[SOLVED] Will better GPU make my ancient PC faster?

[brann]

This is my PC

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (Conroe-4M, B2) 2400 MHz (9.00x266.7) @ 2399 MHz (9.00x266.6)
Motherboard: MSI MS-7238
Chipset: Intel P965 (Broadwater-P) + ICH8(R)
RAM: 8GB @ 667 MHz, 5-5-5-15
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 620, 1024 MB DDR3 SDRAM
Drive: SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series, 62.5 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 3Gb/s
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Professional (x64) Build 19041.508 (2004/May 2020 Update)
PSU: Corsair 600W

I'm waiting for all the new tech to come out now this year and upgrade to something that will last me as long as this one have, probably next year

I just put an extra 4GB Ram into it, so it's at its maximum of 8GB now and was thinking about spending 20-40 Euro on better GPU
Quadro K620, GTX650-660 or even better could be had for that money on ebay

Don't care about gamimg, what I want is running fine on this PC (I'm a dinosaur, I know)
What I'm looking for is to make a desktop experience as fast and smooth as possible. Will better GPU help, or is the CPU and the rest of specs the problem.

I would like to push this configuration to it's maximum. so it can still serve someone with little demands after I buy a new one
Is it worth trying?

Thanks

 

[SteveRX4]

Yes. But not too big on the GPU otherwise you;'ll find the CPU bottlenecking it.
Most of what makes the experience smooth and fast, on the desktop, is the CPU.

 

[brann]

Thanks. Yes that's what Im thinking too. In performance monitor, GPU is barely utilised. Let say I open website in chrome, CPU runs at 80-90% for a few seconds, while GPU barely moves at 5-15. Is rendering websites always CPU's job or does the system decide the GPU is too weak and lets CPU handle it?

 

[SteveRX4]

Opening tabs and browsing in chrome requires hardly any graphics card effort.
It's manily ram and cpu that get used the most.
The extra 4gb ram should help. Does all 8gb show up in Task Manager? Quite often if you mix ram up one or both of the sticks won't work.

 

[brann]

All 8GB shows, opening a few apps and 10 or so tabs in chrome gets ram usage up
in use 4.6 GB
commited 6.3/10.9 GB

so yes, it should help to run it faster compared with 4 GB without having to manage opened apps and tabs

There probably is no point spending any more money on this PC, it's running just fine for what I need now

thanks

 

[SteveRX4]

If you're happy with it then that's fine. An upgrade would mean replacing 90% of it.