Upgrade suggestions

[RSguideMaker]

Budget (including currency): £500ish

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Modern gaming, Streaming, YouTube

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

Okay folks, I have a build which I built approx 6 years ago, and haven't upgraded since. It still works perfectly well, just not as well as it used to with the new titles constatly coming out (with their increased demands!)

 

Case: Be Quiet! Pure Base 500

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+

CPU: AMD FX-6100

CPU Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo

RAM: 8GB Crucial Dual Channel DDR3-1600

GPU: XFX Radeon HD 7850

Storage: Palit 120gb SATA SSD

Storage 2: Western Digital Blue 1TB 7200rpm

Storage 3: Toshiba P300 1TB 7200rpm

PSU: AeroCool 750W 80+ Bronze Semi-Modular

 

Obviously it's a tight budget, so any advice on the best way to upgrade atm, whether to stage it by getting a better GPU first, then upgrade the cpu down the line (because that will require a new montherboard and DDR4 RAM instead).

 

I leave this in your capable hands.

 

Edit: Although it's using a Micro-ATX board at the moment, the case does support Full ATX should that work out a more viable route to go down.

[boggy77]

what psu do you have?

[Manjit73]

Ram DDR4-3600 16gb min

[MiinD]

I would get a new gpu like the rx570 and bigger faster ram

[MiinD]

Just now, Manjit73 said:

Ram DDR4-3600 16gb min

I dont think he need 3600 speed he'll be fine with 3200-3600

[boggy77]

if you don't need to change your psu, keep your case, cpu cooler and storage and get this

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	£155.50 @ AWD-IT
Motherboard	MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	£73.48 @ Amazon UK
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	£69.98 @ Amazon UK
Video Card	Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB OC Video Card	£219.98 @ Technextday
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£518.94
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-06 17:25 BST+0100

 

[boggy77]

1 minute ago, Manjit73 said:

Ram DDR4-3600 16gb min

 

1 minute ago, MiinD said:

bigger faster ram

 

Just now, MiinD said:

I dont think he need 3600 speed he'll be fine with 3200-3600

you do realize the amd cpu he has is not compatible with ddr4 ram, right?

[Manjit73]

I forgot about it

[MiinD]

1 minute ago, boggy77 said:

 

 

you do realize the amd cpu he has is not compatible with ddr4 ram, right?

oh didnt realize

[RSguideMaker]

3 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

what psu do you have?

Knew I was missing something. Updated to have PSU in there.

[boggy77]

2 minutes ago, RSguideMaker said:

Knew I was missing something. Updated to have PSU in there.

not a great psu, if you can spare an extra 65£ at some point, get a corsair txm550

[RSguideMaker]

33 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

not a great psu, if you can spare an extra 65£ at some point, get a corsair txm550

Would you advise doing the PSU before or after the other upgrades?

 

My thought process was that although it’s fairly cheap, the one that’s in there is at least 80+ certified.

[boggy77]

i would say get mobo, ram, cpu and psu and then when you have the budget, get the gpu.