u/cysco_the_weirdo

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Is there even an upgrade path from this?

This is my dad's old PC that he barely used anymore, I borrowed it for post-graduate studies since my laptop died on December last year.

I need to know if it's even possible to upgrade further from this, I have all PCIe x1 slots occupied—NVMe to PCIe x1 slot adapter as my boot drive on the top, and a small 2.4ghz WiFi card at the bottom.

I plan to use it for a bit of gaming alongside my studies, I mainly play Source Engine (GMod and TF2) and Unity games (BR5HD and BR6, among others).

PC Hardware Specs:

- Intel i3-2120

- Inno3D Nvidia GT 430 2gb (OC'd to 820mhz Core clock and 620mhz Memory clock)

- 8gb 1333mhz Team Group Elite Silver RAM.

- 256 NVMe SSD boot drive connected via PCIe x1

- 1TB WD Blue HDD

- Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2 Rev. 1.2 Motherboard (non-UEFI)

P.S. I'm using Clover v4961 to boot into my NVMe drive, I didn't flash my BIOS and haven't made any BIOS-level tweaks yet.

u/cysco_the_weirdo — 4 days ago