6600 XT doesn't work on my (very) old rig, what should I buy now?

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Greetings community.

I bought an ASUS ROG 6600 XT card from Overlockers UK to put in my very old rig (from 2011), but it won't start up. After some googling I realise I need new hardware.

So I'm looking at replacing the motherboard, CPU and memory. In the past I've always used Intel, but if there's an advantage with going with Ryzen CPUs for the GPU I just got, so be it. I'm planning to purchase M.2 storage lateron.

So I'm kindly asking if you could point me in the right direction. AMD Ryzen or Intel?

If Ryzen, I was thinking this combo:

MB: TUF Gaming X570-PLUS
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X

Budget: lets say £750.

 

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budget?
you'll also need new RAM (and probably a cooler too)

I just realised, oh well, new memory it is, and cooler of course. Noted, thank you.

Budget: I'd say around 750 for now, but can stretch. I just want something that makes sense for the GPU I just bought.

 

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If your PSU is from 2011 you should add that to your purchase list.

Interesting, because of connectors? It's a 900W Antec one, and indeed from 2011.

 

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Is it a high current gamer? Should be fine for your gpu then.
Oh, i would go 12600k/B660 to fit in your budget.

Believe it or not, invoice was still in my inbox.

It says "Antec PowerSupply (PSU) High Current Gamer 900W - [HV]" so it looks like it, yes. I'll refrain from ordering a new one for now and try what I have first.

Thank you.

 

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Right, the order I placed just now:

Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus WiFi DDR4 X570 ATX ...... £225
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core 4.6GHz ...... £320
Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-32000C19 4000MHZ ...... £95
Arctic Freezer 34 eSports White CPU Cooler - 120mm ...... £30
WD Black SN850 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 ...... £130

So 800, which was 50 quid over the budget but then with a pretty fast gen4 SSD and a bit more bling motherboard, did some comparisons on asus.com and landed on the TUF Gaming one.

You can enable SAM and with a Ryzen CPU and RDNA2 card. I haven’t looked the difference in performance that much, but enabling allows for really decent performance boost in what I have seen. I really like the infinity cache system on AMD.

Ah yes, read about that here, we'll see, will definately try it out.

Anyways. thanks for all suggestions and input, it really helped. Hadn't I come here before ordering, I would've had a computer without a fan.

 

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not the best combination there, to be perfectly honest :/
by shopping around and smarter choice of components, could've saved £200

you don't need x570 and the b550 board i specced would've saved £125
4000mhz memory for ryzen is unnecessary - that's another £40 saved
the ryzen 5600x could've been bought for a lot cheaper if you'd shopped around

Not sure why I went for that memory kit.

However I chose the X570 board because when comparing at Asus website, I realised B550 had 6 SATA connections while X570 had 8. Over the years I've kept on adding storage to my 2011 machine, storing a lot of photos I take, so I'll max those 8 out and still have disconnected disks. I should really start to tidy that up and move it over to fewer and larger drives though.

You give valid points, I appreciate that, thank you.