Upgrading My PC

[Stephen Adams]

Budget (including currency): £250 (In the ball park)

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Minecraft, Light Video Editing & Recording

Other details: I currently own a pre-built Acer Aspire TC-885, with a Intel Core i5-9400, 8GB of DDR4 Ram, 1TB SSD. It is currently barely able to complete my work loads listed above so I wondered if anyone could recommend a graphics card and suitable power supply which I could purchase to improve performance, together costing around £250. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You - Stephen

 

[filpo]

4 minutes ago, Stephen Adams said:

Budget (including currency): £250 (In the ball park)

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Minecraft, Light Video Editing & Recording

Other details: I currently own a pre-built Acer Aspire TC-885, with a Intel Core i5-9400, 8GB of DDR4 Ram, 1TB SSD. It is currently barely able to complete my work loads listed above so I wondered if anyone could recommend a graphics card and suitable power supply which I could purchase to improve performance, together costing around £250. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You - Stephen

 

I would start by getting 16 gigs of 3200mhz ram. Then a 5500 and a b550 a pro and your off to the races. As well as a tower cooler while your at it 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/dqHL6r

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£88.00 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Assassin King SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  (£24.00 @ Computer Orbit) 
Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£107.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: ADATA XPG GAMMIX D45 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£33.49 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £253.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-06-11 09:55 BST+0100

[Stephen Adams]

I already have some new 16GB 3200mhz RAM ordered, I was assuming I would re-use my old CPU - would buying the Ryzen 5 5500 improve my performance that much? I assumed that a graphics card would be better as I am currently relying on integrated graphics and if I was to buy the new CPU that would still be the case?

[filpo]

2 minutes ago, Stephen Adams said:

I already have some new 16GB 3200mhz RAM ordered, I was assuming I would re-use my old CPU - would buying the Ryzen 5 5500 improve my performance that much? I assumed that a graphics card would be better as I am currently relying on dedicated graphics and if I was to buy the new CPU that would still be the case?

if you want to do that then I would spend just a bit more for an rx 6700 XFX Speedster SWFT 309 Radeon RX 6700 10 GB Video Card (RX-67XLKWFDV) - PCPartPicker as it has 10 gigs of vram and is essentially an rx 7600 but with more vram