Hardware upgrades on 12 year old stationary PC

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(2019-01-14 17:53)Swift Wrote:  But I think, a 9800 GTX should be more than enough for a game like LFS, but yeah as we said, if you want to play some better looking games, go for a GTX 5XX / Ti and you will have a lot of fun.

Not to forget, your new GPU will most likely need to eat a lot of power, so don't forget to upgrade your Power Supply, or it can cause serious issues. I'm lucky, because mine detected the lack of power and turned itself off, but in worse scenarios it can destroy your motherboard too by giving it too much power.

A cheap Power Supply I bought is a Chieftec (something) which has 450W and is more than enough for a GTX 550 Ti (seems like).

Man, that GTX550Ti is a right power hog considering the lack of processing power... My laptops external GPU setup has a GTX750Ti and it packs twice the punch for half the watts. "Cheap" is always relative of course but you can most likely get one for less than 50€ at this point.

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compa...i/16vs2815