[Help] Building Low End Gaming PC

[loneZX]

Need some help with building a low end gaming pc. Budget would be about $800+? Hope to play most games at 60fps since my current one runs about 50fps on low-medium settings. Also should I go for overclocking?

 

[royfrosty]

What is your current system config?

 

[loneZX]

What is your current system config?

Intel i5-3470
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630
8 GB Ram

Tbh I know nothing much about my current pc. :/

 

[dolphinv]

Intel i5-3470
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630
8 GB Ram

Tbh I know nothing much about my current pc. :/

lol i5 3470 no need upgrade la.
Just change graphic card to gtx 970 can liao. make sure psu support.
Since u willing to spend 800 dollars can get ssd also.

 

[royfrosty]

Intel i5-3470
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630
8 GB Ram

Tbh I know nothing much about my current pc. :/

Download:

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

Run it. And show us all your pc specs.

Open about a few of them and show us the motherboard, CPU, Memory and Graphics.

Screenshot the entire thing and paste here.

Also open up your PC, check what is the total wattage of your power supply.

If you can give us all this info, we can help you further and save even more money.

 

[loneZX]

This?
i(dot)imgur(dot)com/v6uT02k.png
Can't really post links yet. Not enough posts

Edit : My power supply gives out 270W

 

[lccpor123]

This?

Can't really post links yet. Not enough posts

Edit : My power supply gives out 270W

Help you embed

 

[royfrosty]

Then you just need this few upgrades.

But first what brand is this pc?

Im suspecting this is a branded pc.

You will need to upgrade your power supply and your graphics card.

An ssd would be nice if you willing to redo the whole windows installation.

Fsp hexa 550w ~ $69
Msi gtx 970 4gb armor ~ $505 (Buy at lazada.sg and use 18m1anniv code for a $50 max capped discount) $450
Samsung evo 850 250gb ssd ~ $180 (optional)

 

[loneZX]

Then you just need this few upgrades.

But first what brand is this pc?

Im suspecting this is a branded pc.

You will need to upgrade your power supply and your graphics card.

An ssd would be nice if you willing to redo the whole windows installation.

Fsp hexa 550w ~ $69
Msi gtx 970 4gb armor ~ $505 (Buy at lazada.sg and use 18m1anniv code for a $50 max capped discount) $450
Samsung evo 850 250gb ssd ~ $180 (optional)

HP. (tooshort)

 

[MoneyFace =p]

Please take some snapshot of your PC chassis overall and the interior.

 

[MoneyFace =p]

Most likely you can throw these and get new ones, the rest can reuse: Chassis, Power Supply, Graphics Card

 

[loneZX]

Most likely you can throw these and get new ones, the rest can reuse: Chassis, Power Supply, Graphics Card

Any example of which chassis I should get?

 

[MoneyFace =p]

Any example of which chassis I should get?

Show us yours first.

 

[noidea]

I believe most casing for ready PCs are mATX.
even the place where I work comes in mATX

 

[loneZX]

Well my phone camera sucks and my room lighting also sucks
imgur com/a/G8hKb

 

[rambez]

Some HP motherboards are proprietary and can only work with their psu. The mb doesn't have the 24 pin connector.

 

[Jian19]

think u need a new case and powersupply

 

[dolphinv]

Yup looks like a HP matx case. PSU is default one and doesn't look like have 6pin/8 pin for GPU. Also not sure if mobo BIOS support third party graphic card as I read on forums some people have problem detecting. ( this is unverified and as said not sure) . hope the pros can come in suggest. Anyway will need to change case as unable to fit full length graphic card. Only low profile ones into the case. Edit: from google of main board based on similar question from tomshardware seems like the foxcon 2ada will support other graphic card. Hopefully there is no BIOS restriction by hp

 

[Jian19]

u can reuse ur cpu chip, ram, hdd

motherboard ~ $100
gtx970 ~ $500
128gb ssd ~ $90
powersupply ~ $80
case ~ $40

roughly ba

 

[loneZX]

What would be a recommended motherboard to change to?