Hey all,
Back in 2013 I built my gaming PC, and did this on a budget.
At the time it worked great and could run Skyrim on very high graphics easily with no lag
As a few years have now passed, its got slower and slower, until it now takes about 20 mins (no joke) from first pressing the power button, to being fully usable
My question is, looking at my below specs, can upgrading 1 or 2 elements make my PC fast and usable again, or has it gone too far and i'd be better off starting a new rig?
I don't use it all that often so want to keep it on a budget still as much as possible
Thanks for all your help.
My specs are as follows:
Komputerbay 8GB RAM ( 2 x 4gb DDr3 DIMM)
Seagate Barracuda 500gb HDD
VTX3D AMD Radeon HD 7750 graphics Card
AMD HDZ965FBGMBOX Phenom ii X4 965 3.4ghz AM3 Black edition CPU
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 AMD 760G )Socket AM3+ Micro-ATX Motherboard
corsair CX500
If I missed anything major off here, please let me know (didn't think keyboards, mice, screens etc really matter)
Back in 2013 I built my gaming PC, and did this on a budget.
At the time it worked great and could run Skyrim on very high graphics easily with no lag
As a few years have now passed, its got slower and slower, until it now takes about 20 mins (no joke) from first pressing the power button, to being fully usable
My question is, looking at my below specs, can upgrading 1 or 2 elements make my PC fast and usable again, or has it gone too far and i'd be better off starting a new rig?
I don't use it all that often so want to keep it on a budget still as much as possible
Thanks for all your help.
My specs are as follows:
Komputerbay 8GB RAM ( 2 x 4gb DDr3 DIMM)
Seagate Barracuda 500gb HDD
VTX3D AMD Radeon HD 7750 graphics Card
AMD HDZ965FBGMBOX Phenom ii X4 965 3.4ghz AM3 Black edition CPU
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 AMD 760G )Socket AM3+ Micro-ATX Motherboard
corsair CX500
If I missed anything major off here, please let me know (didn't think keyboards, mice, screens etc really matter)