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What exactly do you hope to upgrade.. most AIO are like laptops in the sense that they aren't really made to upgrade, except perhaps RAM chips, or a new HDD.

The GPU is what you would want to upgrade for gaming, and that, most likely is impossible due to it being an AIO machine and the 950 not being a particularly good desktop GPU
 
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Is it new enough where you could return it for a refund?

For gaming you could build something a hell of a lot better for $1600 ;)
 
beers said:
Is it new enough where you could return it for a refund?

For gaming you could build something a hell of a lot better for $1600 ;)
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Pretty much! I'm not sure why people buy AIO if they want gaming performance.

A high end AIO like MSI offers, for example, gets you gaming performance but it is just paying an insane premium that a custom desktop could do for way cheaper.

I'd agree, if you can return it, and build your own real gaming machine, that would really be the best bet...otherwise your essentially screwed!
 
In short, you can't do anything to improve the gaming capabilities of an all in one. The main upgrade that people do with computers to make them game ready is adding a better video card. Because your machine uses the integrated video on the CPU and has NO way to add additional video hardware, that is a dead end (as it is on all AIO machines). About all you can change inside the machine is the hard drive and the RAM. Look up some pictures in google of what those look like. Your RAM will either be SODIMM or DIMM (google both to see what they look like) and will be DDR3 or DDR4 if the computer is recent, or DDR2 if it is a few years old. Look at the stick of RAM itself for a PC2/PC3/PC4. 2 is ddr2, 3 is ddr3 and so on. Upgrading your RAM and hard drive will make zero gains towards being able to play games, but it will benefit your system in other ways, should you be the kind of user who would benefit from those benefits.

Long story short, you're screwed. Shouldn't have bought an AIO.
 
mistersprinkles said:
In short, you can't do anything to improve the gaming capabilities of an all in one. The main upgrade that people do with computers to make them game ready is adding a better video card. Because your machine uses the integrated video on the CPU and has NO way to add additional video hardware, that is a dead end (as it is on all AIO machines). About all you can change inside the machine is the hard drive and the RAM. Look up some pictures in google of what those look like. Your RAM will either be SODIMM or DIMM (google both to see what they look like) and will be DDR3 or DDR4 if the computer is recent, or DDR2 if it is a few years old. Look at the stick of RAM itself for a PC2/PC3/PC4. 2 is ddr2, 3 is ddr3 and so on. Upgrading your RAM and hard drive will make zero gains towards being able to play games, but it will benefit your system in other ways, should you be the kind of user who would benefit from those benefits.

Long story short, you're screwed. Shouldn't have bought an AIO.
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Basically what we already said without taking out a full page ad in the New York Times.. LoL
 
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