Upgrading my pc
 

Hello, My friends power outage broke. So He is giving away almost all of the computer parts for me (Motherboard, Cpu, Ram etc) . So I could upgrade my current pc

I Wondering if I will feel the diffrence

From old Amd athlon 7850 to Intel I 3 2120

from ddr2 rams to ddr3 rams.

Will I will the diffrence in performance like playing sh3 ?

You should notice a difference in both the cpu and the memory, but nothing "earth-shakingly" so. The CPU is almost 2 times as efficient, while the memory, depending upon the operation, might be quite a bit faster. You might also notice a differnce in your hard drive throughput, if the motherboard has a newer SATA interface than what you had. What video card do you have now, and is he including one in his parts?

One big thing to remember is that you will have to re-install Windows, if that's your OS, since it has separate instructions for AMD and Intel CPUs. If you have Linux, depending upon the flavor and how old it is, you might not have to do a re-install of it...

The Intel CPU will give you much better performance its faster, thermals much better and overall design is superior

The Ram upgrade is a fair step up but not as important in gaming performance

You need a Graphics card at least a the lower end of the Market. Performance may still be a little limited by the Aging Intel CPU Bottlenecking your System

Overall you should be good to go

Regards Simon

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Looks like double the speed. You'll notice a slight difference. Remarkable speed increase has to be x3 or more. But you'll notice it.

First I want to preface my statement with the following: I haven't done this on Win7 or newer, so things may have changed.


Many years ago, if some family friends' children ran across PCs set by the road as trash, or in a dumpster...
They would pick them up, simply because they were children, and without a job new parts simply were not going to happen anytime soon.

Some worked, some didn't.
If it booted great, if it did not, but the hard drive was good...
We would pull the drive, and see if it would boot into Windows.

After several years of testing the parts, and building some fair "junkyard" PCs, we came to the following conclusions:

Intel > AMD: Booted and ran, had to install drivers, but it was good to go.
AMD > Intel: Never worked, Win95/98/ME/2000/XP didn't matter.
Intel > AMD > Intel: After swapping the C: drive to the AMD and booting into the installed version of Windows, it would NOT boot if we put it back into the Intel system.

Depending on the OS (WIn7 and up), you may have to re-install Windows if you swap over to the Intel motherboard/CPU.
Also note, that -IF- your C: drive does boot on the Intel chip/board, then you may also have to go through the 'Windows Activation' process again.

Barracuda

So the upcoming pc has i think 630 or something but whats okay because I have 750 2 gb


thanks for the info guys

he is giving away everything , except the case and power supply

Another questions will motherboards are compatible with each other will psu support the newer, smaller motherboard? what about the fans?

ATX power supplies are all interchangeable. The only question is whether your PSU produces enough power to run your new configuration. You should be fine there.

The question isn't whether the motherboards are compatible with each other, it's whether Windows will run, download all the proper motherboard drivers and leave you with a functioning system.

If you set it up for automatic download of needed drivers, you will probably be okay, but be prepared for Windows Update to take quite a bit of time to find the drivers. Alternately, you could let Windows use the default drivers long enough so you can limp over to the motherboard manufacturer's website and download the drivers from there. The second is probably faster.

how to set up automatic updates?