Advice Needed

[Zeorth]

Hi guys!

 

So as I just built a new computer I'm giving away my old one to my younger brother for his birthday. He's been wanting a gaming PC to get into the PCMasterRace. I want to make sure that the PC I'm giving him is going to last at least 3ish years playing new games on decent settings. What are the things that would need to be upgraded first and to what?

 

My old PC has these specs:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($164.80 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49 CFM CPU Cooler  ($89.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero (Wi-Fi) ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($249.99 @ B&H) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($79.99 @ Best Buy) 
Storage: Corsair MP510 480 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($179.78 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($89.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB ROG STRIX Video Card 
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 275R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($93.50 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($199.98 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1148.02
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-02 12:27 EDT-0400

 

Thank you in advance for all the help! I'll be here to answer any questions you may have.

[Rybo]

Everything there looks fine.  It doesn't look like the build is that old, but you generally will benefit from replacing old PSUs once their warranties expire -- aside from water cooling, your PSU is the one thing that can wreck everything if it messes up. That's not to say that it's guaranteed to fail after its warranty expires, by the way, nor does it mean that a failure will fry your other components.  

Beyond that, you could arguably get some lift from upgrading to a 3rd gen Ryzen. 

 

RAM clock speed also has an impact on your system.  Depending on the motherboard, you should have a lot of headroom to upgrade.  (Here's a demo of the impact RAM has on FPS: 

 

But honestly, I wouldn't do anything until your games start to have problems you want to solve.  The system should acquit itself just fine, provided you're not trying to run 4k at max settings.  

[You_found_dom]

1 hour ago, Rybo said:

Everything there looks fine.  It doesn't look like the build is that old, but you generally will benefit from replacing old PSUs once their warranties expire -- aside from water cooling, your PSU is the one thing that can wreck everything if it messes up. That's not to say that it's guaranteed to fail after its warranty expires, by the way, nor does it mean that a failure will fry your other components.  

Beyond that, you could arguably get some lift from upgrading to a 3rd gen Ryzen. 

 

RAM clock speed also has an impact on your system.  Depending on the motherboard, you should have a lot of headroom to upgrade.  (Here's a demo of the impact RAM has on FPS: 

 

But honestly, I wouldn't do anything until your games start to have problems you want to solve.  The system should acquit itself just fine, provided you're not trying to run 4k at max settings.  

The psu is fine, and ram can be overclocked. I’d rather have overclockeable 2666 ram with low cl instead of cl19 3600

[SavageNeo]

Upgrade to ryzen 3600/3700x.

 

Mayby get some addiotional fans if you need more airflow? Anyway ryzen 5 2600 is still pretty good and your system is pretty good.

Overclock the ram.

 

mayby get better psu? your psu is decent(ish). if you have any budget left after upgrading just get some another psu.

 

get something atleast from tier B+ for your build: