New build or upgrade?

[Weezy]

I've had this build for 4 or 5 years now and works 'ok' for my needs but does seem to hang up a bit with heavy (multiple) streams, browsers and media players open. With my specs (see my signature line), are there really any meaningful upgrades I can do to make this a true 'beast'? Or might I be better of selling this unit and building something else with an Ultra 9 or Ryzen 9, 5070ti and 64 GB RAM which should sort out my issues?

 

I have an ok grasp on basics of PC's, but not enough to know what works with what and how they impact each for specific use cases, so any help is appreciated!

 

 

 

[CatTNT]

unfortunately the price of RAM has gone insane recently so getting a full upgrade is gonna be hard. Of course, upgrading to a new Ryzen 7/9 system with 32/64GB of DDDR5-6000 and a new GPU will help immensely but the DDR5 part of that is coming to be cost prohibitive. 

If you haven't regularly cleaned up your Windows install of extra junk and garbage programs, you could also be losing significant performance and snappiness due to that. If you don't have a huge budget for a major upgrade, I would first recommend to follow some guides on cleaning up your windows install, or just wiping it all (save your important files to another drive first) and reinstalling, but this time make sure to use something like Chris Titus's windows utilities to nuke programs like OneDrive, Copilot, other windows services that waste performance and nobody cares about. 

the easiest thing right now is to disable as many startup programs as possible, I see my friends have more than a dozen random BS programs when really nobody needs more than just a few (automatic) startup programs. 

[Weezy]

15 minutes ago, CatTNT said:

unfortunately the price of RAM has gone insane recently so getting a full upgrade is gonna be hard. Of course, upgrading to a new Ryzen 7/9 system with 32/64GB of DDDR5-6000 and a new GPU will help immensely but the DDR5 part of that is coming to be cost prohibitive. 

If you haven't regularly cleaned up your Windows install of extra junk and garbage programs, you could also be losing significant performance and snappiness due to that. If you don't have a huge budget for a major upgrade, I would first recommend to follow some guides on cleaning up your windows install, or just wiping it all (save your important files to another drive first) and reinstalling, but this time make sure to use something like Chris Titus's windows utilities to nuke programs like OneDrive, Copilot, other windows services that waste performance and nobody cares about. 

the easiest thing right now is to disable as many startup programs as possible, I see my friends have more than a dozen random BS programs when really nobody needs more than just a few (automatic) startup programs. 

I keep up relatively well on system hogs, but it has been a while since I've done it. Might not be a bad idea to reinstall Windows for a fresh start as well.

 

Appreciate the advice!

[Psittac]

I hate to say that I haven't kept up on tech enough to really give you good advice, though I've watched a lot of tech videos.  Rather I have built a new system every so often to stay over what is required for my use.  If you have kept up on software bloat I would say maybe upgrade your gpu first and see if that has any impact if even to the point that it's manageable.  SSD in my lacking opinion isn't the culprit, cpu.... ffs 8 core 16 thread should be plenty and ram is 32g.... a quick google search shows that it's operating at half the speed of what ddr5 would..... but I really don't think that's the problem.  Between a core upgrade and a gpu upgrade I would highly suggest the gpu upgrade.  One reason being that it is 100% transferrable to a new system.

 

*this system should be adequate at the least, these are good spec's.  If anything, again the gpu is a touch underwhelming for the system.

[GoldenWolf]

With the price of ram like it is I would say hold out on a upgrade or a new build