Upgrade <£1000

[Luckystrike123]

My trusty i5 2500k / R390X has finally bitten the dust so I am looking to upgrade the internals of my PC.

I use my PC for gaming @ 1080P / Youtube / MS Office. I don't need a PSU [850W gold], monitor, peripherals etc.

If possible I'd like to use brands that have good UK based RMA [however, I don't know who these brands are...]

I've come up with this, but as I haven't looked at hardware for years I have no idea what is/n't sensible tbh.

AMD Ryzen 5 5500 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail - £109.99
Gigabyte B550 AORUS Elite V2 (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard - £ 139.99
Kingston HyperX Renegade 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX436C17PB4K2/16) - £68.99
be quiet! Pure Rock 2 CPU Cooler - 120mm - £34.99
Seagate FireCuda 520 2TB SSD PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (ZP2000GV3A012) - £119.99
MSI GeForce RTX 4060Ti Dual OC 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £409.99

GRAND TOTAL£891.94

Thanks for you help.

 

[MissChief]

At that budget I’d have thought you could go for an AM5 build rather than a dead socket type? Although there are plenty of options for upgrades still on AM4.

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

May also be worth a look at previous gen gpus
They are literally having big price drops right now
Asus are also doing cashback on top of that
Some of 3xxx series or amd 6xxx series
Are certainly great value for money right now
Just got a 6700xt delivered today
For my stepson new build
With price drop,cashback and sale of the free game
It's costing him £269 for a card that trades blows
With 4060ti
Though is a bit more power hungry
But does have 12gb vram
Cards like the 3060 are starting to drop today in response

 

[Tetras]

Intel / DDR4 alternative:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-12400 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AL-IN) = £174.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B660 DS3H AX - Intel B660 DDR4 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-5AN-GI) = £124.99
• 1 x Lexar Hades 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (SKU: MY-018-LE) = £68.99
• 1 x Akasa Alucia H4 Plus Premium CPU Cooler (SKU: HS-10L-AK) = £38.95
• 1 x WD Black SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T3X0E) (SKU: HD-58G-WD) = £99.95
• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 4060Ti Twin Edge 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-13T-ZT) = £389.99

Total: £905.86 (includes delivery: £8.00)​

Swap cooler for this.