Hey guys, please review my upgrade considerations.
Goal: good bang for the buck upgrade. No need for high end. Just a cheap but good step forward. Does my choice make sense or do you think this little step is not worth it? I am a little flexible on the budget. Is there something more valuable in that range?
Duties:
- mostly workstation / office / many browser tabs / hobby programming (small projects) / a couple apps incl. electron apps running at the same time
- little gaming (grand strategy). So far the GPU and RAM are …fine, i guess. I will upgrade them some time in the future, to play KCD2
- no video editing, almost no 3d modeling, little virtualization, no Image processing
Current system:
- i5-7600K CPU
- MS-7A71 mainboard
- 16 GiB of RAM (slow 2133 MT/s)
- Radeon RX 480 Graphics
Low cost upgrade idea:
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6x 3.50GHz So.AM4 90€
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- there is a 5600X for 100€ but just 1% faster in benchmarks
- Gigabyte B550 Gaming X V2 AMD B550 So.AM4 Dual Channel DDR4 ATX Retail € 106
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- There are B550s for 10€ cheaper but this one supports my old DDR4-2133 RAMs and up to DDR4-3200
196€ for a good upgrade doesn’t sound too bad. I probably need a new cooler too because of the new socket. I could get faster RAMs but figured that i would probably not feel the difference. These give me upgrade options in the future but don’t cost much right now, since i hope to keep all other parts (PSU, midi tower, etc.). Is it correct, that i don’t need a new PSU since the power consumption does not increase (for now)? And does the old PSU cable fit the new mainboard?
What else do i need to consider?
Thank you :-)
that is very good news, thank you. I was actually ok with the kcd1 performance, had decent fps at least outside of towns. If kcd2 is even better, than i should do just fine. Thanks guys!