Just need a little advice on upgrading my sons PC please?

[truewraith]

Please can someone tell me if i need to update my sons pc as its getting groggy and slow and sometimes crashes as i doesn't like the 6600 i put in and apart from the gpu which is fine and i was wondering what mb and cpu would be a good upgrade for this and psu if needed budget is under £500 and low as possible to be fair as money isnt great atm but i want to try my best to keep my son happy and carrying on having fun playing games etc


AMD RX 6600XT
corsair tx 550m
amd ryzen 3 3100 4 core am4
msi b450m mortar max (ms-7b89)
ddr4 3200
win10 64

 

[truewraith]

i currently have a 580 in there atm due to crashes etc with the 6600 in

 

[truewraith]

The Ryzen 3100 is the weak point, but I'd honestly start with troubleshooting why you're crashing rather than throwing money at it.

yeah i totally understand and ive tried so much inc updating the bios and the pc is still the same and when i take out the 6600 and put the 580 back in all is fine. so all i can think of is that the mb or cpu dont work well with the card or i need to reinstall win10.

 

[truewraith]

thanks very much for the recommendations, and i will have a look. also i heard that win11 wasnt great for gaming but that was a while ago and when i tried it then i saw so many issues and the layout was awful as im stuck in the old ways of win7 and 10 is ok lol but 11 was like a mac unless that was changeable !

 

[truewraith]

Have you tried forcing the primary PCIE slot to gen 3 or 2?

If you did want to replace everything, maybe something like this for the £500 you said:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Six Core 5.10GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DW-AM) = £179.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B650M D3HP AX (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03566) = £104.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance EXPO/XMP 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C36 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-CRS-00996) = £82.99
• 1 x Phanteks AMP GH 750W 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply Modular - Black (SKU: POW-PHK-02517) = £84.95
• 1 x Arctic Freezer 36 120m Black CPU Cooler - 2x 120mm (SKU: COO-ARC-02420) = £22.99

Total: £475.91 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

or a cheaper alternative:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-12400F 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AR-IN) = £98.99
• 1 x Asus Prime H610M-A D4 CSM - Intel H610 DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASU-00910) = £109.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Beast 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MY-295-KS) = £52.99
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming 750W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (SKU: CA-061-AS) = £79.99
• 1 x Arctic Freezer 36 120m Black CPU Cooler - 2x 120mm (SKU: COO-ARC-02420) = £23.00

Total: £364.96 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

The CPU cooler is optional in both builds (there's one in the CPU box).

I don't recommend buying another AM4 PC or the Intel build above, since at least AM5 is a new platform. They would both be decent upgrades on the Ryzen 3100.

sorry i didnt get back sooner. thanks very much for this as i will get them all in my basket ready but was going to put windows 11 on first just to see if any different but is there anyway to get rid of the copilot in win11 as ive seen that and i hate it and thats why im on win10 atm.

 

[truewraith]

also not sure how to force the primary PCIE slot to gen 3 or 2? never had to do that when times were more simple well in 2016 lol

 

[truewraith]

i was very thankful for the help and advice, but i wasnt able to buy anything that i wanted due to money issues but now ive come back to buy half is OOS but some is in stock on the £364 basket if thats still a good buy!!