So I’ve had this thing for half a decade at this point. It was the first PC I ever got and I’ve been dealing with it being a PC which was cheap and not made for gaming. I’d like to see if there’s any recommendations I can add or upgrade to make it better rather than buying a entirely new PC

Here’s the specs

Acer Aspire TC-875

Intel® Core™ i5-10400 CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz

8.00 GB (7.89 GB usable)

Intel® UHD Graphics 630 (128 MB)

477 GB SSD

Id like to cram a GPU in there if possible but I suck at hardware related topics so I’m not sure if could, which one I would, etc

So any recommendations would be helpful thank you!

  • SethranKada@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    15 days ago

    First thing that comes to mind for me is the RAM, I have 16GB and my games are always crashing from lack of memory, so I can’t even imagine what it must be like for you.

    If you can, I’d upgrade to an i7 or an i9, but I’d leave off the GPU unless you prefer graphics-heavy games.

    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
      6·
      15 days ago

      I have 16GB and my games are always crashing from lack of memory

      Something sounds very wrong… games do not require 16GB or more of memory. Is this just the current state of windows?

      According to the Valve hardware survey, over 50% of machines have between 8GB and 16GB of RAM

      • chickenf622@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        15 days ago

        If there are some slots open I would say it’s worth adding another 8GB, but they should be at a minimum spec with their current RAM.

      • SethranKada@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

        I use Linux, but I believe it’s mostly because I tend to play games like rimworld, factorio, or Minecraft. All of which have very high RAM usage.

        • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
          2·
          14 days ago

          I must just be bad at Rimworld because I don’t think mine has high memory use. Or maybe you have way more mods than me. I think Minecraft is a solvable problem in the settings, I’ve only had memory capacity issues hosting servers but not on the client.