Advice on old motherboard with new graphics card + RAM

[ellspeedy]

Hi all,

Hope this is allowed by feel free to delete if not.

A friend has a very old PC and is just looking to get a graphics card RAM to give it a bit of a new lease of life. I told him to consider a new PC but he just wants to upgrade a few bits so....

His motherboard is: Gigabyte Technology Co Ltd P31-ES3G.

Main question is - will any graphics card + RAM sticks be compatible here or is he likely to run into any issues?

Will be looking at 16gb RAM and a fairly cheap graphics card that can handle games like two point hospital, tropico, planet zoo etc.

Any advice here would very much appreciated as I'm not 100% sure myself!

Thanks PCS community (Y)

 

[SpyderTracks]

Hi all,

Hope this is allowed by feel free to delete if not.

A friend has a very old PC and is just looking to get a graphics card RAM to give it a bit of a new lease of life. I told him to consider a new PC but he just wants to upgrade a few bits so....

His motherboard is: Gigabyte Technology Co Ltd P31-ES3G.

Main question is - will any graphics card + RAM sticks be compatible here or is he likely to run into any issues?

Will be looking at 16gb RAM and a fairly cheap graphics card that can handle games like two point hospital, tropico, planet zoo etc.

Any advice here would very much appreciated as I'm not 100% sure myself!

Thanks PCS community (Y)

The forums are for support on PCSpecialist systems I'm afraid, we can't comment on self builds or competitor products.

They may find an open forum like Tom's hardware more help