 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £186.60

With the OS I am hoping to keep the current hard drive. This used to have windows 7 installed (of which i still have the product key) and currently has windows 10 on it. Will I just be able to switch out the parts and still have a working OS without doing anything?

If anyone actually read all of this, thank you and I hope you can help me out with this.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£95.30 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-D2V DDR3 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£49.20 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£26.18 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 160GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£14.00 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Rosewill SRM-01 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£24.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£39.98 @ Novatech)
Total: £249.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-19 22:11 GMT+0000

 

[TaPPerS2]

Here is a link to the imgur album ( http://imgur.com/a/UVB4F ) featuring pictures of inside the case. sorry about the bad quality had to use my phone. On the PSU there was a sticker that said something about 220-240W. The text was faded and unclear so I cant really gather much else from it.

Also turkey3_scratch, Im glad you took the time to read the post before replying....

 

[Derza10]

If it is an OEM version of windows, the product key is tied to the motherboard, if you buy a new motherboard you will need a new OS product key... So you should budget in a new OS as well because this is most likely the case for your situation.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Neh, don't keep the power supply. High chances are it's a low quality unit. The integrated graphics processor on the I3-6100 will give you a much better graphics experience in CSGO than you were getting before. Power supply I included above is very high quality - treasure that, as many people with strict budgets get poor power supplies that blow or die on them within a year.

Also, Derza is right BTW. But that would be a hard budget.

 

[TaPPerS2]

Will that PSU fit in the current case?
Does that also mean I need a new hard drive? Or will it just ask me to put in a new product key?
So if i get that CPU i wont need a graphics card?

Thanks all for your help so far.

EDIT: what about the AMD A10 5800K Black Edition CPU 3.8GHZ, 4MB Cache, 4 Core, HD7660D, Socket FM2

For £69 at http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0095VP8D4/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?qid=1447972493&sr=8-3&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=amd+a10&dpPl=1&dpID=51-colww7FL&ref=plSrch
I know theres a massive argument over AMD vs Intel but maybe in this budget it might be the better option? Aslong as it can run csgo i dont care about anything tbh.

 

[Wolfshadw]

With the OS I am hoping to keep the current hard drive. This used to have windows 7 installed (of which i still have the product key) and currently has windows 10 on it.

When did you upgrade to Windows 10? If it's been more than 30 days, your Windows 7 OEM license has been upgraded to a Windows 10 OEM license and cannot be transferred to a new system. You will need to purchase a new Windows license. If it's been less than 30 days, you can roll back to Windows 7. Your OEM license is still tied to the motherboard, but there is a chance that Microsoft will allow you to reinstall it onto a different motherboard.

-Wolf sends

 

[turkey3_scratch]

You want integrated graphics because a dedicated GPU is out of your budget. Intel for sure is the better option, and the I3 will perform far better in games than the Athlon.