Upgrade advice

[ATiRubyfan]

Good morning.

May I have some assistance plase?

I have an elderly family friend ( in her 60s ) who wants her PC upgraded.
I last built her one 11 years with an i5 3330s.

These are the specs that I have come up with for a new PC for her. Please advise.

HCS Hellcracks PC case £37
650W Corsair CX £50
Gigabyte B850 Eagle WIFI £150
Ryzen 7 9800X3D £400
Peerless assassin £26
32GB DDR5 Crucial RAM £79
1TB 990 Pro £93

Total - £835

If I swap for the i5 14600K & ASUS Z790-AYW WiFi motherboard, I can save about £120. The plan is also to use integrated graphics.

 

[arc@css]

What will your friend be using the PC for?

A 9800X3D is a very powerful/fast processor (just saying).

 

[freddie64]

The 9800X3D is supposed to be the very best CPU for gaming so will be wasted using just integrated graphics.

How about this? (have also swapped the NVME to a cheaper one)

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Six Core 5.40GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-02677) = £188.99
• 1 x Crucial T500 1TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-01089) = £77.99

Total: £270.97 (includes delivery: £3.99)​

 

[mickyflinn]

AM5 8600g has much better integrated graphics but just for general use any integrated graphics will do .

Here's a matx build

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 8600G Six Core 4.3GHz (Socket AM5) APU with Radeon 760M Graphics (SKU: PRO-AMD-01797) = £179.99
• 1 x Asrock B850M-X WiFi R2.0 (Socket AM5) DDR5 mATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASR-05290) = £124.99
• 1 x TeamGroup Vulcan 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FLBD532G5600HC36BDC01) (SKU: MY-0BB-TG) = £86.99
• 1 x Team Group Z44A7 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-TMG-02623) = £59.99
• 1 x Kolink Stronghold M Micro-ATX Case - Black Window (SKU: CA-068-KK) = £44.98
• 1 x Thermalright Assassin X 120 R Digital Black CPU Air Cooler (SKU: COO-TLR-04203) = £14.99
• 1 x MSI MAG A650BN UK PSU 650W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (SKU: POW-MSI-03345) = £49.99

Total: £573.91 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

 

[ATiRubyfan]

What will your friend be using the PC for?

A 9800X3D is a very powerful/fast processor (just saying).

Just web browsing and light Microsoft Office usage. Absolutely no gaming!

Am I right not to go the Intel route?

 

[jigger]

The current build is probably still more than fine for the use case, but for a few hundred quid you could get something decent from Minisforum that will pull very little power and save a ton of space.

 

[hornetstinger]

Just web browsing and light Microsoft Office usage. Absolutely no gaming!

Am I right not to go the Intel route?

You obviously need a sixteen CPU x 9995WX with 500TB on on die memory, and a hundred trillion googleplex TB of storage.

 

[hornetstinger]

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[Tetras]

Just web browsing and light Microsoft Office usage. Absolutely no gaming!

Am I right not to go the Intel route?

The X3D is not worth it for this usage, the non-X3D CPUs are fine.

Intel: it depends on the price, but £120 sounds way too small a saving for that CPU.

 

[hornetstinger]

would be fine with this and it has IGP

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-six-core-3.5ghz-socket-am5-apu-with-radeon-740m-graphic-pro-amd-01798.html