Help making my PC good for gaming....

[Ganoncrotch]

dreamcast210 said:

Ganoncrotch said:

As seen as you are going for a pretty much full overhaul you should really consider changing the i3 to an i5, that said removing the CPU is a big of a bigger job than just sliding in a graphics card so if you are very green to the PC innards scene you should probably do without it for now and see how you get on with the i3.

If you haven't done so already you should just check to make sure that your version of win10 is the 64bit before even considering changing from the 4gb of RAM,

if that says 32bit on your machine you aren't going to be able to use more than 4gb of system ram (the graphics card memory doesn't effect this) Also keep in mind that you are currently sharing some of the system ram to be used as graphics memory with the onboard system, when you add a standalone graphics card your bios (is most likely) going to be set to no longer share this memory out and use the graphics cards memory instead, so you will actually get a small boost of system RAM from inserting a graphics card into this PC.

It is 64-bit. Thanks for that info. Learning this stuff is quite fun. :0

Yeah, it really doesn't get much better than when you have it all done and closed back up and it works well :)

One thing which can help that happen btw is one of these guys http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Anti-Static-Wrist-Strap-Wristband-Computer-Repair-Prevention-ESD-Discharge-Band-/152101813276?hash=item2369f97c1c:g:u28AAOSwDV1XRCLd you click the biting part of it onto something which is earthed (a metal part of the back of your monitor while it's plugged in) and you should massively lower your chances of causing any ESD damage to the PC components, ya know that little spark which happens between 2 people touching sometimes? if you happen to have been marching about a carpet or rubbing balloons under your arms you can get that going off when you touch your motherboard, does slightly more damage to sensitive electronics than a spark noise though!

That's the zoomed in damage of it on a PCB but yeah, I'll be honest if you just grab the back of the PC case while it's still plugged into the wall before you get to work (and avoid balloon rubbing) you should be mostly fine working away without one of those straps, they're just a precaution but still it's worth keeping in mind if you happen to have an afro or love balloons!