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PC Upgrade Help

Apr 6, 2018 10:10PM PDT

hello people. I hope you can help me with my stuff. So a little background, im a begginer when it comes to computer gaming. Anyways, I have an old computer that I want to upgrade with budget considerations. If I can't get the parts right now, I can just wait till theres like a sale or something. What i want is like a recommendation or something with it. I have a Lenovo Thinkstation S20, and this is the full specs: https://support.lenovo.com/ca/en/solutions/pd005642 . The only thing that are different is that, it has 4GB of GT 730 and 12GB of RAM.
Here are the upgrades I would want to do:
-Change the motherboard so it can house newer computer components
-PSU
-CASE(Windowed)(Black)
-Better Cooling System
-GPU
-RAM
I hope you can help me with this. If theres any tips and recommendations that you can add, im all ears. Thank you.

Note: Moderator edited to fix broken link.

Post was last edited on April 7, 2018 7:17 AM PDT

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Your link is busted
Apr 6, 2018 10:58PM PDT
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Re: upgrade
Apr 7, 2018 1:14AM PDT

If you change all, it's much easier (and probably cheaper) to buy a new PC.

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Usually a do over.
Apr 7, 2018 7:20AM PDT

If you want to play games and have 8GB RAM you fit some Nvidia 1050 Ti and don't do anything else.

If you want to change the motherboard then you are in too deep and should start a new PC.
Example builds are at https://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace/wiki/builds