Please Rate My Current (very, Very Bad Setup) And Give Me Advice.

Hello there, my name is Adriousleroi.
I'm French, from Bordeaux, and I live in Japan since 2006.
Nice to meet you all.

This is my first message, but do not hesisate to make a fool of me.
I was born broken and lived a broken life, so I was never able buy decent parts.
I really enjoy online gaming and video editing (urbex in Japan), but I know nothing much about computers.

I made my own PC using information here and there, please have a look:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cJvqCL

For the last few years, I was working like a dog so I couldn't spend a lot of time on my computer, so some (all?) parts are like, really old.
Some games run decently, but Battle Royale games for instance are completely impossible to play, even if I put ALL the settings on low quality and high performance.
You could imagine the lag I get when running a few applications at the same time, a video editing software or games that ask for a lot of resources.

Could you rate, kindly or harshly, my setup?
Also, could you tell me which part I should change right away?
I would be very grateful if you had some tips like:
-I haven't overclocked or touched anything in the BIOS, do you have any configuration advice?
-Are there obvious tweak I should do to run my system/games/video editing faster?

I have a budget of 100 € every month, and I thought that changing the hard disk would be top priority. Like, a FireCuda or Baracuda I hear so much about.

Thanks in advance, I'm really looking forward reading you guys!

Adriousleroi

 

What is your eventual goal?

Your motherboard came out in 2015. So I would not recommend making too many upgrades to the system when the main board is already that old. Instead, if everything is working now, I would recommend saving your money until you can build up your budget for a whole new computer.

Fortunately, your current motherboard it is a good board and already supports DDR4. And when it comes to RAM, you already have 16GB and that is a really nice chunk of RAM.

What case do you have?

What power supply? Before making any hardware upgrades, you need to make sure the current power supply will support it.

If you are set on upgrading this system, replacing the hard drive with another hard drive, even a hybrid drive, would not make sense to me. Replacing the hard drive a SSD would be a better way to go. Not only will you see performance gains with most tasks, SSDs generate less heat and consume less power than hard drives.

You could also look at upgrading the CPU to an i5 from this list.

 

Thank you for your reply! That's very kind of you.

I checked my PSU, it's made from a Japanese (Chinese?) maker Hunt:key and it's called Kazane. It's a 450W (Max 550W) supply. (ATX12V) You can see some of the specs here: https://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page20301.htm (search for Kazane 450)

The case is a cheap one: Thermaltake Versa H26 https://pcpartpicker.com/product/8Z...red-glass-atx-mid-tower-case-ca-1j5-00m1wn-00

 

While your case may have been "inexpensive", and apparently is lacking removable washable air filters, it seems more than capable of support you through years of upgrades. It has lots of nice cooling options and support for USB 3.0.

While air filters are a must for me, they are not essential as long as you perform regular visual inspections (easy with windowed side panels) and cleaning as necessary to keep heat trapping dust from building up.

As far as that PSU, I can find no information on it other than what you provided. So I can not comment on the quality. However, 450W should be plenty to support an i5 CPU as long as you stick with one rated 65W or less. Just to illustrate, as seen here, your PSU has lots of wiggle room with the i5-7500. I even padded the results a bit by setting the CPU utilization to 100%, adding a Blu-Ray drive, and setting computer and gaming use to 16 hours per day and you still have 100W to spare.

Note you can edit that PSU calculator any way you want to determine your PSU needs. This is the only PSU calculator worth using.

 

Thank you so much for your reply, it helps a lot!