New rig needed - still on 2009 hardware

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Hi all

I wondered if anyone could help, I used to DIY my PCs usually, but it seems the prices seem to have skyrocketed, and wonder if an AIO/ready-build would do?

I'm not a PC gamer (XBOX), but I couldn't afford it anyway... I mean over £1000 just for a decent GPU...wow!
my budget is around £600- I would like PCIe NVMe storage options, DDR4/5 16GB RAM, and at least 8 physical cores on the CPU, I would prefer Intel but I know AMD has some good options.
a dedicated GPU isn't really a need but would be very nice. and of course a decent cooler and PSU - I can repurpose my HDDs and 1TB SATA3 SSD

I am just getting too old to keep up with the many, many new parts that come out every other week.

any advice would be great

thanks in advance

 

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thanks for the replies guys, i'll have a look through them,
its just this machine is Ancient (2009) but has had RAM, SSD and PSU upgraded since - its an old SandyBridge unit, I just want something newer that will only be used for browsing and a music workstation (I like to produce music)

edit: as for more than 4 cores, its something I would like, it would help in my music production, I wouldn't want to spend on an upgrade for the same Core count

 

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Yes to the above post - that's what I meant, I can't afford new ones every year (Wished I could), but I keep them as long as I can with upgrades during their life, etc, for example, this was one I have now was originally:
4GB DDR3@1333Mhz / 3.3Ghz Core-i5 Quad / MSI GTX460N / H66 Chipset mobo / 250GB SATA SSD with 1 x 500GB Seagate HD drive - but now over the years it has had upgrades, like 14GB DDR3@1600MHZ / CPU OC'd up to 4Ghz / 1TB Samsung 860 SATA SSD replaced the older 250GB EVO, and I replaced the MSI GTX460N with a Gigabyte GTX650, as it was newer and was very cheap at the time, but I'm still on DDR3, PCIe Gen2, ALL SATA drives
(1 x 1TB Samsug EVO 860 TLC / 1 x 2TB Western Digital (SMR) / 1 x 2TB Seagate (CMR) / 1 x 500GB Seagate (that's dying - but have everything I need on backups)

as I say its not a gaming rig, I use my Xbox for that, but id love to have a gaming PC with 1440p@144hz capable GPU and monitor (too much money for me so stuck at 60Hz lol)

thanks for the list soldato, i will take a look