Queen Chrysalis

Even a 12600kf would be plenty for most stuff with thise GPUs and they’re dirt cheap right now. The advent of e-cores means productivity is pretty damn good on it too. Also, points for the microcenter bundle deal on it.

If you’re near a microcenter, while this may be more than you want, they’re still doing the 12600kf with a z790 wifi board and 16gb for $250. They also do $20 off any board and cpu, so their $120 5600 with a cheap open box board could be $150 on the right day. You just have to ask nicely at the register to do the combo with an open box board. I also found these on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/315311966776?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=dr8lziucroy&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=IO4zV1NhQTm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY https://www.ebay.com/itm/315311966776?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=dr8lziucroy&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=IO4zV1NhQTm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Worst comes to worst you could resell it for about what you paid.

Yeah, the mod is to the CPU, drawing a trace between a couple pins. You can use a pencil, or any other conductive material. There are a couple videos on it. Though, given where games are at and the 9xxx cores not being all that much faster than the 7xxx ones, unless a hyperthreaded quad core isn't gonna cut it, I'd probably just stick with a 7700k. People also want stupid money for 9900ks on ebay, and for the cost of one you could just get a 5600 and a cheap board, making this whole effort pointless. I'd stick with the cheapest option possible that'll get the job done, which would be a 7700 or 7700k.

I'd offer $50 at most. They can take it or leave it. The market is cold as fuck for that chip so i bet you'll get it. The chip ain't worth $50, but your system running modern games when it's struggling right now is worth it. You may find the 7700k/3080 combo more than suitable for your gaming needs, in which case you're good to go for the foreseeable future. The cores on the 7700k are still faster than current gen consoles, so it's very possible. Doubling your thread count will make games that seemed unplayable smooth, while the 3080 will let you run shit on ultra that you were running on medium before. I'm not sure what the state of skylake+++++ cross-compatibility is at the moment. I remember the pencil trick from when the covfefe lake came out, but I'm not sure where it's at right now. OP, If you're comfortable with a single stroke of soldering iron, liquid metal, or a good art pencil you can run an 8700, 8700k, 9700, 9700k, 9900 or 9900k on that board as well. But the 7700 or 7700k would be a lot cheaper, and would be sufficient for modern games.

Yeah they do. I bough a b450mac in July of 22 and it came with a zen 3 compatible BIOS that had been released in like May of 22. They didn’t make all of them in 2018 and just sit on them. They’ve been in production and usually come with the newest BIOS. Same for an A320 DS3H I bought in August of ‘19 being Zen 2 capable despite it being a 2017 board. I would cast absolutely insane doubt that a B450 DS3H sold in 2024 would have a pre-Zen 3 BIOS, as it’s among the most popular AM4 boards and people have been buying them for Zen 3 consistently for the last 2 s.

For home interior design I wouldn’t imagine you’d need much. What do other people who use this software usually use for work at your level? A used gaming PC might be able to handle your workload effortlessly . Something with a 1070 should be under $300.

Not correct since at least mid-2022. That’s one of the most popular AM4 boards. It’ll have a zen 3 BIOS.

Not gonna be a thing on facebook marketplace or craigslist, which is where a lot of complete PCs get sold because of size and fragility.

You could try for $300. People might appreciate it being put together and such. Do a clean windows install with a *fresh* windows key.

Ah, I see it now. Yeah that’s fine.

Which 600w PSU? The model matters.

What do you currently have? A lot of 2019ish CPUs are still more than capable of running with a new GPU at 1440p60.

Which GPU do you want? Unless you want a 5090 you can just get something now, it won’t be that much different. Otherwise you won’t really see much benefit from buying all if this now. Also, depending on your actual CPU needs, a 12600kf and a DDR4 board might bring your costs down a lot. It’s fast enough for almost any current GPU at 1440p and you could just get a 2nd kit of DDR4 to get you to 32GB.

Yeha this looks fine. I'd get a basic 32GB RAM kit for $15 more (SP gaming or such). The brand on basic RAM doesn;t matter, just the specs. That way you'd never have to upgrade, no need to match kits in the future. you may also want wifi and bluetooth, the intel ax200 is aa chip you can pop int that motherboard for like $22 for WiFi 6 and BT 5.2.

This should not be a new PC. Any old computer from the last decade will handle this easily and you'll spend $20.