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Considering an upgrade

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I have a dell xps8100:

i5-650 3.2 ghz
Radeon HD 5450
6gb of ram
500GB HDD
Sound Blaster Z

I mostly play CSGO and other similar games(gary's mod, team fortress,etc). Looking for an improvement in FPS or possibly playing at higher resolution.

Wondering if its worth it for me to upgrade and if so what I should upgrade. No real budget in mind, but it has to make sense as an upgrade to a computer that is close to 4 years old.
 
Upgrade to the GTX 750 Ti and you'll be fine for CS:GO.
 
a ssd is low cost and has been the upgrade ive done since upgrading my computers. 7870 is a good upgrade, been able to max all games at 1080p without a problem.
 
Only have a 350watt psu.

Didn't realize, that severely limits my options.
 
True, but you can probably get away with the 750ti as it doesn't use much power. Tons of people are selling them used on the forums as they were popular cards to mine with (due to the low power draw) so u can find a good deal. The difference will be night and day vs your current card.

The only thing that sucks is since you have an dell system you can't OC your processor which would give you a nice performance boost as well.
 
Yeah the 750ti would be perfect, seeing a few go for $100 shipped on the for sale and trade section recently, and a nice little used SSD for the boot drive would be a nice little upgrade.
 
If you can score an i7 that can fit in that rig on the cheap as well that would be another thing to consider...
 
If your PSU is that bad I'd definitely go SSD, its the feasable upgrade.. that or upgrade that PSU and videocard.
 
could be worth it to try to sell the whole rig to a friend and use that money to buy a 2500k rig. New CPU, MB, PSU and case. It would last a good many years with only upgrading GPU and SSD.
 
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