Hey, I'm looking to spend 50-200 pounds on upgrading the following PC, yet i'm unsure of the bottle neck. What can I do for this budget? CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9150e Mobo: Acer AMD RS780HVF RAM: 8gb DDR2 800 MHz GPU: Nvidia GeForce 9500GT (DDR2 512mb) Thank you!
But if you still wanna play some good 3D games you can buy an second hand video card:Gtx 660 or R9 270 or R9 265 2GB GDDR5. You can also OC your CPU to 2.2 GHz.
I would strongly advise nvidia in his case. his cpu bottleneck will be even worse with AMD cards. a 750ti would be a nice card for this system IMO.
Its not recomended,if he dont know how to do it,to push the cpu more than 300-400MHz.His CPU its @ 1.8GHz default clock. Phenom X4 9150e spec After 500MHz OC maybe need to increase voltage... Gtx 660 its better,but only second hand card on e.g. ebay.
Hey dude Most of the response your getting is very accurate, it almost isn't worth upgrading that one at all, at least as far as modern PC gaming goes. If you got a much better video card, it would be held back entirely by your CPU and getting a better CPU doesn't help much either, and you don't really have any other options with that hardware. On the other hand if you just enjoy older and simpler PC games a better video card like the ones mentioned could help tremendously. If you want to play newer titles like BF4, Star Wars, The Division, The Witcher 3, etc, etc... You are going to have to go all new Later
Thanks for this, it'll only be until uni comes round so i'm not too bothered about it. Secondly, I need something that churns through data fast, with high rendering capabilities. I'm looking to spend 600-800 on a new desktop, I don't mind custom building as a family member is comfortable with it, what would your advice be and where should I focus my budget. Thank you!
It really depends how and what software you gonna use for rendering. Some software utilize GPU, some utilize more CPU cores and less optimized software relying on raw CPU core performance. Some rendering works better with AMD CPUs like encoding/decoding, and other works better with Intel CPUs. If you not sure, going for modern Intel CPU with any mid-high end GPU should serve you fine.