Upgrading PC with i3 and 1050 ti

[yungthrowawayisback]

Hello, I am thinking of upgrading my current pc. I have an ASUS 1050ti and an i3 3240 with 8gb ram, p67a g45 MB.My psu is RM750. My HDD is Western Digital Blue 500GB. Thanks in advance!

 

[RememberThe5th]

Main thing, what is your budget?
Which monitor resolution?
What do you expect from upgrade?

 

[yungthrowawayisback]

Main thing, what is your budget?
Which monitor resolution?
What do you expect from upgrade?

My Monitor is 1920x1080(S24D300). Well I am searching something mid range. My PC is getting laggy sometimes( I have done a clean format many times). I usually play mid end games, no other extraordinary use. Thanks for your quick reply!

 

[RememberThe5th]

Well i5-3570, i7-3770, and 1060 6GB, and another 8 stick of same ram.
DDR3 should be cheap around 40-50$, i5 around 80$,i7 100$, and gpu 200$.
350$ in total which should be pretty good for 1080p gaming.
Or another option but with keeping the gpu is getting onto new platform if you wanna, like i3-8100 (Quad core), or Ryzen 1st gen or RyzenG.

 

[yungthrowawayisback]

Well i5-3570, i7-3770, and 1060 6GB, and another 8 stick of same ram.
DDR3 should be cheap around 40-50$, i5 around 80$,i7 100$, and gpu 200$.
350$ in total which should be pretty good for 1080p gaming.
Or another option but with keeping the gpu is getting onto new platform if you wanna, like i3-8100 (Quad core), or Ryzen 1st gen or RyzenG.

Do you believe that changing socket to 1151 is worth it, cosidering I don't want to change my gpu?

 

[RememberThe5th]

Against i3 3rd/4th gen, from my perspective, yes. I upgraded from i3 4th gen to xeon (similar to i5-4570), and it was worth it for mearly 80$ which iy heavily under the price in my country usually sold at 100$+.

 

[SkyNetRising]

If you don't want to upgrade your GPU, then I'd start with upgrading ram to 16GB and getting SSD for OS drive.
If that doesn't have enough of impact for you, then consider upgrading cpu to i5 (compatible with your board).

Upgrading to LGA1151 is whole new level of expenses - new motherboard, new cpu, new ram. Probably not, what you expect from mid range expenses.

 

[yungthrowawayisback]

Against i3 3rd/4th gen, from my perspective, yes. I upgraded from i3 4th gen to xeon (similar to i5-4570), and it was worth it for mearly 80$ which iy heavily under the price in my country usually sold at 100$+.

i3-8100 is 114 euros in my country right now. Do you know a MB 1151 that allso supports ddr3. Is it better to switch to a mb that only supports ddr4?

 

[yungthrowawayisback]

If you don't want to upgrade your GPU, then I'd start with upgrading ram to 16GB and getting SSD for OS drive.
If that doesn't have enough of impact for you, then consider upgrading cpu to i5 (compatible with your board).

Upgrading to LGA1151 is whole new level of expenses - new motherboard, new cpu, new ram. Probably not, what you expect from mid range expenses.

Problem is I searched some stores near me but they don't sell 1155 CPUs, which is quite strange.

 

[SkyNetRising]

There are no DDR3 boards that would support 8th gen Intel cpus (i3-8100).
Memory controller is built into cpu nowadays. 8th gen Intel supports DDR4 only.

 

[SkyNetRising]

For LGA 1155 you'd need to look for used cpus.

 

[yungthrowawayisback]

For LGA 1155 you'd need to look for used cpus.

I have bad experience with used components. Is there a 1151 MB,RAM and CPU that you would suggest?

 

[RememberThe5th]

Cpus rarley have issues as they are sturdy.
Ive bent my gtx 470, drilled the stuck screw, still works fine, even delided.

 

[yungthrowawayisback]

Cpus rarley have issues as they are sturdy.
Ive bent my gtx 470, drilled the stuck screw, still works fine, even delided.

I guess I'll gather some money and change my MB CPU RAMs or buy a used CPU then.