how long my pc will last

[veltix]

I owned a hp pavilion hp p6608d. Intel i5 650, hd 5540 gpu, hd 500gb, psu 300 watts. I soon wanna change my psu to 500watts or 600watts. Getting the gtx 960. Will be playing med-high setting not to ultra (or extra). Smooth gameplay. Is there any cards equivalent to gtx 960 or can support i5 650?
Dunnoe can last 3yrs or 4yrs or play upcoming games in 3yrs/4yrs times.
Games that i want to play mgsvp and gz. Bf3 and 4.

Need some enlightenment. .

 

[cmdrdredd]

You can get any GPU you want. A R9 380 or 390, a GTX 960 or 970/980. They will all work. The limiting factor is your CPU speed but it's not too bad, just on the low end of the clock speed by today's standards. I couldn't tell you if anything you buy today will still be viable for gaming 3 or 4 years from now. That depends on how willing you are to reduce detail settings to keep the frame rate up or if you are willing to run the game at a lower frame rate while keeping the details high.

 

[Deders]

See if you can get yourself a cheap i5-750 or 760 or even 860/870 for gaming. It will make difference. I was only able to keep up with demanding games on my old i5 by overclocking to 3800MHz.

Now games that used to near 100% usage on all 4 cores give better performance whilst only using 2 of my skylake cores.

 

[tweakboy]

Go for 600w to have stability.

 

[Blitzvogel]

The GPU is the biggest bottleneck right now, so change it first (and your PSU accordingly). CPU upgrade can come later.

 

[boozzer]

I owned a hp pavilion hp p6608d. Intel i5 650, hd 5540 gpu, hd 500gb, psu 300 watts. I soon wanna change my psu to 500watts or 600watts. Getting the gtx 960. Will be playing med-high setting not to ultra (or extra). Smooth gameplay. Is there any cards equivalent to gtx 960 or can support i5 650?
Dunnoe can last 3yrs or 4yrs or play upcoming games in 3yrs/4yrs times.
Games that i want to play mgsvp and gz. Bf3 and 4.

Need some enlightenment. .

check this sub reddit regularly. https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales 750 watt gold rate psu regularly go on sale for 60$ and 8gb ddr3 ram is now 40$. 500gb ssd is about 150$. and plenty of other stuff. good luck.

 

[tweakboy]

Yes I agree nusna ...gl