Upgrading a 10yo pc and spare parts build

[Maiscedo]

Budget (including currency): I don't know yet

Country: Brazil

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Cyberpunk 2077 (1080p 120hz medium or high), iracing (1080p

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):

So I my pc was a mid tier than 10y ago.

CPU: i5-4460

MB: Asus B-85M-E

GPU: Gigabyte GTX970-TwinTurbo

RAM: 16 GB

PSU: Corsair CX750 W

 

This pc doesn't suport W11, I'm planning to upgrade it in this year. I used a bottleneck calculator and it says that I need to upgrade my cpu first, but to do so, I have to change the mobo and ram as well. But I'm concern with the PSU, it's 10yo. Should I buy everything together or can I buy separated, in this last case, what should I prioritize?

 

For the GPU I'm planning a RX9060 but i don't know if it will be able to run Cyberpunk with the settings I want

 

And after that, I still don't know what to do with my pc after buying a new one. I thought doing a NAS for my home, a homelab with softwares and programs to "play" with science, such as weather forecast, AI, CFD, streaming pc, simple task pc with linux... I want some suggestions please.

[Millios]

first off dont trust bottleneck calcs they are what bulls leave behind after eating

 

Secondly I'd say just get a new everything (maybe re use teh PSU but its 10yo so up to you) as you dont have anything worth keeping or any upgrade path that will actually let you do what you want to do

 

After than you can turn your current PC into either a media machine or a nas/das with a couple of hard drives

[Amir F. Rad]

19 minutes ago, Maiscedo said:

Budget (including currency): I don't know yet

Country: Brazil

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Cyberpunk 2077 (1080p 120hz medium or high), iracing (1080p

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):

So I my pc was a mid tier than 10y ago.

CPU: i5-4460

MB: Asus B-85M-E

GPU: Gigabyte GTX970-TwinTurbo

RAM: 16 GB

PSU: Corsair CX750 W

 

This pc doesn't suport W11, I'm planning to upgrade it in this year. I used a bottleneck calculator and it says that I need to upgrade my cpu first, but to do so, I have to change the mobo and ram as well. But I'm concern with the PSU, it's 10yo. Should I buy everything together or can I buy separated, in this last case, what should I prioritize?

 

For the GPU I'm planning a RX9060 but i don't know if it will be able to run Cyberpunk with the settings I want

 

And after that, I still don't know what to do with my pc after buying a new one. I thought doing a NAS for my home, a homelab with softwares and programs to "play" with science, such as weather forecast, AI, CFD, streaming pc, simple task pc with linux... I want some suggestions please.

your cpu is too weak, i would go everything new and sell what ever you have, if you give a rough budget it would be really helpful, also because you live in brazil, look up a gpu, for example 5070 asus tuf and see how much it is in your local market on your local currency, then change that price to us dollar and compare it to what is the international price of that piece, you can see what percentage it goes up for you in your own county, then take your budget and take that percentage from your budget in your local currency and convert it to us dollar, and then use this budget to choose parts in sites like pc part picker, this way you can have a rough estimate of your budget in international markets, i do the same, because i live in iran and we have crazy tarifs on pc parts, i use the same method to have an estimate of what my buying power would be in international markets, if you need help on calculating just let me know

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Bottleneck calculators are complete utter bullshit so dont even consider those useless things

 

As for the pc is there anything it struggles to do? Regarding w11 its not even neccesary just have to bypass the arbitrary hardware restrictions with rufus if you dont get windows 11 iot ltsc instead and besides theres no real reason to swap over to w11 for now since w10 will continue to be supported by software years after eol and those security updates are more of a concern if you are a high profile/targettable person thats desirable to hack

 

Also give an estimate on the budget as solutions range from reusing that setup with an older microcode for allcore turbo or straight up overclocking if you swap a k cpu in to going for an all new upgrade with am5