Want to upgrade my PC to a Gaming PC

[Yuri32298]

I have an emachines ET1831, with a EMCP73VT-PM motherboard.
My PC Specs are:
Intel Celeron 450 @ 2.20GHz
3gb DDR2 ram @ 399MHz
500gb hdd
Nvidia GeForce 7100/Nvidia nForce 630i
I want to upgrade my PC to handle games like Outlast and Dayz
what kind of upgrades are good for it?

 

[Bassim Ansari]

You need to upgrade your entire machine.

TEll a budget and we go with your budget.

 

[unknownofprob]

Well, What was your budget?

Lots of things would need to be upgraded to be able to play Dayz well.

The processor/graphics card/PSU/Motherboard would be start, which basically means it would be best to start a new build and re-use old thins like DVD Drive, HDD for meantime, ect.

 

[Yuri32298]

My budget is around $200-$300

 

[unknownofprob]

oh, that could be a problem, is there any way that could come to $700-800?

 

[unknownofprob]

problem is, if you upgrade that machine with a better graphics card, there will be a bottleneck with the CPU and that is never good as your GPU is being limited.

 

[Yuri32298]

is it possible to upgrade just the cpu and gpu?

 

[unknownofprob]

yes, but the motherboard doesn't support high end CPU's to prevent a bottleneck, and if there is one, it'll cost a lot of that budget.

 

[Bassim Ansari]

My budget is around $200-$300

I would recommend you to sell off everything you have for some dollars... except HDD and casing and DVD writer etc.

Then go with this build.

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/BAssim/saved/3Rud

You can spend 300 dollars and add 70 dollars that you get from selling your old stuff.

This is what I can come up with , with such a low budget, and you should be able to play most games with medium settings to high settings.

 

[unknownofprob]

My budget is around $200-$300

I would recommend you to sell off everything you have for some dollars... except HDD and casing and DVD writer etc.

Then go with this build.

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/BAssim/saved/3Rud

You can spend 300 dollars and add 70 dollars that you get from selling your old stuff.

This is what I can come up with , with such a low budget, and you should be able to play most games with medium settings to high settings.

Yes, that is a very, very good combo for the price and defiantly look into what build he has suggested. You can make adjustments to that build if you need to.