maromalo

I'm getting really bottlenecked with my current pc so I'm looking to upgrade the CPU. These are my current specs: CPU: Intel i5-7400 Motherboard: Gigabyte B250M-D3H RAM: x2 Ballistix Sport 8GB DDR4-2666 GPU: Nvidia GeForce 1660Ti MSI GAMING X 6G PSU: Corsair CX650M Storage: SATA Crucial MX500 and a SATA hard drive. To make a meaningful upgrade, besides the CPU, i'm going to have to upgrade my mobo and probably my ram. I've heard that a Ryzen 5 3600 is the most bang to the buck you can get but I'm also considering a 5600x to make it a bit more future-proof (also the price difference of those two where I live is just about 12% so it feels like a waste not to go with the newer one). I don't really have a budget, but that's because I'll be saving up for it, so I want to pay for something that's worth it. So what I'm asking is: 3600 or 5600x or other? Adequate mobo for the CPU Adequate ram for the CPU, 16gb As an extra, a case. I don't care about rgb.

Budget (including currency): Around the $1000 USD mark, with room for a bit more if it's needed. Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: I'm going to university soon and I need a laptop as a daily driver. I'm (hopefully) going to be studying computer science, and I'll be programming on it and such, so I need a decent CPU. I'll probably won't be using it for intense gaming, as I already have a dedicated desktop pc for that, so no need for an expensive GPU. I'll run Windows on it, so no Macs or Chromebooks. Other details: I'll appreciate if you gave me more than one option, I don't live in a first-world country and some laptops are pricier and harder to find than they would be in the US for example.

I have the same monitor. Make sure to put Response Time on Standard (in Menu > Game), otherwise it won't let you turn Freesync on.

Yeah, the Corsair CX650M is a good match, and it leaves extra watts if you want to upgrade something.

SSD then, and RAM later. Thanks!

I've had my PC for over a year and I want to make it faster overall, but I'm not sure what to upgrade next, the HDD (move everything into a SSD, and use my HDD for stuff i don't need to open often), the RAM (I play games like Rust which eat more RAM than Chrome, and I like having multiple programs open, so sometimes it's not enough) or even the CPU or Motherboard. My specs are in my signature.

Thanks, I'll get a large SSD then.

So, I have a 1TB HDD, and I want to change into an SDD. My question is: Is it that much of a difference to replace the HDD with an 1TB SDD than keeping the HDD and adding a small SDD for the OS (Windows 10)?

One of my friends saw one of those fake ads that pop up and say "your computer has viruses blah blah blah download this" and she was actually concerned about it, even after I told her it was fake. She ran an antivirus and after no results, she thought that "the virus was hiding". Also people think I'm a hacker because I changed the school's WiFi name to a funny one (of course, username and password were default).

Done.