JCsHands Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Work has been good and provided me with a MacBook Pro for the last few years, currently it's a 2012 Retina MacBook Pro. Because of this I have put off doing much to my old Desktop at home. I play some games on it, but for the most part it just sits there. I will be changing jobs and will have to turn in my laptop. I only have $300 to put into a computer at this time, working on paying off some debt, and I am wondering, do I upgrade or start a new build? This is my current setup: CPU: Core 2 Duo E7300 MOBO: MSI P43 Neo-F GPU : EVGA NVIDIA GTS 250 RAM: 6GBs DDR2 800 If I were to start a new build I would need to carry over my Graphics card, but I could pickup a low end i5 and 8GBs of RAM. When looking at the i5 is it worth going Haswell? I have read that Broadwell won't be compatible with current Haswell MOBOs. Again, this is used for light gaming. Mainly Sims 3 (with my 5 year old) LEGO games, some Skyrim and Civ 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperzxz Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Is your plan to turn it into a Mac? If not, you can just upgrade the HDD to an SSD and you'll instantly feel a system boost if you also upgrade to Win8.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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