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Advice needed - older PC upgrade for low end gaming
Posted on 5/18/22 at 10:52 am
Posted on 5/18/22 at 10:52 am
I recently built a gaming PC to replace a 7 year old PC that I didn't use for gaming. One of my kids recently played Fortnite on it and of course it was spotty and low FPS. I wanted the board's opinion on if I could do anything to make it somewhat viable for average gameplay. It currently stands at:
Intel i7-4790K Quad Core 4.0GHz
GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-SLI LGA 1150 Intel Z97
32GB of Kingston HyperX Fury White 1866MHz DDR3
SAMSUNG - 850 EVO-SERIES - 500GB Solid State Drive
EVGA GeForce GT 740 2GB GDDR5 128bit
The MB has one NVME M.2 slot so I purchased a MSI SPATIUM M390 M.2 2280 500GB PCIe Gen3 x4 and will install when it comes in.
I am willing to go for a newer GPU but I want to know if getting one in the sub $400 range will do any good.
Thanks.
Intel i7-4790K Quad Core 4.0GHz
GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-SLI LGA 1150 Intel Z97
32GB of Kingston HyperX Fury White 1866MHz DDR3
SAMSUNG - 850 EVO-SERIES - 500GB Solid State Drive
EVGA GeForce GT 740 2GB GDDR5 128bit
The MB has one NVME M.2 slot so I purchased a MSI SPATIUM M390 M.2 2280 500GB PCIe Gen3 x4 and will install when it comes in.
I am willing to go for a newer GPU but I want to know if getting one in the sub $400 range will do any good.
Thanks.
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Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:09 am to SaintEB
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I am willing to go for a newer GPU but I want to know if getting one in the sub $400 range will do any good.
Absolutely. Even an upgrade to a high end last gen (2070 Super, 2080 TI) will be substantial.
I think you are even able to find some 3050s or 3060s in the 4-500 range now.
I don't know anything about Intel, so I dunno how good that processor is. Might be able to fairly cheaply upgrade it, too.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:18 am to SaintEB
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I am willing to go for a newer GPU but I want to know if getting one in the sub $400 range will do any good.
A piece of cardboard in your PCI slot will perform better then your current card
This post was edited on 5/18/22 at 11:19 am
Posted on 5/18/22 at 12:39 pm to bluebarracuda
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A piece of cardboard in your PCI slot will perform better then your current card
Low blow, but accurate.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 12:44 pm to SaintEB
The 740, even when it was release, was a terrible terrible card, like really bad, so anything will be an upgrade
The 4790k is still a beast tho
The 4790k is still a beast tho
This post was edited on 5/18/22 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 5/18/22 at 1:02 pm to bluebarracuda
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The 740, even when it was release, was a terrible terrible card, like really bad
I didn't build it to game, but I also had no idea what I was doing in the GPU realm.
quote:
The 4790k is still a beast tho
Good to know. I just wanted to be sure that I could drop a little cash and get something worth it. If what I was working with would hamper the effects of the new GPU, then I would just tell the kid to suck it up.
This post was edited on 5/18/22 at 1:03 pm
Posted on 5/18/22 at 1:35 pm to SaintEB
Any card you can get from either AMD or Nvidia from this gen will beat the breaks off of the card you currently have installed. Just buy what you are willing to pay for and you'll be good.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 2:03 pm to Joshjrn
quote:
Just buy what you are willing to pay for and you'll be good.
Thanks.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 2:10 pm to SaintEB
I have an Asus 1060 6GB you can buy for cheap, just sitting in an old PC in my garage right now
Posted on 5/18/22 at 3:22 pm to bamabenny
How cheap?
This post was edited on 5/18/22 at 10:39 pm
Posted on 5/18/22 at 7:35 pm to SaintEB
I just upgraded my wife's rig from a i7-4770K. I had a 2080 Ti and 1070 Ti in that machine at different points and it ran games very very well with either card (also 32GB RAM and some Samsung SSD).
Posted on 5/18/22 at 7:46 pm to efrad
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32GB RAM
With very few exceptions, games still don't need any more than 16GB. With that said, I just upgraded my RAM because I wanted to have faster RAM, and when I did, I bumped to 32GB, but that was more of a long term thing.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:38 pm to SaintEB
Looks like they’re around 200 on eBay so 100 + whatever shipping costs?
This post was edited on 5/18/22 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 5/18/22 at 10:38 pm to bamabenny
I'm interested.
This post was edited on 5/19/22 at 9:58 am
Posted on 5/18/22 at 10:39 pm to Joshjrn
quote:
With very few exceptions, games still don't need any more than 16GB.
Sure, but I probably have a couple dozen sticks of spare DDR3 at this point, so I might as well have filled it
But on my personal desktop I have 64gb RAM and 16gb allocated to a gaming VM, never needed more than that for games
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:37 am to SaintEB
sent an email
Posted on 5/19/22 at 10:10 am to SaintEB
Here's the relative performance jump you would get from a 1060 6gb, which is already a 6 year old card. Keep in mind something like a 50% jump is huge
Posted on 5/19/22 at 10:37 am to SaintEB
Why not just spend $300 on a Xbox Series S and be done with it for a while.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 11:24 am to bluebarracuda
Lol. I guess bad was an understatement.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 11:26 am to ThuperThumpin
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Why not just spend $300 on a Xbox Series S and be done with it for a while.
So, I have twins. The both play Fortnite. Yes, they are typical annoying 11 year olds on the mic too. I have two PS4s in the house they would play on. One decided he wanted to play on M/K. I guess he thinks its cooler, because it is. But, being 11, I don't want them doing stupid stuff to the PC I just built so I told him I would upgrade the old one for him. He has no desire for an Xbox.
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