Upgrade or sell your PC?

Question

Computers

There is a PC of 2013, specifications: Proc
: Intel core i3 2120 sandy bridge 2011
Vidyuha: Geforce GT630 2Gb
RAM: 4Gb DDR3
Motherboard: I don’t know the model, but Asus LGA 1155
PSU for 400 watts
Hdd 512GB
I will go this year for a college programmer, I have three options: upgrade a PC, build a new one and sell it, or sell this PC and buy a laptop. Does it make sense to upgrade?

Answer 1

I also have a car of 2013 assembly, but it will be replaced, because grading it is like trying to give artificial respiration to a drowned man. Now it's about like a sooooo runny office computer, just a budget-non-budget one.
You don't need a vidyukha for programming, you can take it with the built-in. Memory from 16, ssd for the system.
However, everything, as always, rests on the money. If everything is very tight with grandmas - well, you can grade it too - memory up to 16, ssd, look for percentages on collapses.

Answer 2

Depends on the budget.
You can change the percentage to xeon with Aliexpress, add 16gb of memory and buy an SSD. All together will cost around 10-15tr. (memory 5-6tr, 2tr percent, the rest is SSD).
For training - go.

Answer 3

It makes no sense to upgrade. at the moment this is the maximum office PC ...

Answer 4

Depends on upgrade requirements.
Prots - could be changed to Core i7 2700 (Sandy Bridge) or Core i7 3770 (Ivy Bridge), if the motherboard supports Ivy Bridge (theoretically it should, practically - you need to look). But these are still quite old processors, which can now only be found with hands.
Memory - you can add up to 8-16 GB. But again, it's DDR3. By modern standards - money to throw away, then buy DDR4 or DDR5 anyway.
As already said, adding an SSD will contribute to performance growth. But here you need to look at the capabilities of the motherboard - is there SATA (most likely not M2), what version. You may have to put the SSD in PCIe, and this, most likely, will not allow you to make it bootable.
GT630 is sad. Although with video cards now, in principle, sad. Finding something more or less suitable for sane money is unrealistic, then it’s easier to upgrade the entire computer to a processor with a good built-in.
That is, if there is a question of a budget upgrade - you can buy DDR3 memory, an SSD, and look for an i7 processor - it will turn out to extend the life of this hardware. For programming, let's say, a completely suitable machine will come out. For games, alas. However, with games there and now everything is a little less than nothing.
Or build a new computer from scratch (leave the old HDD as an option). In this case, I would suggest looking towards the Ryzen 5000 with a powerful built-in (not to take a discrete video card, because it is insanely expensive).

Answer 5

If you meet the budget completely, then the
SSD for the system and the main programs is 120gig - from 1200 rubles on alik to
finish the memory up to 8,12,16
read very carefully about the motherboard and the stone. For example, my old mother keeps 32, but an early revision of the processor can only work with chips that have 8 mikruhs on one side of the die. Barely found two plates of 4 from acquaintances
. There is no point in upgrading the rest.

Answer 6

Upgrade is a flexible concept. What's the budget? What do you need in the end - what performance? Some will change the vidyuhi and call it an upgrade.
In your case, if you want a normal PC, then you need to change everything, because put a better percentage (taking into account the socket, which limits the generation of the processor), performance will rest on RAM and video.
Change vidyuhu, you need to change the PSU. If you want speed, you need to buy an SSD. And there, maybe the case needs to be changed, the cooler ... In short ...
It will stretch one after the other. Personally, I don't see the point in upgrading this build. My advice: sell it all together, as is, and buy server hardware on aliexpress.
Yes, it is used, yes - this is a risk, but then there will be performance many times higher. And there is a high chance that everything will be fine. I advise for a reason, because one friend ordered several processors and a vidyuhu. The second friend ordered 7 pieces, and memory and several motherboards, experimented, then sold. He ordered the hell out of iron, everything worked. Recently assembled a second computer for streaming. I myself ordered the memory on Ali, the Chinese, the cheapest one - it works and runs better than my branded super fancy one with radiators, which I took at one time for decent money. Aliexpress rules.
A friend also ordered a percent (if anything, then all the ordered processors are Xeon), and recently she ordered an assembly for herself on Ali: mother + percent + memory). Everything arrived whole, everything works, although I was initially skeptical about these assemblies. But it's okay, she's happy.
If you don’t want to, how does she read tons of material about which mother is better, what percentage is chasing which mother, which memory is suitable, which is not, which brand of mother is better, driver, not driver, what’s with the bios of this mother, what’s with the boost , how to unlock the boost, how to reflash the BIOS, what are the problems and nuances, like how it is - take a ready-made version, and you don’t need to fill your head with an extra ton of information and read countless comments and watch dozens of reviews on hardware.
Its build is faster than my i7 4770k PC. I myself plan to switch to Xeon, and sell my PC.
By the way, these assemblies are about that and go (I considered the prices separately for components in the assembly). It is stated that before sending they are tested (but this is not accurate) for performance.
If you sell yours (I don’t know what the price is, well, maybe for 10-15k - no idea), order an assembly from Ali, you will only have to buy a 600 watt PSU, a case (although it can lie on the table anyway. I have no time everything was lying on the table, and a friend now temporarily has a computer without a case, on the table) and vidyuhi - this is the most unpleasant thing in this story, because of the prices for vidyuhi. But if you are not going to play games, then this is not such a problem. Well, you still have to buy a cooler.
I think she ordered thishttps://a.aliexpress.com/_AASODT . went to 11500 with a promo code.
I think that this option is better than upgrading your computer

Answer 7

If I were you, I would sell / give away and buy a laptop. I see no reason to upgrade this hardware.

Answer 8

RAM: 4Gb DDR3

Definitely sell

Answer 9

If you do not set a goal to play games, then the i7 3770 stone, 16 oz and ssd may well be enough for you for another five years - the old processors were very sensible. Then you can transfer the SSD to a new PC, as you save it, a stone with memory .. if you are studying to be a programmer and it suits you, sooner or later you want a mini-server for your home laboratory, such hardware will be able to cope with this task for years to come.
If you look from this side and do not listen to gamers talking about "low fps" and "gta will not work", this hardware may well help you survive the crisis until you save up on a PC. We live in a wonderful time when one computer can easily last for at least ten years if you are not a gamer.

Answer 10

For 10k on Avito, it will quickly leave. )