Upgrading my Ancient PC

[zaac]

Budget (including currency): 400€

Country: Portugal

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Video Editing(AE),CS2,LOL,RD2,GOW5 and other AAA games

Monitor: 1080p 144hz

Other details: 

 

 

The ones that are "Purchased" are the ones that are in my current PC.

I have doubts regarding almost everything, should I get the R5 5600 or R7 5800X since its only 40€ more.

Should I get 16 GB or 32GB since its like 25€ more.

Is a A520M a better solution since I don't really need the 4 RAM slots. B550 is 40€ more than a A520M.

Should I keep the storage that I got or get that M.2 1TB SSD?

Basically what is the best case scenario spending +-400€.

 

[LagLord]

Can you share the pc partpicker url? It'll be easier to help you

[zaac]

10 minutes ago, LagLord said:

Can you share the pc partpicker url? It'll be easier to help you

here you go:
https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/tYnvz6

[Conza]

CPU - I think at this price, great choice, the only other thing around here which would have a performance improvement is a 7500f/7600 from aliexpress, it'll still be more and then you'll go to more expensive motherboards and ddr5 - long term I think that's worth it vs am4/ddr4 but it'll cost you more, locally it's not in budget

 

RAM - 32GB

 

MB - A520 would be fine, however, it lacks PCIe 4.0 on any of slots, so I'd pay extra for B550 just for that, besides it'll have better IO (I haven't looked up the specifics but it does)

 

Storage - Always go best GB/currency within budget.

 

So I would pick this MB, RAM and SSD based on your budget and your other parts
 

https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/LgkBsh

[Conza]

Ok just for fun I went to Aliexpress as someone from portugal, and I ended up building this, I think it's a viable option, the motherboard will be of a higher standard and last longer, the ram will have improvements in some applications and also last longer, but you're still up for +100 euro. - https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/bYngDZ

 

Or +50 Euro for a local 7600*, so it's +150 euro to go to AM5 realistically, which is 37.5% over budget. - https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/YVJ4RK

I think AM4 is the right choice in this example...

Edited September 29, 2024 by Conza
misspelled 7600 as 760

[zaac]

12 minutes ago, Conza said:

Ok just for fun I went to Aliexpress as someone from portugal, and I ended up building this, I think it's a viable option, the motherboard will be of a higher standard and last longer, the ram will have improvements in some applications and also last longer, but you're still up for +100 euro. - https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/bYngDZ

 

Or +50 Euro for a local 7600*, so it's +150 euro to go to AM5 realistically, which is 37.5% over budget. - https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/YVJ4RK

I think AM4 is the right choice in this example...

Probably will go with AM4 since the GPU that I owe is not the best ( not planning to buy another one yet ). I think I will stick with the r5 5600 due to it being more than enough for my GPU.
BTW that build didn´t seem bad at all if I had the budget, thanks for the option!

[Conza]

5 minutes ago, zaac said:

Probably will go with AM4 since the GPU that I owe is not the best ( not planning to buy another one yet ). I think I will stick with the r5 5600 due to it being more than enough for my GPU.
BTW that build didn´t seem bad at all if I had the budget, thanks for the option!

You're welcome, I'll explain some of my reasoning which I didn't do before.

 

The SSD has DRAM, on pcpartpicker I turn on M.2-2280, NVME, then I set the cache minimum to the 2nd lowest value (8MB at time of writing). Then I just order by Price/GB ascending and pick the first in the list EDIT: Within budget*. PCIe 3 vs 4 for the SSD I wouldn't worry much about, but dram'less' SSDs will drop off transfer speeds really quickly so you always want a cache.

 

Motherboard, it was the first B550 in the list that had been marked as with compatibility, you can spend more but do it for specific features, wifi for example is another 30 euro at time of writing (eg. Asus Prime B550M-A Wifi II), so that's an expensive add on, otherwise start at the bottom and work up to see what you're getting.

 

GL, and please share the final build