What should i upgrade? £500 - £700 budget.

[lilricky235]

Hi All,

I'm looking to upgrade my PC which i bought pre-built last year. I didn't know about these forums back then so I didn't know the cons of buying pre-built systems. I have never built before, so looking forward to getting to know the trade.

My specs on the PC are -

Processor: AMD Athlon X4-860K CPU, 4 Cores, 3.7 - 4GHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Graphics Card
CPU Cooler: AMD Quiet 95W Stock CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-HD2 Motherboard
Memory: 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz Memory (1 x 8GB Stick)
Hard Drive: Seagate 1TB SSHD Hybrid Drive
Power Supply: Aerocool 80 PLUS 500W PSU

I currently have £500 - £700 to upgrade the parts needed. The PC is used for games such as Racing/First person action games and Modded Minecraft. I don't stream or edit videos.

I hope someone can guide me in the right direction and give me an idea of the best options i could buy to make it as good as possible

Thanks all.

 

[ohenryy]

Something like this:

PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/9JDQhy
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/9JDQhy/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3GHz 8-Core Processor (£200.50 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£69.66 @ More Computers)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£109.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU650 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£36.98 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: PowerColor - Radeon RX 580 8GB Video Card (£214.85 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £631.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-02 22:13 BST+0100

You dont have much stuff you can reuse.. even that PSU is a bit weak.

 

[superrbxandgames]

you should add some more ram, an ssd, and probably a better cpu if you want a big update. I don't think athlon is really good in 2018 anyways.