Budget Upgrade Build - Advice sought

dodger007 · May 21

Budget (including currency): 550-600GBP£

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Hogwarts Legacy, Atomfall, Tomb Raider Series, FFVII and the current remakes of it, Maybe some Forza and generally Home Admin Office 365 stuff

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): I Don't need a Case, PSU or other peripherals.

Hi, would anyone be willing to give opinions/advice on this as a proposed upgrade for an old 4th Gen intel build, as I'm now in a position to update and want something mid-way that is also upgradable:

PC Part Picker List

CPU: Intel Core i3-12100F 3.3 GHz Quad-Core Processor (£73.15 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard (£147.47 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (£29.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Blue SN580 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£48.99 @ SanDisk)
Video Card: MSI VENTUS 2X BLACK OC GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB Video Card (£248.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Total: £548.59
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-05-21 09:20 BST+0100

Why Intel? - Why not?! I currently have Intel I have nothing against AMD though

Why Nvidia? - I've traditionally had Nvidia and whilst I've nothing against AMD my limited understanding is that RT is becoming more of a thing and the 4060 does it better that current AMD alternatives - happy to be proven wrong though.

Storage will be supplemented by an existing 1TB SSD, Will probably be using WIN 10 until I can be bothered pulling the PIN for WIN11. I have sacrificed a better CPU in favour of GPU as I feel CPU upgrade will be easier/more achievable, using the stock cooler until I can afford better but in future would maybe like to go down the AIO route.

For info this is what it will be replacing:

CPU Intel Core i7 4790 @ 3.60GHz   42 °C
RAM    32GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
       Motherboard ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. B85M-E (SOCKET 1150)
       Graphics   4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (MSI)

Thanks for any advice/abuse in advance!

Dodg

Millios · May 21

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/yK3XNz

Slightly over your initial 12100f choice

Noticably if not significantly better with more ram, better CPU and better GPU

dodger007 · May 21

Can I please ask why the ARC GPU?

Aside from the negative press when ARC first arrived I've heard good things though I've yet to watch the recent 30 day challenge of LTT.

One thing that worries me about the ARC series is the criticism that the drivers still need work I will need to watch that video and do some research but thanks for the extra thought I will certainly consider the suggestion

Dodger