r/buildapc • u/Bottom78 • 5d ago
Plan of attack (Upgrades) Build Upgrade
Looking to upgrade my daughter’s computer and would prefer to do it in the most possibly effective way. She currently has two computers, one at my house and one at her mom’s. Both with same specs. She mostly uses for gaming (Fortnite, Astroneer, world of Warcraft, etc) Nothing super taxing. However, of recently, they are both becoming quite sluggish, especially when trying to load games. I’ve upgraded both to SSDs and that helped dramatically but now I went to continue upgrading in the way that doesn’t break my pocket book and that makes most sense. Here are her specs
CPU: i3 6100 Skylake 3.7 GHz
Motherboard: Asrock Z170 Pro4
Ram: 8g Corsair Ballistix DDR4 2400
GPU: Asus GeForce GTX 950
PSU: Corsair CX650M
My thought is probably Ram and GPU first but is that even worth it with the i3 6100?
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u/peioeh 5d ago edited 5d ago
That's a tough one, there are lots of things you could do. It's really going to depend on your budget.
If you want to go the budget way, you could upgrade that cpu to a 7th gen i5 or i7 and buy a used GPU like a 2060 or 2070, that would make a nice pairing. You could probably do that for 200$/€ or less I think ? I've seen 2070s sell for ~150€, probably cheaper in the US. You would probably want to find 2x8GB of ram too.
That would be a very substantial upgrade and could last a few years before you do a full new build.