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Will 500W suffice for an SSD, an HDD and a DVD?

Pretty much the same specs as the Ryzen 5 1600, apart from the double threading that one has. But then again, the price difference is just 5 dollars or so between the two atm. Intel is better at gaming, correct?

What?! How does that work?

How about software? Does Intel have anything I need to be careful about? And what type of board is available for OC with the Intel socket that fits it? (and btw what socket is that exactly)

See... That's a big risk and I haven't done that before. I don't know exactly what my system will do when I reinstall, my build of win10 pro is a cracked one and I'm using Microsoft Toolkit to keep it an other features unlocked. I honestly would love to buy the damn thing anew, but if I can save myself some 170 dollars that Windows 10 Pro costs here, I'll have to do so. Any ideas as to how I can safely do what you propose?

I can just get another HDD (I have 2 externals so that works) and back-up everything in there, right?

Well here's the deal. The lowest budget I can get is the one I'll take. BUT. If the extra money is for something noticeably superior to a lower-end solution, then I'll gladly take that. First off, I live in Greece and this country has a reputation for pushing the prices of things all the way up to +80 - 100%. That being said, I have also looked at a neat alternative to the GPU listed above, which is the RX550 2GB. Cheaper where I live, but I don't know about the performance. Now, about the mobo. The thing is, I don't really want to OC anything. If I can keep such a PC fully operational with minimal wear of the components for a couple more years, I will do it. And btw, based on Linus' Tech Tips vid on RAM speeds, I'd say a 2400MHz is just right for me, both financially and performance-wise. So... what I'm saying is that I want out-of-the-box performance that is great. A minimum of 30fps on any game I run on it. No less than that, plus some power for photo editing. I'm not a content creator, I don't do streaming, but I love the price points of AMD's Ryzen lineup and have trusted AMD for a really long time. My current PC is dying after 10 years of serious tweaking by a friend, gaming all day for months, heat waves, upgrades, recoveries and all that good stuff. Price point? A 200$ CPU is all I can afford, I'm afraid. In Greece, a Ryzen 5 1600 goes for about 172 euros, so about 212$ in the US.

I get a lot of errors and even more BSODs for about 2 months now. It's an old PC, I'll list it below. My problem is this: IT CRASHES EVERY DAY MULTIPLE TIMES. It is getting unusable at this rate, my family and I have both sensitive data in there and many good reasons to use it daily. I've tried taking almost everything (except for the motherboard) apart and piecing it all back together, manually checking for any driver that needs updating, run Windows Defender and a lot of tests and repairs (like Memtest 64, C: drive repairs, etc) several times, tweaked the startup/boot settings anjd even taken it to a PC technician who somehow damaged my motherboard, killed my sound and practically stole 100$ from me for a couple of new memory sticks. I need help bcause I can't find anyone reliable around my parts to help with diagnosing my PC. The specs for it are the following: ASRock Extreme4 motherboard, AMD FX-4100m CPU, Asus Radeon HD6450 GPU, 2x Kingston HyperX Blu 1333MHz Dual Channel kit + 2x Kingston 1333MHz Dual Channel kit RAM, Mtech 450W PSU (I know...). Thank you if you read this and please help, I'm getting desperate.

I am looking to get a new PC soon. I need it to be comfortable with mid- to high-end gaming (at least medium settings in games like War Thunder and Fallout 4), but ALSO be competent at photo editing (e.g. Adobe Photoshop Express). Also I want to pair it with a Gigabyte A320M-52H rev.1.0 motherboard, a Geforce GTX 1050 2GB GPU, a stick of 8GB DDR4 RAM (is Mushkin OK for that?) and a EVGA 600W PSU. My main question is about the processor, but I would love to hear your opinions on my choice of components as well. Thanks a bunch in advance!