New PC advice

[amx]

My trusty old PC is a bit long in the tooth and fails all the windows 11 upgrade tests so it’s time for an upgrade. I used to be PC obsessed but haven’t kept up to date over the last 5 years or so, making me a bit clueless now.

Doesn’t need to be anything special. I don’t game. It’s mainly used for life admin, browsing / YouTube, storage of TV shows / movies in 1080p, eBay listing, some minor photo editing (removing backgrounds, colour correction, etc).

Main thing I want is for it to feel quick and have a good boot speed. And have at at least 512gb m2 (?) main drive, and 2-4tb of additional storage.

I’m not going to reuse anything from the PC as it’s being donated to my niece for YouTube / Minecraft.

Budget is £600.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

[amx]

Hi

Thanks for this it looks good!

My current specs are Ryzen 7 1700, 16GB Ram @ 1ghz (15-15-15-36), Asus B450 Plus, GTX 1060

 

[amx]

Admirable your donating your pc to your niece but your pc is easy for an upgrade , new CPU like the 5800x/5900x and 32gb of memory.

That’s handy to know. Do you happen to know what ram I need? And can I mix in 2 x 8gb with the two I have as I have 4 ram slots?

 

[amx]

It's best to 2 x16gb 3200mhz rather than mess with 4 sticks as it can become a pain to run all 4 at the correct speed on AM4 . Plus you could use the older memory and CPU for your niece.

You would also need a motherboard bios update if not up to date for the 5000 series to work.

Cheers.

Is there a best price v performance 5000 series option? There seems to be a big price jump between the 5800X and 5900X?