AMD 3600 Upgrade

[ED209]

Hello All,

As title says, I have a PC I wish to do an upgrade on and I cannot decide on what to get. I will be getting him a AMD 9070XT next week and budget below is for CPU\RAM\Motherboard.

The below system was bult in 2018

Purchase Timeframe:

August 2025

Budget:

£700

Usage:

Gaming at 1440P, games like Jurassic World Evolution 1/2/3 (3rd one comes out October 21st) modded Minecraft (This keeps within the 32GB ram he currently has) Factorio, Rim World, Helldivers 2, Division 2 (And 3 when it comes out)

Preferences:

None

Current Hardware:

LG 27" 27GP850P-B 2560x1440 Nano IPS 165hz 1ms Display (keeping this)

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B3200C16) (X2 to make 32GB)​

Gigabyte GA-AB350M-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard
AMD 3600 CPU
Nvidia 2070S (Being replaced with a 9070XT)
Be Quite Power 11 650W Gold PSU (Moving this over)

be quiet! Pure Rock 2 Chrome air cooler (moving over)​

Samsung 970 1TB NVME drive (Moving over)

Peripherals:

Already has the keyboard\mouse\Windows licenses etc

Special Needs/Requirements (inc Wi-Fi):

Wifi is not a requirement, he does have a PCIE 1 already as his current board does not have built in wifi so not really a requirement on the new 1

 

[Tetras]

I have left room for a PSU, just to be safe if the current PSU doesn't play nicely with the new card.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D Six Core 5.30GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-04829) = £269.99
• 1 x Asus ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6JX-AS) = £199.99
• 1 x Crucial Pro 48GB (2x24GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C48 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-CRU-01087) = £124.99
• 1 x Phanteks AMP GH 850W 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply Modular - Black (SKU: POW-PHK-02519) = £104.99

Total: £699.96 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

 

[ED209]

I have left room for a PSU, just to be safe if the current PSU doesn't play nicely with the new card.

I was thinking the same thing.

Cheers for putting that together. If the PSU is ok is it worth leaving it as it is or would it be worth changing any parts?

 

[Tetras]

If the PSU is ok is it worth leaving it as it is or would it be worth changing any parts?

The extra £100 would get you a 7800X3D instead.

By the way, is the case large enough for full size ATX? I noticed the current board is micro.

 

[ED209]

The extra £100 would get you a 7800X3D instead.

By the way, is the case large enough for full size ATX? I noticed the current board is micro.

That's a good point, I didn't even notice as its been so long since its been built and then just left alone lol.

ATX case with a Micro ATX board, case in question is this 1, OCUK used to sell it but no longer do - https://www.raijintek.com/en/products_detail.php?ProductID=13

 

[Tetras]

ATX case with a Micro ATX board, case in question is this 1, OCUK used to sell it but no longer do - https://www.raijintek.com/en/products_detail.php?ProductID=13

Ahh yeah, that looks fine for ATX. You could go M-ATX instead, though if getting a board without wifi would need to be careful that there's enough room between a free PCIE slot and the graphics card.