Should I upgrade the graphics card or the CPU first?

>>57071938
cpu

dedicated gpus are for gaymer manchildren

>>57071938
Open a resource monitoring tool and draw a line, is your GPU being used or CPU?

That's your bottleneck

it's more likely to be your CPU. Pentium D can be upgraded to Core2Duo or even Core2Quad in some boards. Either of which will be a huge upgrade and really cheap.

Get 8GB of RAM if photoshop is a priority. DDR2 peaks at 800mhz so try for that.

The GPU is unlikely to be limiting you. 1GB vRAM isn't great but it's probably going to do.

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>>57071958
>>57071966
>>57072008
CPU appears to be unanimous
Thanks /g/!

The system is around 10 years old. 11 year old CPU and 6 year old GPU.

This thing is worth $50 max.

I'd suggest sell that system and get a cheap $50-100 prebuilt system from craigslist with i3 or i5 cpu and it will outperform this on both gpu and cpu intensive task.

Yeah, stick skylake in that sweet 775 socket

>>57071938
You should consider saving for a entirely new budget PC, its not worth spending money to upgrade any components when a single modern CPU with iGPU is faster than your config. (Intel HD 530 is significantly more powerful than your HD5450)

>>57072052
>>57072612
>>57072632
Hmm...
Heavily considering this

>>57071938
Put a gtx 1070 in it! Just for the lulz.
Then build a new pc.

>>57072052
This is the only right answer on this thread.

Sell your shitbox, get a better shitbox from craig with an i3 or i5 processor, then stick some form of video card which you can also buy used and call it a day.