Current PC 10 years old time for upgrade? budget under £500?

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Hello,

My current pc is very old, however it's been pretty good for a while but it feels like it will die soon haha, even tho my pc is old, it cost a lot back then, so will a low budget be a good enough upgrade? I guess it would be but I've not looked at anything for years.
If required for the budget I'm happy to go for a lower graphics card and then just buy a better one months/year later if need.

Current spec
Intel Core i7-5820K @ 4125MHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5P
Ram: 16GB DDR4 3000MHz
SSD: 512GB NVMe PCI-E M.2 SSD
GPU: Zotac GeForce GTX 980Ti AMP Extreme Edition 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply Cooler

I have 2 screens (use one for gaming and the other for maybe having a YouTube vid playing or something, got keyboard etc just the main PC required with a new case as i will use my old pc as a spare if my new one ever breaks.

I mostly play rust and I'm fed up with really slow load in times etc, however I will play other games if and when, would be nice to have no issues if I wanted to stream on twitch etc.

Thanks for any help given and I have no issues if my budget is not good enough, I can always save up more

Thanks
Pete

 

[pastymuncher]

A budget of £500 isn't going to get you much these days as a gpu alone can cost more than that now. What resolution are your screens? You can probably reuse your psu but as for the rest I suppose the best you can do would be to hunt around for a second hand pc based around something like a Nvidia RTX 2070/2080 normal or super with a Ryzen 3000 series/Intel 10*** series cpu and at least 16Gb of decent memory. I doubt if you could find anything newer for that budget. If you want new and game at anything over 1080p then you are going to have to roughly double your budget.

 

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A budget of £500 isn't going to get you much these days as a gpu alone can cost more than that now. What resolution are your screens? You can probably reuse your psu but as for the rest I suppose the best you can do would be to hunt around for a second hand pc based around something like a Nvidia RTX 2070/2080 normal or super with a Ryzen 3000 series/Intel 10*** series cpu and at least 16Gb of decent memory. I doubt if you could find anything newer for that budget. If you want new and game at anything over 1080p then you are going to have to roughly double your budget.

Thanks for the reply, ya i'll either look at maybe a credit option or save up more. I was hoping for a better outcome but i been out of knowledge of parts etc for a long time haha. I thought i might have to drop at least 1k, however small hope i didn't have to, anyway i guess my PC has done me well so far.

 

[dfour]

This is the best I could come up with with you re-using your ram, storage, psu and case.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Gigabyte B550 Gaming X V2 (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-594-GI) = £104.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Six Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3D2-AM) = £124.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 WindForce 2X OC 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1G8-GI) = £289.99

Total: £519.97 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

The ryzen 5 5600 is roughly 50% faster than your old i5 and the 4060 is about 50% faster than your 980ti. As you dont play to modern games it shoud be fine but as Pastymuncher said you will get much better gains if you can increase your budget.

 

[Tetras]

I mostly play rust and I'm fed up with really slow load in times etc

Do you have this game on the M.2 drive? I'm not familiar with it, so I don't know where the bottleneck is likely to be (CPU or storage).

If you were prepared to use your graphics card for the time being, I think you'd get a MUCH better upgrade by doing the CPU first, since you could afford e.g. a 12600KF (£150ish), a new motherboard and 32GB DDR5.

Lower-end graphics aren't really worthwhile from a 980 Ti (6400/6500 XT are both slower and the 3050 is only a bit faster), but if you could save up around £500 for a 4070 Super or 7900 GRE, then that would be.

 

[dfour]

Rust. MMO survival game

• Minimum
• OS: Windows 10 64bit
• Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 / AMD FX-9590 or better
• Memory: 10 GB RAM
• Graphics: GTX 670 2GB / AMD R9 280 better
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 25 GB available space
• Additional Notes: SSD is highly recommended or expect longer than average load times
• Recomended.
• OS: Windows 11 64bit
• Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
• Graphics: GTX 980 / AMD R9 Fury
• DirectX: Version 12
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 25 GB available space
• Additional Notes: SSD Required
• 
  
• If the drive is full then you will experience slower loading times. You current gpu is the recommended one so you could go with Tetras suggestion and also get a faster/bigger m.2 ssd.

