So i gave my brother a quite old pc of mine.
He doesnt really care about pc's other than internet and minecraft

Literally everything runs slow on it lol even trying to open browser can take 20 mins

so I am going to basically reinstall windows, but I do wanna upgrade some stuff in it


Current stuff:

Mobo: Asrock 760GM-GS3
Cpu: amd phenom ii x4 965 black edition
GPU: Amd Radeon 7770 HD
Ram: ddr3 1600 2x2gb sticks (this is already a easy upgrade i have 2x4gb coming in)


Wondering if cpu or gpu would be the better upgrade?

gpu im thinking would be gtx 750ti?

Does it have an HDD or SSD? That would be where I would start since SSD prices are cheap. A 128gb or even 256gb Data SSD is a quick drop-in for a massive speed boost if it's on HDD. Since you're doing a fresh install, make that his boot drive

After that, unless you have a keen eye on the secondary market or a very limited budget I would consider migrating to new MOBO +DDR4. Given his use-case, you could probably get away with integrated graphics from a newer generation of CPU

Unless you're willing to spend the time searching the used markets for a CPU/GPU, then just modernize your system to DDR4 (like the post above).

GTX 750Ti uses PCIe Gen3...and your motherboard supports Gen2. It should still work but I'm not sure if it makes sense to me. I do think (if you had to pick either CPU or GPU to upgrade) this would make the better choice in this current situation. I don't like it, but if forced to choose, this is it. But it's stupid really...don't you think?

This post was edited by Xet on Apr 29 2022 01:49pm

oh yea i forgot to mention i have a chinese 2.5in ssd that came with my ibuypower prebuilt(they stated nvme m.2 HA) that i replaced with a actual nvme m.2 ssd that I am going to throw in his pc also



yea i misread the asrock website for that mobo thought it stated pcie 3.0.



I was considering upgrading mobo for ddr4 as i have a few sticks from the above mentioned prebuilt that i had to replace as i got the dark rock pro 4 and they had huge rgb ram in it lol
since i already bought the new ddr3 ram for 12$ and have ssd ill prob try that and then go from there
i actually think i may have a gtx 780ti sitting in closet from someone who was throwing out computers lol ill have to try that and see if it works if the minor upgrade doesnt do it

Sounds like you do a Frankenstein build with what you have and then if it's not satisfactory, look at upgrading MOBO+CPU to a 2019-2021 generation build. Used parts are getting cheaper as newer parts become more readily available.

As Xet mentioned, I don't think you need to dump money into what you have

Yea my brother has a msi z170a m3 with i5 6400 and for some reason a visiontek radeon hd 7750 with 6 mini displayports he got for free
so there a easy upgrade with my ddr4 ram and gpu i should be set