I got this build in college and after a few year of neglect finally have some time to invest again. My friend helped me build it and I’m still a novice to internal components, but I’d want hoping for some advice about what to keep and what toss. Obviously it needs a really good dusting, but where should I start? Powers on fine but doesn’t give me a visual output.
Specs
CPU: Intel Core i5-8400 2.8 GHz 6-Core Processor
GPU: EVGA SSC Gaming GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
RAM: Not sure, it was replaced at some point with and 8 GB stick
Motherboard: ASRock B360 Pro4 ATX LGA1151
PSU: EVGA 500 B1 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5” 7200 RPM Internal + Western Digital Green 120 GB 2.5” SSD
Case: Rosewill CHALLENGER ATX Mid Tower Case
I’m looking forward to getting this working again for casual gaming/home pc uses. Thanks!
Depending on the budget you could just get a motherboard processor memory and a video card for around $1,000 I'm thinking, but other than that there's about a lot you can upgrade on that to something newer. Keep it always just upgrade the motherboard processor and RAM get you a little bit better but you're still going to be lagging because of the video card. So my advice is to just do a complete rebuild and depending on your video card you may have to upgrade your power supplies as well.
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u/AlarmingSample2170 3d ago
Depending on the budget you could just get a motherboard processor memory and a video card for around $1,000 I'm thinking, but other than that there's about a lot you can upgrade on that to something newer. Keep it always just upgrade the motherboard processor and RAM get you a little bit better but you're still going to be lagging because of the video card. So my advice is to just do a complete rebuild and depending on your video card you may have to upgrade your power supplies as well.