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I had built my first custom PC back in July, and I admit I was excited. Got all the parts (plus my old HDD and peripherals), put it together, and after a total of 18 hours, that includes troubleshooting boot problems, it was finished and ran fine. I reinstalled my copy of Skyrim and Dust: An Elysian Tail to do some performance tests. They were... a lot worse than I expected. Only ten more frames in Skyrim (still had play low settings), and I think worse FPS in Dust than with my old 256MB GPU. This new one is 2GB. Should've done more research before purchasing the parts, as I got a DDR3 GPU and the CPU cost more than it. My initial budget was only $400, but I'm looking into upgrading the GPU, but not spend more $250-300 on a replacement. Preferably one with GDDR5 memory and 4GB or more. I'd also be willing to upgrade the PSU, which is currently 500W. Can anyone give me a few pointers? (Only one PCIe x16) Here's the list of parts, I can list the individual links if needed. (This machine was meant to be for modern games, I had in mind a GeForce GTX 750 Ti, but I'm open to suggestions)
MrMii-CustomPC - Saved Part Lists - PCPartPicker
Last edited by MrMii Win 7; 30 Aug 2015 at 16:45. Reason: Added the GPU I was considering