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Xaerael
Aug 25, 2010

Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

GPU upgrade didn't drag my performance out of the naff FPS issues, so I'm gearing up for a bigger upgrade. Just a couple of questions, though...

I'm considering one of the brand new i5s (I really like intel, and I'm not interested in switching to AMD) that are getting good reviews, will I need a new case to accommodate the appropriate mobo? Mine's an ATX from about 5-6 years ago.

What's the "sensible" memory speed and size?

Again, a 5-6 year old unit, am I likely to need to upgrade my PSU? (it's a 500w unit, iirc)

Any other advice would be great!

As before, this will be primarily for gaming, but with some light occasional Adobe work.

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Xaerael
Aug 25, 2010

Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

Thanks for the answers!

I'll be updating the PSU, seems sensible. I just have a thing about replacing things that don't need replacing (tech waste). It took until driver support being canned in Windows 10 for me to give up on my old sound card!

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