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Hey adv, I just turned 19 today and got some birthday money from friends and family.
I decided that I want to use that money to update my computer.
I have an 2011 HP Pavillion model p7-1254, and I don't know much about computers and what to update or upgrade; how to update or upgrade; or if there's certain parts that only my motherboard can use.
I use my computer to listen to music, work with photoshop and play video games.
I recently bought Overwatch and when I play, my computer doesn't seem to want to process the graphics right nor does it want to play smoothly without latency issues.
It's also very difficult when I'm resizing a digital painting in Photoshop without having it lag and and having me wait for a minute in order to get one brush stroke.
What should I do? Do I need to get better parts and add on to my computer, do I simply get a new computer?
I'm not so sure how I want to execute this since I'm very oblivious to how different motherboards, processors, ram, and so on, go together with other parts.
How should I go to making my performance better without raging that my computer is buggy or isn't working?
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If you use PS and game you want decent to good CPU and GPU. A lot of prebuilts are difficult to upgrade and the companies make them that way on purpose.
How much do you have to spend? Youc an build a whole new one thatll play most games for probably as little as $5-600. After that price to performance starts to degrade.
Check out the guides people have done on pcpartpicker.com
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>>17687212
Also the table on logicalincrements too
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>>17687212
Oh, Damn.
Right now I have about $250 of gift money.
Should I save up and wait until I have enough to afford something reasonable that can last?
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>>17687226
Yeah but with that you can afford a GPU so check if you can stuff something in your pentium although I doubt it honestly.
AMD put out probably one of the best price to performance GPUs on the market recently called the RX 480 and it's about that price.
Plan for $200 at least on the CPU and don't skimp on the PSU or you could fuck up your computer. I recommend intel CPU, EVGA PSU and msi/sapphire GPU. Don't get a reference card, just compare warranties and choose based on that and the reviews of failure rates.
Saving would be better though. After all parts including monitor and peripherals I spent $1200 on my computer and it's a beast with an overclocked 4690k and r9 390. Don't believe the flagship GPU hype it gets expensive fast.
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>>17687237
Thank you anon, this has been very helpful.
I really underestimated this whole situation, thank you for giving me a better understanding.
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>>17687255
Yeah no problem.
There's a lot of stuff out there about benchmarks and reviews on youtube. It can get kinda overwhelming but I remember one of my favorite hobbies was getting everything together exactly the way I wanted it in my new comp until it was just right.
It can actually be really fun.
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