10 year old computer....probably dieing

[Stan Dad]

Budget (including currency): $1500 max USD

Country: USA West Coast

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Steam (no fast multiplayer games), photo editing, web browsing

Other details:

 

I have a mouse/keyboard, good enough monitor, a pen display, speakers, cd/blu ray drive, 1660 Ti, and a 750W Platimax power supply (10 years old) that I believe I can use in the next computer (not sure about the power supply).  Also various hard drives i'll use again.  Don't need an OS (but I would like to wish for a Win10 that wouldn't blue screen of death on me 2x a month for no reason). I could probably salvage my 3 fans too, but I don't know about such things.

 

My windows 10 crappped out again on me this morning (boot files gone and no way to fix, so fresh install) and that made me realize that my computer is mostly 10 years old.  Not sure how much longer she's going to be with me.  I'm looking for a case big enough to upgrade parts as I need (don't need flashy), a motherboard and cpu that can handle new games (cyberpunk 2077 at least) as well as light photo editing.  At least 16 gb of ram (doubt my old ones are worth anything).  No RGB please, it's just a waste of electricity in my household.  At least 8 USB ports are needed (USB A and 3.0)  Air cooling please, don't know enough about water cooling and just seems like a bad idea around my kids. 

 

I've always had intel chips so I don't know anything about AMD.  Last time I did any research on motherboards and processors was 10 years ago.  I just need some guidance on where to start with the main core (motherboard/cpu/ram)

 

Thank you 

 

[Queen Chrysalis]

25 minutes ago, Stan Dad said:

Budget (including currency): $1500 max USD

Country: USA West Coast

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Steam (no fast multiplayer games), photo editing, web browsing

Other details:

 

I have a mouse/keyboard, good enough monitor, a pen display, speakers, cd/blu ray drive, 1660 Ti, and a 750W Platimax power supply (10 years old) that I believe I can use in the next computer (not sure about the power supply).  Also various hard drives i'll use again.  Don't need an OS (but I would like to wish for a Win10 that wouldn't blue screen of death on me 2x a month for no reason). I could probably salvage my 3 fans too, but I don't know about such things.

 

My windows 10 crappped out again on me this morning (boot files gone and no way to fix, so fresh install) and that made me realize that my computer is mostly 10 years old.  Not sure how much longer she's going to be with me.  I'm looking for a case big enough to upgrade parts as I need (don't need flashy), a motherboard and cpu that can handle new games (cyberpunk 2077 at least) as well as light photo editing.  At least 16 gb of ram (doubt my old ones are worth anything).  No RGB please, it's just a waste of electricity in my household.  At least 8 USB ports are needed (USB A and 3.0)  Air cooling please, don't know enough about water cooling and just seems like a bad idea around my kids. 

 

I've always had intel chips so I don't know anything about AMD.  Last time I did any research on motherboards and processors was 10 years ago.  I just need some guidance on where to start with the main core (motherboard/cpu/ram)

 

Thank you 

 

Computer chips don't really die progressively like that.  That's your car brain talking.  The chip either works or it doesn;t in 99% of cases, and there's plenty of ewaste from the 90s that still works withing a margin of error of how it did when it was new, software just got a little more demanding.  Storage devices do die, and that sounds like what your problem is.  Are you booting windows from an SSD or an HDD?  What specifically happened with it? 

 

Also, planning around cyberpunk is a losing battle because of how badly that game runs on anything.  If that's the primary goal, than I'd cede to it, but otherwise you're gonna have to spend a lot to get a little if that's the only really high-end thing you wanna do.

[Stan Dad]

I am booting from a SSD.  I have an old SSD (10 year old, where I just had to reinstall windows to and is VERY slow) and I have a newer one (maybe 3 years old) that I had windows on before but I was getting all the errors with windows updates and sometimes happened with no updates.  Like last night, no updates, shutdown just fine, woke up to no boot files, windows disk couldn't help.

 

Only reason I mentioned Cyberpunk is because that is, by far, the most demanding game I play on PC.  I used to do 3D modeling and animation, but I just don't have the time anymore.

 

My current pc is Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz, Asus Sabertooth x79 LGA2011, ram is DDR3-1866

 

I have found a few things so far that refuse to work with a cpu as old as mine (those things I can live without, it's just frustrating)

 

I'm perfectly ok with just buying a new SSD....I'm just wondering if all my windows issues have been due to my old components.

 

IF upgrading is my only salvation, I was thinking maybe the i5 12400

[Queen Chrysalis]

7 hours ago, Stan Dad said:

I am booting from a SSD.  I have an old SSD (10 year old, where I just had to reinstall windows to and is VERY slow) and I have a newer one (maybe 3 years old) that I had windows on before but I was getting all the errors with windows updates and sometimes happened with no updates.  Like last night, no updates, shutdown just fine, woke up to no boot files, windows disk couldn't help.

 

Only reason I mentioned Cyberpunk is because that is, by far, the most demanding game I play on PC.  I used to do 3D modeling and animation, but I just don't have the time anymore.

 

My current pc is Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz, Asus Sabertooth x79 LGA2011, ram is DDR3-1866

 

I have found a few things so far that refuse to work with a cpu as old as mine (those things I can live without, it's just frustrating)

 

I'm perfectly ok with just buying a new SSD....I'm just wondering if all my windows issues have been due to my old components.

 

IF upgrading is my only salvation, I was thinking maybe the i5 12400

I would think not, I got windows 11 running fine on an i3 3240 with rufus TPM Check skip.  Are these things refusing due to lack of secure boot and/or TPM?  If so, your motherboard may have virtual TPM that can be enabled in the BIOS/UEFI, or a header for a TPM module.