5 years later, I'm looking to upgrade

[JuggarJones]

Hey,

So nearly 5 years ago I bought my PC with gaming in mind and it is definitely getting old now I'd say. It has an AMD fx6300, GTX 960 and a Asus M5A78L-M LX microATX mobo, all powered by a 500W PSU.

These I still enjoy gaming, still at it with CSGO and other games like pubg and DayZ arma 2 mod, but having started uni a while back I'm now using CAD software like ANSYS and solidedge.

What do you recommend I do in terms of getting a new CPU (maybe atx/m-atx mobo and ram too??) with a budget of say £140ish for the CPU? Is the market right now even good with the whole spike in bitcoin? I've looked at the Ryzen 5 1600, but I'm a loss!

Cheeeers

 

[JuggarJones]

Thanks all for the responses!

So after seeing those suggested components, I really did not anticipate RAM to be so expensive! Although I do get that ill have to change that and the mobo. Could I just get a single stick of RAM to half that cost, or 2x4GB, or is that not recommended?

Roughly around the £300 mark is probably my budget for the three and I'm not to keen on buying a new graphics card but if it's really worth it I could splash out. Although would I need more than 500W PSU to run it all?

I do more gaming than CAD right now, and the CAD I will be doing for the rest of my degree shouldn't be too complex so I can imagine the i5 8400 would be more suited towards my needs