Have a older system with an iTX case. (think i3-4XXX 8gb RAM)
Happy with the case, storage, power supply, GPU (RX-570) at this point, just after a decent upgrade to make games like DayZ, CS-Go, Rust load reasonably well and not crash :)
Any bundles or suggestions. Obviously iTX would be great, but I guess could move to a bigger case if it was hugely more economical to do so.
MOB CPU and RAM combo to play "DayZ, CS-Go and Rust load reasonably well without crashing" "Obviously iTX would be great"
No budget as looking at most economical new equipment to achieve task. The target is clearly outlined
Cheap Incremental MBO and CPU Upgrade
I had a look at a few builds for i3-4xxx and they all seem to use DDR3 RAM. Which means you will also need to swap out your RAM as well for newer* MBO/CPU upgrade.
*I don't think there is value in getting second hand mobo/cpu compatible with ddr3 RAM. Double check what the bottleneck is when you play those games, I think it could be your RAM? Otherwise you will need to look into mobo/cpu/ram combo.
5600 with mobo + 16gb should set you back ~ $475 on ebay atm
EDIT: it's actually 375…
I don't know of any knock your socks off bundle deals right now and I've been keeping an eye out. Suggestion would be to start by finding a mini-itx motherboard with the features you like on PC Part Picker for a price within the range you want, then pick up a compatible CPU (maybe a Ryzen 5600 if you end up on the AMD side of things, good chart here to help you choose where you want to fall on price/performance https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html#xy_sca… ) and then pick up 16 or 32 GB of RAM, also using PC Part Picker and OzB to find a good price. I'm sure others will say to hold on a bit, as there's always something coming around the bend that'll drop prices, but you could play that game forever. Gotta just jump in at some point.
I don't think it would be worth to do an incremental upgrade, just sell it and replace it with something like this Dell OptiPlex 7040 SFF i5 6500 3.2GHz 8GB 500GB W10P Computer | 3mth Wty for $169, you can use PSU and GPU. There were some deals for 7th gen Optiplex 7050 as well.
IIRC Dells have proprietary power supplies so they probably couldn't use their current PSU. Also that proprietary one probably wouldn't have the wattage to drive a decent video card. Nevermind that it's in a sff case and their video card could very well be a normal full size one. And those issues aside, this would be more of a sideways-grade than an upgrade. $169 to get not much of a performance increase.
yeah sort of, I thought OP has a low profile card as he got a ITX board anyway. I had a minitower Acer S6610 (almost like SFF, with i5-2400 + Q67 + 16 GB DDR3) back then with a SFX PSU, but I was able to install a full size GTX 1060 GPU + new 450 W SFX PSU to upgrade it. Didn't know that Dell uses different connector instead of a standard ATX.
I sold the internals of that PC and upgraded the same case with a 5600x + B550M + 32 GB DDR4 for $600 last year.
There are multiple problems with what you think is possible.
The cyclical nature of system building means your whole system is basically not fit for upgrade.
The motherboard and cpu need to be upgraded together, your system is ddr3, we are currently on ddr5.
Your power supply is close to 10 years old, the older a psu gets the less efficiency it has and more prone to blowing up and taking the rest of your system with it.
The older the case is, the more chance it has very poor cooling ability.
Basically the only thing you can salvage from your pc is the video card which is a RX-570, if you did use that video card with a newish build it would cripple the systems video gaming performance.
So basically you need a whole new pc. Incremental upgrades only works when you do it within 2-3 years of your systems purchase, not nearly 10 years later.
Good on you for making your parts last. Swap out the CPU for a same gen i7 ($60 for 4770), add another 8GB DDR3 1600 ($30).
I am personally running i7-4770 with R9 380. No issues, and your GPU is already better than mine.
Thanks everyone. Love the tips
Picked up
5600x
B550m
16gb ram
$450
How did you get all that for $450? CPU (289) and Board ($209) alone is $498?
no budget, no target, just an aimless post