Upgrade in progress

[ensignx]

Budget (including currency): 250€

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly Lightroom, Photshop, very likely AI Tools like Synthesia for content cration, basic videoediting (openshot, CapCut), gaming (not top priority, no AAA Games)

Other details preowned PC: Aerocool Bolt Midi Tower (slightly damaged at Rear IO), Gigabyte B450M D3SH, AMD Athlon 3000G, 2x 8GB DDR4 3200Mhz, 1x M2 SSD Teamgroup(??) 512GB, 1x 3,5 HDD 1TB, PSU noname 400W

2 27" 1080p Monitors (1x ASUS VA279H, 1x Viewsonic VA270) shared with my Home at work PC

Already done: BIOS Update, CPU swapped for a Ryzen 7 5700G, added "some" RGB (waste of money at this point i know but isnt it cool looking?  )

 

 

Planned for the next months (likely in this order): 

 

1. swapping the SSD (really bad benchmark results) for a 1 TB one (Kioxia is about 55€)

2. Adding/swapping Ram to 32GB

3. New Case or proper GPU

4. Mainboard

5. Start all over again

 

Suggestions?

 

Especially for the GPU im unsure. I tend to a 3050 8GB...

 

[Mumintroll]

The "no name" PSU 400w sounds abit sketchy. Get a better one from a reputable brand and more powerful, and with the modern ATX 3.1 standard.

You'll probably need it for the GPU, if you're getting a beefier one.

 

For the nvme SSD I can recommend Kingston Fury Renegade. Using one myself and it works great.

 

Are you unhappy with the current case? It looks alright.

 

[jaslion]

1 hour ago, ensignx said:

swapping the SSD (really bad benchmark results) for a 1 TB one (Kioxia is about 55€)

Skip this it's fine swap that for not having xilence bomb in your pc it will kill it

 

1 hour ago, ensignx said:

2. Adding/swapping Ram to 32GB

Sure

1 hour ago, ensignx said:

New Case or proper GPU

Gpu obivously 

1 hour ago, ensignx said:

4. Mainboard

Why? It's genuinly fine for a 5700g.

 

1 hour ago, ensignx said:

5. Start all over again

Probably not a too bad idea

[ensignx]

On 7/18/2025 at 10:48 PM, Mumintroll said:

 

Are you unhappy with the current case? It looks alright.

 

 

Its very cheap, and more important was damged in transport at the rear IO. I would like something with a wooden touch like the Zalman P10 Namu as it would fit to my wooden desk. But its not a high priority ;)

[Tan3l6]

As recommended before - if upgrading, start with a decent PSU. And/or case...

If not a fire hazard, then still dangerous to other components.

[ensignx]

On 7/18/2025 at 11:19 PM, jaslion said:

 

Why? It's genuinly fine for a 5700g.

 

 

It is, and fits my needs for the moment. To be honest? The strongest reason would actually be argb support but maybe there is another solution to this. Useless, i know and thats the reason its last on the list. And maybey, wheni finally reach that point it´s also time for a new cpu and so on...

[ensignx]

2 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

As recommended before - if upgrading, start with a decent PSU. And/or case...

If not a fire hazard, then still dangerous to other components.

 

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