Upgrading 9 year old PC

Dooie_appel · December 30, 2020

Budget (including currency): 600 euro

Country: Netherlands

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: World of tanks and older strategy games like Total war and Medieval

Other details
Well, this is my first time using a forum and i hope some are able to help me out since i am not expierence at all with PC's hardware.

It is currently using the following hardware;

MB:   Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Hybrid CFX
CPU: AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-core Processor (it uses a big heat-sink and 1 fan pushing air tru it)
GPU: Geforce GTX 1660 (updated 2019)
RAM: Crosair venagace 2X4GB
SSD: Samsung 860 Evo 500GB (updated 2019)
HD:   ST31000524AS ATA 500G (the data of this drive was copied on the SSD, so not really needed)
AC: Antec 700W
CASE: Coolermaster (1 intake fan and 1 exhaust fan)
DVD-Blueray burners X2 (I do want to keep 1 of them for CD-roms (yea oldfashion))

I have upgraded last year my hard-drive to SSD and GPU from a Readon HD to GTX 1660.
The sales man from who i bought it did already informed me that the CPU will not catch up with the GPU so that is what they call a Bottleneck? so i wanted to upgrade the CPU and the MB including buffen the RAM up since its is toping out at 7GB in World of tanks, got sometimes lag drops as low as 20 FPS, normally runs smooth at 100+FPS on max settings.
Ive been looking around a bit and came up with the following upgrade parts witch will come at around 400,-
MB: ROG Strix B450-gaming
CPU: Ryzen 5
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2X8GB
Case ???
Liquid cooler ???

I have no clue on which case i need and which type of liquid cooler i should get.
I just try to get a clean looking pc since i have no experience with RBG lighting equipment so no need for fancy glass panels.
I hope some of the enthusiast pc builders can help me out with specifics and sugestions.
Max budget at around 600 euro.

Yours faithfully
Dooie_appel

(dream case would be like a nuclear power theme, clean, industrial with some lime green lights)

Radium_Angel · December 30, 2020

15 minutes ago, Dooie_appel said:

(dream case would be like a nuclear power theme, clean, industrial with some lime green lights)

I am unaware of any that can be had retail, that sounds like something that would have to be custom made.

Personally, I'd skip the liquid cooler, if you have little experience in building systems. Later, when you become more confident, you could look into it.

As to a case, that is a matter of personal preference, what you like, for example, may not be what I like but you will need an ATX case, because the motherboard you want is ATX in form factor.

Personally, I like this:

https://www.newegg.com/black-phanteks-eclipse-p400-atx-mid-tower/p/N82E16811854046

If you want more room, look at this:

https://www.newegg.com/black-phanteks-enthoo-pro-2-atx-full-tower/p/N82E16811854099?&quicklink=true