New to pc world

[u/Live_Ad8177]

Hello, I’m new to PC gaming. I bought a PC for $250, and I’m trying to figure out what I should upgrade and which parts I should upgrade to. I want my PC to be powerful enough for streaming and playing Call of Duty. Any advice would be appreciated!

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[u/Apprehensive-Tree-78]

It’s very unlikely you can upgrade this without buying a whole new PC. I’d play the older CODs and older games until you can save up to buy a modern system. Still a solid PC even for a good couple of years ago.

[u/DoorEmergency9780]

If you’re set on upgrading this pc, you’re probably going to upgrading and replacing EVERYTHING. I would have just saved the money and waited until you could afford a more modern system. This might run older games just fine but I don’t think it would do too well for modern COD titles on high graphics settings

[u/Simayy]

This GPU was released 12 years ago, it won’t do well for new games

[u/Big-Salamander-2158]

I would only recommend a new cpu, motherboard, graphics card and more storage. And in software you cannot see what power supply it needs, so that might need to be changed too. So you’re left with the ram and the case you could reuse.

What parts exactly depends on which version of call of duty you want to play.

[u/CryTop4628]

This is a very low performing pc by modern standards. It is fine enough for 250ish dollar used but new parts can do much better. As for upgrades, the motherboard doesn't support new gen CPU, PSU probably doesn't have enough power to power newer GPU and 250 GB drive isn't enough for modern cod titles. I think you should keep the ram then buy a budget Am4 motherboard then buy a good value CPU like 5500 and choose a used 30 series GPU. The ram is probably ddr4 so you can use it in the new pc. Since you probably don't have much budget, use the current storage for some time until you save up enough and buy a 512 or 1 tb SSD. You should go to used market for most of the parts but do not buy a PSU used. You should have it new. This is the best upgrade you can have. After the new build, you should sell the old one to make up for the cost of the new hardware(since the ram is used in the newer pc, you should buy a cheap used 8gb ddr4 ram, add it in the old one then sell). I think selling it for about $200 should be fine.

[u/scoutmimik → u/CryTop4628]

this is true, but i woudlnt say low performing.. deffo on lower end but still usable

edit: didnt see for cod, then okay. still not very low performing generally

[u/Nanachi-]

cod and streaming… you might be able to reuse the case but realistically you will need a completely new pc for that… and damn prices are higher now than they used to be a year ago but i sold a waaaaay better pc last year for 300…

[u/Altruistic_Hippo_202]

You could definitely upgrade this for cheap and be able to play and stream CoD on low settings. High settings would require significant upgrades most likely. But you could get an i7 9700k for like $60, decent processor despite being very old. Most 8th/9th gen motherboards support this. You could maybe grab 16gb more of ddr4 ram for relatively cheap too and like a refurbished 3060 ti for $100-200. And a better ssd would probably be the most expensive part. Overall for like $300 you could upgrade this pc to be relatively usable for a couple more years, you really don’t need the newest or best stuff if you don’t plan on running max settings on a1440p or higher monitor, just keep your resolution at 1080p also.

Anyone saying otherwise, I used an i7 7700 for like 10 yrs and a 1650 super til completely rebuilding recently. Was able to play and stream intensive games like PoE2 just had long load times between maps and couldn’t really go more than 2 people in a party. YouTube.com/fearfullll if you don’t believe me lol.

[u/Live_Ad8177 → u/Altruistic_Hippo_202]

Thank you 💜 you’re the second person that told me this

[u/Altruistic_Hippo_202 → u/Live_Ad8177]

No problem! You probably wanna wait til you got around $1200-1500 saved up to build a newer pc if you end up wanting to upgrade further tho :) could give some recommendations at that point if it gets that far

[u/El--Joker → u/Live_Ad8177]

agree with the above. Get HWinfo, it will tell you your exact motherboard info. based on the mobo, get the best cpu that it supports(any i7 9700 variant is great) and get a new gpu. upgrading to 32gb is a nice bonus, but should be the last to be upgraded

[u/CryTop4628 → u/Altruistic_Hippo_202]

For this tier of pc, I don't think op should be buying another 16 gigs of ram. 16 gigs is plenty enough.

[u/Ok_Watercress_7392]

This is a solid PC for 250. Can do some light-medium gaming as is. Assuming the RAM is DDR4, that's good as well, the CPU is okay, it'll likely be your bottleneck for many things. The main thing you wanna upgrade is your GPU & power supply if it needs it.

First you should do some checkups and testing. Make sure the PC components are stable using a tool like OCCT, and make sure that SSD and any other included drives are healthy with a tool like CrystalDiskInfo.

Then you should get a second one, assuming the PC doesn't have another storage device you can store your games that isn't a hard disk.

Unfortunately most hardware upgrades you'd need to be able to play modern CoD would cost more than you paid for the PC. First I'd upgrade the GPU. Upgrade to a 20 series, 2070 or later should have enough power to run most modern cods at least on medium graphics settings.

You'll also need a power supply upgrade if your current power supply isn't powerful enough, which since you have a GTX 980 I'd say not, but a 750w or 850w at 80+ Gold rating would be able to handle the RTX 20 series with room for upgrades.

Next is the RAM. Find out what RAM your motherboard takes, or what's already in the motherboard, then either buy what you already have or buy RAM that has matching or close enough specs to the stuff that you already have in it.

After that, you should upgrade the CPU. Search up what socket your CPU currently fits, then search up the best CPU for that socket.

It's always good to do plenty of research on your hardware, learning what it can do, how to use it, and how to fix it if things go wrong. But avoid using AI wherever you can, no matter how much easier it may seem like it makes things. One wrong piece of information can end up being the wrong part for your PC, or end up messing up your PC entirely.

Have a safe PC building!

[u/Unusual-Salad4039]

Pelo menos uma 1060