Newish to upgrading pc's, what should I do next?

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Kadan

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Hey guys,

I have been upgrading my pc little by little and I am really enjoying it! But I don't know what to do next. I will list my pc with spec's and could you guys reccomend what I should upgrade next? Wanna build a beast pc bc I have recently got into Star Wars the Old Republic and want it to run as smoothly as possible.

Dell Insipron 570

Processor

AMD Athlon™ II X2 Processor 250 (3.0GHz, 1M, 2C)

Operating System

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English

Memory

4.0 GB

Hard Drive

500 GB

Video Card

AMD Radeon HD 6770 series

Sound Card

HT | OMEGA STRIKER 7.1 Channels PCI Interface

Power Supply

Corsair GS 600watt

Like I said I haven't done a whole lot bc I don't know exactly which direction to go next. I am really enjoying it tho, what would u guys recommend?
 
Much more than that and you will be throwing away money, the six cores are not going to be faster for games due to them not taking advantage of six threads, four will be fine, your gpu is quite good, so id say barring cpu, id up your ram to 8 gig or more, if you have 4 slots, id drop in a 8 gig kit for 12 gigs and call it settled. last other improvement you could make is a SSD for responsiveness, but that will require windows being reinstalled. drop in upgrades would be cpu and ram, and that would cost you about 160 bucks for both, if you want better cooling add a CM 212+ or evo, but that mobo i dont think offers any overclocking features so you might be stuck at stock, so a improved cooling solution may do you no good.
 
FuryRosewood said:
Much more than that and you will be throwing away money, the six cores are not going to be faster for games due to them not taking advantage of six threads, four will be fine, your gpu is quite good, so id say barring cpu, id up your ram to 8 gig or more, if you have 4 slots, id drop in a 8 gig kit for 12 gigs and call it settled. last other improvement you could make is a SSD for responsiveness, but that will require windows being reinstalled. drop in upgrades would be cpu and ram, and that would cost you about 160 bucks for both, if you want better cooling add a CM 212+ or evo, but that mobo i dont think offers any overclocking features so you might be stuck at stock, so a improved cooling solution may do you no good.
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for both? where can I find this 8 gig ram u speak of? gonna buy gonna buy cpu and ram but can u tell me which ram you would go with if u were me? I dont know much about this stuff sorry :/

ps, also how can I check to make sure this will work with my pc?
 
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Make sure the cpu is the same slot type as the one on the motherboard. If they are compatible, all you do is open the release lever and drop it into the mobo. Then yu reapply th quick release and bam your done. I agree with the SSD statement but you will need a mechanical hdd for l your programs, unless you have money to burn on a huge ass SSD
 
very easy. you just will need some thermal compound and some 91 percent alcohol. you should open the side panel and see four spring screws unscrew them slowly in a diagonal fashion. when the heatsink is released by the screws, give it a slight twist, and you will feel the thremal grease break free. pull lightly on the heatsink and it will come loose. when the cpu cooler is off, wipe off the residue on the cpu and cooler with a paper towel or equivalent with some 91 percent alcohol soaked lightly on it, dont need alot, just a little, work away at the two pieces till they are clean. when you have them cleaned, you will see a lever to the side of the cpu, pull it outwards and up, and it will unlatch the zif socket holding the pins on the cpu. then lightly grasp the cpu by the edges of the cpu itself, not the socket and lift it out, it should come out easily, if not, the socket is still locked. When the cpu is out, note the little triangle mark on the cpu socket and the cpu itself, on the cpu its gold, and on the socket it will just be a light triangular indent with a possible mark on the motherboard itself. just take the phenom, and drop it in, with respect to those marks and it should drop in easily, no force necessary. When its in, fully seated, drop the latch on the side of the cpu to lock it in place. Then place a small drop of thermal compound in the center of the cpu die, about a small pea sized amount will do, dont spread it around, and then take your cpu heatsink and drop it back on top lightly, twisting and pushing lightly to spread out the compound before screwing down the assembly, in the same way as it was removed, crossing tightening of the screws diagonally till they are snug, not overly tight, it does not require alot of force.

(forgot to mention the fan power connector but that is pretty straight forward)

With ram just be sure you have the notch lined up right, and may take some force, the dell motherboard sockets are kinda tight for ram, just be sure its lined up right and push down firmly till it snaps in place.

-sorry for the wordy explaination but i couldnt find a good explaination on the retention that the 570 used, so i had to make one up from scratch
 
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FuryRosewood said:
very easy. you just will need some thermal compound and some 91 percent alcohol. you should open the side panel and see four spring screws unscrew them slowly in a diagonal fashion. when the heatsink is released by the screws, give it a slight twist, and you will feel the thremal grease break free. pull lightly on the heatsink and it will come loose. when the cpu cooler is off, wipe off the residue on the cpu and cooler with a paper towel or equivalent with some 91 percent alcohol soaked lightly on it, dont need alot, just a little, work away at the two pieces till they are clean. when you have them cleaned, you will see a lever to the side of the cpu, pull it outwards and up, and it will unlatch the zif socket holding the pins on the cpu. then lightly grasp the cpu by the edges of the cpu itself, not the socket and lift it out, it should come out easily, if not, the socket is still locked. When the cpu is out, note the little triangle mark on the cpu socket and the cpu itself, on the cpu its gold, and on the socket it will just be a light triangular indent with a possible mark on the motherboard itself. just take the phenom, and drop it in, with respect to those marks and it should drop in easily, no force necessary. When its in, fully seated, drop the latch on the side of the cpu to lock it in place. Then place a small drop of thermal compound in the center of the cpu die, about a small pea sized amount will do, dont spread it around, and then take your cpu heatsink and drop it back on top lightly, twisting and pushing lightly to spread out the compound before screwing down the assembly, in the same way as it was removed, crossing tightening of the screws diagonally till they are snug, not overly tight, it does not require alot of force.

(forgot to mention the fan power connector but that is pretty straight forward)

With ram just be sure you have the notch lined up right, and may take some force, the dell motherboard sockets are kinda tight for ram, just be sure its lined up right and push down firmly till it snaps in place.

-sorry for the wordy explaination but i couldnt find a good explaination on the retention that the 570 used, so i had to make one up from scratch
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One guy metioned, make sure the cpu is compatable. Everything I have researched has seemed to be compatable... What do u think, am I good to go?
 
yes according to the net the cpu will work, just need to drop it in, apparently the x6 chips wont work, but its a quad not a six, so you are fine to go
 
FuryRosewood said:
yes according to the net the cpu will work, just need to drop it in, apparently the x6 chips wont work, but its a quad not a six, so you are fine to go
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Hey man so I was installing the CPU and go it in except for the fan... When I went to install the fan there is nothing to clip it on with? For example you know how there is a lever to lock the fan in place... Well there isn't anythig for it to grab onto... What do I do? I had to unscrew the last one out
 
You may have to put Dell's stock cooler back on. Can you post a pic of the cpu area so we can look at it?
 
Need an aftermarket heatsink to keep my CPU cool bc it's getting up to 71c and I have no idea where to start looking
 
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