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Hi, I'd like to Upgrade my PC and be able to play the latest games (ideally RDD2), with a 400-500€ budget. Is it possible ? here's my PC :

motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H77-DH
CPU: Intel Core i5-3330 3.00GHz (4CPU) ~3.2GHz
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 (2g ram)
16g ram

Power outlet Chieftec 500W



is an SSD drive necessary ?



Many thanks !
 
Probably you would need a bigger budget for the rockstar cowboy game if you want to play it with good settings and resolution. With that budget you can play it on a console.
 
You'd be cutting a lot of corners to do it at that price.

I think an SSD is necessary in this day and age.
 
What resolution? Minimum expectations?

You can probably play it at 1080p on low everything.

You can move to a 1650 (ti?) gpu, but unless you want to start an endless upgrade cycle, I’d just dial down the settings for now.

The cpu is good enough, but reaching the end of it’s life. Any upgrade to that requires almost an entirely new system. (Ram, board, cpu) any other gpu needs power that I’m betting that psu isn’t capable of offering.
 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ig...c-benchmark-what-you-need-to-play-at-4k?amp=1
Not sure if above is a good comparison of benchmarks.
But what they say above is probably accurate, but you could upgrade to a 3770 for $80 ish, maybe a rx570 for $100 ish... which doubles your CPU and gpu... but to make significant jumps you might need a bigger overhaul. You might be able to drop some settings to get it playable at 1080p.
 
Hmmmm, I use an FX-8350, GA-970a AM3+ motherboard, 4x4GB DDR3 1600 cost me under $200 on ebay and GTX 970 runs recently released games on high settings at 60 fps @ 1080p
 
HAL_404 said:
Hmmmm, I use an FX-8350, GA-970a AM3+ motherboard, 4x4GB DDR3 1600 cost me under $200 on ebay and GTX 970 runs recently released games on high settings at 60 fps @ 1080p
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That may be so but you won't be playing RDR2 on high 1080p 60 fps with it. I saw a review using a 9900k, with a GTX 1060 gets 32 fps.
 
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TheFlayedMan said:
That may be so but you won't be playing RDR2 on high 1080p 60 fps with it. I saw a review using a 9900k, with a GTX 1060 gets 32 fps.
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yea, that way folks have to update their hardware, never ending cycle every 5 years or so. Game makers and GPU makers are tight buds ...
 
If that is what you have now, then a budget of $500 in upgrade will for sure get it going.. Drop in the fastest chip into the socket you can afford like an E3 1250 V2 xeon. Then put the rest into a modern graphics card with respect to that chieftec power supply.. Chieftec makes a few name brands of power supplys. it might not need upgrading
 
op, what he/they said^^^


HAL_404 said:
Hmmmm, I use an FX-8350, GA-970a AM3+ motherboard, 4x4GB DDR3 1600 cost me under $200 on ebay and GTX 970 runs recently released games on high settings at 60 fps @ 1080p
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you might get 1080p/60fps on medium with that rig ion rdr2. my sig rig cant maintain 1080p60, it swings between 45 and 60.
 
I just priced this out on NewEgg, so with a little hunting (and if you go used, check our forums :)) you can probably do at least as good if not better.

MSI Tomahawk B450 Max - $114 US (highly recommended by Hardware Unboxed, supports Ryzen 3000 series CPUs including the $750 16 core/32 thread R9 3950X)
AMD Ryzen R7 2700X 8 core/16 thread CPU - $189 (comes with heatsink and a code for either Borderlands 3 or The Outer Worlds)
16G (2x8G) DDR4-3200 GSkill Ripjaws RAM - $60 (currently on sale, using 2 sticks for dual channel)
250G 2.5" SATA 250G Mushkin 3DNand TLC SSD - $30 (also on sale, use this for OS and apps, use your existing HDD in addition to this for bulk storage)
MSI Radeon RX 580 8G Video Card - $121 (Open Box/Refurbished)

Total - $514 US and will blow the doors off of what you have now, and you can get a massive CPU boost as a drop-in replacement later on down the road.
 
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