My little brother is making his first jump into PC gaming, so i've slapped together a bunch of old parts to give him a startup build. Hes got a tax check coming so i told him id go ahead and front him $500-$600 to start doing some upgrades to it. Wanted to see what you guys thought he should be replacing first, and suggestions on the replacement parts. These parts have seen some years, so i can only assume the motherboard and CPU will definitely need an upgrading.

Here is what hes running so far.

Motherboard - ASRock H97M Pro4
CPU - Intel Core i5 4460 @ 3.20GHz
GPU - AMD Radeon R7 370 4gb
RAM - 2X8GB GSkill Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Hard drive 1 - 1863GB Seagate ST2000DL HDD
Hard drive 2 - 931GB Hitachi HDS721010CLA632 HDD
CD Drive - HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH10L SCSI CdRom Device
OS - Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Case - Thermaltake level 10
Power Supply - Thermaltake Smart 750w Bronze80+ non modular

Any advice and suggestions are greatly appreciated from myself and bub.

New vid card, and an SSD.

rsolution? 1080p



if 1080p and that cpu i'd prolly stop around 1070 lvl performance for gpu unless he upgrading that cpu/mobo/ram soon after

Definitely 1080. I should probably add that he wants to be able to play Apex and CoDMW2019 with me. I did some testing today and it seems to run apex at lowest of settings with 60fps, but CoD sits at 30fps and is a nightmare to play at that kinda fps. It's also pretty rough on the CPU(constant 100%) and that's after making all the tweaks for priority.

I imagine he will be willing to replace whatever needs swapping out.

And again, thank you fellas for the input.

I'd honestly sell the whole thing and start over

R5 2600 and a 1660 should be doable

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WpWLwh


$541, you'd keep the HDD, case, and psu from current PC (or get some cheapies to replace, I'd opt for cheapies as it's still in budget)

This post was edited by Penguins0690 on Jan 31 2020 11:09am

Copy that. I dont really see a need to replace the case or Powersupply though. PS is only about 2 years old, and worked flawlessly when i replaced it for my new build, and that case was like $400 new, and is still in perfect condition. No sense in having him downgrade those for the sake of it being new equipment.

if spending money i'd go 3600 period

2600 is so similar to haswell perform but will clock slightly higher with more thread but 3600 you get intel lake single core which is what most games need atm

now if he was playing higher resolution id agree

Well that's why I said some cheapies as the alternative. Really only suggested that cause PC's are hard to sell parted out



Wouldn't fit his budget and 1660 is recommended for codmw19

budget 600
3600, mobo, ram, ssd, all could be had for little over 400
leaves like 200 for a card

580 590 5500xt could be there too along with nvidias <200 offerings

I appreciate it fellas. I swapped the SSD and RAM sticks around to some equivalents that Amazon had available to be able to ship next day. Got a buddy who hit me back and said he either has either a 1050/1060/1070 that i can have for him if i cover shipping. Waiting on him to get back with exactly what it is before i tell him to go ahead and buy a new GPU. I figured if its either a 1060 or 1070 that he should probably just save the money and run one of those for the time being. For $20 compared to $200, it seems like the smarter bet. Yay, nay?