Potential Upgrade from an (Kind of) Ancient PC

[TukangUsapEmenq]

A friend of mine potentially want to sell his PC components as he got something better from another friend of mine. 

 

Current system (bolds are to change):

 

Intel Xeon E3-1225 v2

ASRock B75M Motherboard
Hynix 2x8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz RAM

Cooler Master T20 CPU Cooler

MSI GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G

480 GB Pioneer APS-SL3 SATA SSD

1 TB Seagate 2.5" HDD

be quiet! System Power 9 500 W PSU

 

 

Potential system upgrade:

AMD Ryzen 5 2600

AsRock B450M-A Pro

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL 16GB 3200 MHz

Cooler Master T20 CPU Cooler (would reuse it if it's enough cooling), or my friend use the OEM AMD Stealth cooler already

MSI GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G

480 GB Pioneer APS-SL3 SATA SSD

1 TB Seagate 2.5" HDD

be quiet! System Power 9 500 W PSU

 

PC is using 1366x768 monitor.

For the use of me learning on basic use, few gaming occasions, Revit/SolidWorks, and more performance on my AutoCAD and my games, obviously.

Case got 2x120 + 2x80 front side fans, with one 80 fan as back exhaust and another 80 fan as an exhaust (mounted it on the side panel) to the left side. Like the illustration.

 

 

Welp, few questions:

1. For around US$110, secondhand of course, is it worth the upgrade? Or... Just pick the newer i3-12100/newer gen Ryzen and call it the day?
2. Does my current cooler would handle the R5 2600 fine when I overclock it? It handled my E3-1225 v2 miraculously damn fine that it never reach 70 C even on stress test. I sort-of want my CPU not to reach 80 deg, so... Could I get a better cooler like CM Hyper 212/similar?
3. For the sake of few apps that actually needs SSD nowadays (staring at you, Starfield), do the upgrade from SATA to NVME SSD for boot drive worth it?
4. Since I'm using an old-school style case (the PSU is topside, with the PSU intake pointing below and sucking air from CPU/GPU heat), does it really necessary to me to change the case?
5. With my fan setup as the drawing above, does the new upgrade would be a problem with airflow or temp?

Thanks in advance.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

11 minutes ago, TukangUsapEmenq said:

AMD Ryzen 5 2600

AsRock B450M-A Pro

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL 16GB 3200 MHz

All of these for 110$/1.6jt rp or something? If so thats pretty decent deal

 

If not then throw the rgb rams out since you can buy a 2x8 kit with oem samsung/hynix bare pcbs for 350-380rb ish and lazy overclock to 3200, not completely random ones ofc so decent stuff like m378a1g43eb1/db0 (samsung 4gbit e/d die), hma41gu6afr8n (hynix 4gbit afr), or hma81gu6djr8n (hynix 8gbit djr)

 

Ryzen 3100 would also be a better cpu due to the better singlecore, should also be able to run the rams at 3800 ish, and can overclock to 4.3-4.5g

[SorryBella]

10 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Ryzen 3100 would also be a better cpu due to the better singlecore

Idk, used 3600 is there at that same price range over at FB Marketplace. 

27 minutes ago, TukangUsapEmenq said:

Or... Just pick the newer i3-12100/newer gen Ryzen

if you can squeeze it in at that price range then be my guest, itll be equal to 3600. But in my experience itll balloon to 200$ sooner than later with actual good RAM kit on.

[TukangUsapEmenq]

On 10/28/2023 at 4:50 PM, Somerandomtechyboi said:

All of these for 110$/1.6jt rp or something? If so thats pretty decent deal

 

If not then throw the rgb rams out since you can buy a 2x8 kit with oem samsung/hynix bare pcbs for 350-380rb ish and lazy overclock to 3200, not completely random ones ofc so decent stuff like m378a1g43eb1/db0 (samsung 4gbit e/d die), hma41gu6afr8n (hynix 4gbit afr), or hma81gu6djr8n (hynix 8gbit djr)

 

Ryzen 3100 would also be a better cpu due to the better singlecore, should also be able to run the rams at 3800 ish, and can overclock to 4.3-4.5g

Welp, no luck on me seemingly, he already sold it to another one lucky boi.

 

Since my E3-1225 v2 seemingly already struggling to do things comfortably for me nowadays and damn it's kinda confusing to go for parts selections either, so... Check ur pm.