Rust also likes AMD X3D chips as it is quite cpu bound

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D Eight Core 4.1GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-01799) = £218.99
• 1 x Lexar NM790 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 Solid State Drive (LNM790X001T-RNNNG) (SKU: STO-LEX-01452) = £69.95
• 1 x Gigabyte B550 AORUS Elite AX V2 (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-59Q-GI) = £124.99
• 1 x Jonsbo CR-2000 GT Dual Fan ARGB 120mm CPU Cooler - Black (SKU: HS-005-JB) = £34.99

Total: £448.92 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

Replace the jonsbo cooler with a peerless assassin for about the same price

Peerless Assassin – Thermalright

www.thermalright.com

This would be a better long term option

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming B650-Plus WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6K0-AS) = £169.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Six Core 5.10GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DW-AM) = £182.99
• 1 x TeamGroup Delta RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FF3D532G6000HC30DC01) (SKU: MY-0B8-TG) = £109.99
• 1 x Lexar NM790 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 Solid State Drive (LNM790X001T-RNNNG) (SKU: STO-LEX-01452) = £69.95

Total: £532.92 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

AM5 will get a few upgrades in the next couple of years so you could save and buy a 9700x3d when its released later this year.

 

[chockimon]

Prices of computer components are beyond ridiculous at the moment. I would also love to update my ancient Ivy Bridge I7 3770k PC, but even spending £1000 isn't enough for a decent gaming PC these days, especially if you want to max out the graphics at 1080/1440P. These are the cheapest components I could find for building a new PC from scratch. Unfortunetly, I didn't have enough money left for a good GPU.

£800 Total
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X £203
ASUS ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming WiFi £220
G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series (Intel XMP) 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin SDRAM DDR5 6800 CL34-45-45-108 £127
Corsair RM850e (2023) Fully Modular Low-Noise ATX Power Supply £124
ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 420 £110
PC Case £100

Being first and foremost a gamer, I decided to spend the money on a good GPU instead and managed to get a RTX 4070 TI for £640 (-£200 Bargain) which allows me to max out most of the newest games. So apart from the obvious bottlenecking and occasional stuttering, I'm more than happy with my purchase and will update my other components when I can afford it.

I recommend you do the same. The Intel Core i7-5820K isn't a bad CPU. For £80 extra you could buy a Gigabyte RTX 4070 Super and buy the other components when you can afford it. Happy Gaming

 

[Tetras]

I would also love to update my ancient Ivy Bridge I7 3770k PC, but even spending £1000 isn't enough for a decent gaming PC these days, especially if you want to max out the graphics at 1080/1440P. These are the cheapest components I could find for building a new PC from scratch. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough money left for a good GPU.

For 1440p, £1000 isn't easy (especially if you want to go AM5), but you can do it:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-12400F 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AR-IN) = £124.99
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming B660-Plus WIFI D4 - Intel B660 DDR4 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6HN-AS) = £136.98
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (SKU: MY-0AJ-TG) = £59.99
• 1 x SAPPHIRE PULSE AMD Radeon™ RX 7800 XT Gaming Graphics Card with 16GB GDDR6, AMD RDNA™ 3 architecture (SKU: GRA-SPR-00764) = £469.99
• 1 x WD Blue SN580 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-WDC-00540) = £64.99
• 1 x B Grade Phanteks Eclipse P400 Glass Midi Tower Case - Black/Red (SKU: BG-07C-PT) = £43.55
• 1 x MSI MPG A850G PCIE5 UK PSU 850W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply (SKU: CA-00Y-MS) = £98.99

Total: £1,007.47 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

In your example, the main savings would be a peerless assassin or phantom spirit instead of an AIO and a cheaper motherboard that drops PCI-E 5.0 graphics (e.g. TUF B650-Plus which still has a PCI-E 5.0 M.2 slot).

 

[Gray2233]

Friendly reminder that you can still pick up the AMD 6800 for £369, and the AMD 6750XT for £300-305.

Makes these cheaper builds a lot more viable, I'd take either of the above over a Nvidia 4060 any day of the week.

 

[Threepwood]

where the bottleneck is likely to be

the game itself is very weird on how it does things, it forces you to download the map onto your drive, then it puts it into Ram, then it loads it up from there, so it means that if you have anything that is slow it will be felt, the map download is pretty big too, so that takes a while, and that then is a large amount to copy over to the ram, it's bonkers!, the main bottleneck is the game itself, i keep meaning to try it now with my pcie5 m.2

 

[tamzzy]

Prices of computer components are beyond ridiculous at the moment.
These are the cheapest components I could find for building a new PC from scratch. Unfortunetly, I didn't have enough money left for a good GPU.

£800 Total
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X £203
ASUS ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming WiFi £220
G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series (Intel XMP) 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin SDRAM DDR5 6800 CL34-45-45-108 £127
Corsair RM850e (2023) Fully Modular Low-Noise ATX Power Supply £124
ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 420 £110
PC Case £100

i'm not surprised as these are NOT the cheapest components. the budget has not been allocated well, nor parts picked sensibly to fit the budget

and managed to get a RTX 4070 TI for £640 (-£200 Bargain)

nice find!