My desktop PC, which has served me well for about 8 years, is grinding to a halt. Installing Win 10 on it seems to have been the final nail in the coffin, it's become close to unusable.
I bought this PC from ComputerLounge under the premise that I could progressively upgrade it (the justification to my better half); I've upgraded a couple of key components but now I'm trying to determine whether I can "upgrade" what I now have.
I certainly have some components worth holding onto. I figure I should be able to buy a motherboard/CPU?RAM bundle... I *used* to be quite PC-savvy, but haven't followed much in the way of PC tech trends lately, so don't know a Haswell from a Devil's Canyon...
Current Rig:
- Lian Li PC-K& case, with 620W PSU
- Asus M4N78
- AMD Athlon 7750 Dual Core processor
- 4GB RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX650Ti (added a couple of years ago)
- Samsung 128GB SSD HD
- Old WD HDD - probably on its last legs.
Could I please have some recommendations for how to proceed. I figure I should be able to retain my Case, GFX card, & SSD in the short to mid term.
I need to be quite budget-conscious to be able to convince my better half again that this is all worthwhile :) Most of you will be seeing the CPU etc above and thinking it's a Neanderthal system that is less powerful than my mobile phone!
I don't do a lot of gaming on my PC; but do a lot of multitasking, some Lightroom processing, plenty of Chrome tabs, etc. I don't need the latest-and-greatest but of course would like something that should keep me going for at least another 5 or 6 years!
I would love any recommendations as to how I should proceed - thanks!