New PC

[Cuishor]

Hello, I recently started to save money for a new pc and besides the money I saved, I have a ga-h170-d3h unused mobo and I'm wondering, it is worth to go with kabylake i5 7400 or to spend some more money on a new am4 mobo with ryzen 5 1600/1500x. The thing is if I stick with intel, I could buy a good graphics card too but if I go with ryzen, I'll need to use my old video card (hd 7750). I will use my PC for programing and editing and some gaming (Skyrim, League of legends, CS GO). (My budget is around 600$ and where I live prices are like 15-20% more expensive than in US)

[rn8686]

Would be better here to get a Kaby i5, no point in buying a new motherboard just to use a older GPU and get worse performance overall. 

 

Edit: Could sell the motherboard, and you do need to remember to update BIOS first to use Kaby. 

[Silencerr86]

I'm a big fan of Ryzen, if you were building a completely new PC I'd recommend going that route since you could benefit from the extra cores. 

 

But since you're on a budget and already have a motherboard (it's not a bad one), you should probably go with Intel and upgrade your GPU. :-)

[Cuishor]

Wow, my first post and I get 2 answers within minutes. Thanks for help guys!

[Jurrunio]

What are your current system spec?

[Guest]

Just now, Cuishor said:

Wow, my first post and I get 2 answers within minutes. Thanks for help guys!

LTT forum is amazing

 

10 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

Would be better here to get a Kaby i5, no point in buying a new motherboard just to use a older GPU and get worse performance overall. 

 

Edit: Could sell the motherboard, and you do need to remember to update BIOS first to use Kaby. 

selling mobo could give you like $50, not worth it imo

[Cuishor]

Current Specs:

-AMD Athlon X2 5000 series

-Ga-790x- ds4

-4gb ddr2

-MSI Radeon HD 7750

-HDD 640gb 

-Seasonic S12-II 520W 80+ Bronze

-Kingston UV400 120Gb

-Deepcool Kendomen Ti

 

The components I want to buy:

-HDD WD 1Tb 7.2k rpm 64mb cache

-i5 7400

-16 gigs of 2133 RAM

-gigabyte  g1 gaming gtx 1060 3gb

 

[R3ep3r]

7 minutes ago, Cuishor said:

Current Specs:

-AMD Athlon X2 5000 series

-Ga-790x- ds4

-4gb ddr2

-MSI Radeon HD 7750

-HDD 640gb 

-Seasonic S12-II 520W 80+ Bronze

-Kingston UV400 120Gb

-Deepcool Kendomen Ti

 

The components I want to buy:

-HDD WD 1Tb 7.2k rpm 64mb cache

-i5 7400

-16 gigs of 2133 RAM

-gigabyte  g1 gaming gtx 1060 3gb

 

Do not forget about the ssd. It boosts your pc a lot.