Hi All,
First post here! I was looking for some advice on upgrades to make to my PC and where I would see my best performance increases. As a backstory, I built this PC about 4 years ago on a VERY tight budget. Basically everything internal was pretty cheap except I had a friend give me a really good graphics card. At the time ( and for the most part today) my main gaming was lesser graphically intense MMOs such as WoW and SWTOR, and this PC has held up extremely well. To this day I am playing WoW with settings all the way on max and I am still seeing 100+ FPS most everywhere with drops to ~60 FPS occasionally in major cities and raids...not bad at all.
Well now that we are in week 8 of quarantine, I am kinda looking for a project at the same time as expanding my gaming library. Lately, I have been really into COD but playing on my console and would love to start playing Halo and a few others on PC that might be a little bit more graphically intense than WoW. I think that it would be great to tear down my current PC and rebuild with some newer components and have an almost new rig that can handle some additional games.
In doing some research, I have learned that my graphics card still holds up decently well, and was hoping that perhaps upgrading the components around it would be beneficial. Also, for fun, I want to put everything into a newer, cooler case. With that being said, I was hoping to see what everyone thought about swapping out certain components and what type of performance increases I might see. Was hoping to stay around $500 for all upgrades. Please see my parts below and let me know what you think would be best!
Gigabyte R9 290x Graphics Card
Intel i3 4370 CPU
Cheap AsRock mini-ITX mobo
8gb DDR4 RAM
Intel 128gb SSD
EVGA Bronze 650 Watt Power Supply
Crappy Mini-ITX case
*I can get details on my mobo and ram if needed but am away from that PC right now
First post here! I was looking for some advice on upgrades to make to my PC and where I would see my best performance increases. As a backstory, I built this PC about 4 years ago on a VERY tight budget. Basically everything internal was pretty cheap except I had a friend give me a really good graphics card. At the time ( and for the most part today) my main gaming was lesser graphically intense MMOs such as WoW and SWTOR, and this PC has held up extremely well. To this day I am playing WoW with settings all the way on max and I am still seeing 100+ FPS most everywhere with drops to ~60 FPS occasionally in major cities and raids...not bad at all.
Well now that we are in week 8 of quarantine, I am kinda looking for a project at the same time as expanding my gaming library. Lately, I have been really into COD but playing on my console and would love to start playing Halo and a few others on PC that might be a little bit more graphically intense than WoW. I think that it would be great to tear down my current PC and rebuild with some newer components and have an almost new rig that can handle some additional games.
In doing some research, I have learned that my graphics card still holds up decently well, and was hoping that perhaps upgrading the components around it would be beneficial. Also, for fun, I want to put everything into a newer, cooler case. With that being said, I was hoping to see what everyone thought about swapping out certain components and what type of performance increases I might see. Was hoping to stay around $500 for all upgrades. Please see my parts below and let me know what you think would be best!
Gigabyte R9 290x Graphics Card
Intel i3 4370 CPU
Cheap AsRock mini-ITX mobo
8gb DDR4 RAM
Intel 128gb SSD
EVGA Bronze 650 Watt Power Supply
Crappy Mini-ITX case
*I can get details on my mobo and ram if needed but am away from that PC right now