Upgrade advice

[ATiRubyfan]

Good morning.

May I have some assistance plase?

I have an elderly family friend ( in her 60s ) who wants her PC upgraded.
I last built her one 11 years with an i5 3330s.

These are the specs that I have come up with for a new PC for her. Please advise.

HCS Hellcracks PC case £37
650W Corsair CX £50
Gigabyte B850 Eagle WIFI £150
Ryzen 7 9800X3D £400
Peerless assassin £26
32GB DDR5 Crucial RAM £79
1TB 990 Pro £93

Total - £835

If I swap for the i5 14600K & ASUS Z790-AYW WiFi motherboard, I can save about £120. The plan is also to use integrated graphics.

 

[arc@css]

What will your friend be using the PC for?

A 9800X3D is a very powerful/fast processor (just saying).

 

[freddie64]

The 9800X3D is supposed to be the very best CPU for gaming so will be wasted using just integrated graphics.

How about this? (have also swapped the NVME to a cheaper one)

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Six Core 5.40GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-02677) = £188.99
• 1 x Crucial T500 1TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-01089) = £77.99

Total: £270.97 (includes delivery: £3.99)​

 

[mickyflinn]

AM5 8600g has much better integrated graphics but just for general use any integrated graphics will do .

Here's a matx build

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 8600G Six Core 4.3GHz (Socket AM5) APU with Radeon 760M Graphics (SKU: PRO-AMD-01797) = £179.99
• 1 x Asrock B850M-X WiFi R2.0 (Socket AM5) DDR5 mATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASR-05290) = £124.99
• 1 x TeamGroup Vulcan 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FLBD532G5600HC36BDC01) (SKU: MY-0BB-TG) = £86.99
• 1 x Team Group Z44A7 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-TMG-02623) = £59.99
• 1 x Kolink Stronghold M Micro-ATX Case - Black Window (SKU: CA-068-KK) = £44.98
• 1 x Thermalright Assassin X 120 R Digital Black CPU Air Cooler (SKU: COO-TLR-04203) = £14.99
• 1 x MSI MAG A650BN UK PSU 650W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (SKU: POW-MSI-03345) = £49.99

Total: £573.91 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

 

[ATiRubyfan]

What will your friend be using the PC for?

A 9800X3D is a very powerful/fast processor (just saying).

Just web browsing and light Microsoft Office usage. Absolutely no gaming!

Am I right not to go the Intel route?

 

[jigger]

The current build is probably still more than fine for the use case, but for a few hundred quid you could get something decent from Minisforum that will pull very little power and save a ton of space.

 

[hornetstinger]

Just web browsing and light Microsoft Office usage. Absolutely no gaming!

Am I right not to go the Intel route?

You obviously need a sixteen CPU x 9995WX with 500TB on on die memory, and a hundred trillion googleplex TB of storage.

 

[hornetstinger]

OcUK Gaming Kinetic H6M - Micro ATX AMD A520 Home + Office PC | OcUK

Order now online and benefit from fast delivery.

www.overclockers.co.uk

 

[Tetras]

Just web browsing and light Microsoft Office usage. Absolutely no gaming!

Am I right not to go the Intel route?

The X3D is not worth it for this usage, the non-X3D CPUs are fine.

Intel: it depends on the price, but £120 sounds way too small a saving for that CPU.

 

[hornetstinger]

would be fine with this and it has IGP

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-six-core-3.5ghz-socket-am5-apu-with-radeon-740m-graphic-pro-amd-01798.html

 

[ATiRubyfan]

Apologies for not updating you all.

I ended up with the below in November :

CASE - Sharkoon RGB Slider - £28
PSU - be quiet! 550W - £49 ( maybe I should have kept the Silverstone 500W from her old PC but it was 12 years old! )
CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 8600G - £152
CPU HSF - Thermalright Assassin X 120 R - £19
MOBO - ASRock B850M Pro-A WiFi - £135
RAM - 32GB CORSAIR Vengeance - £63
SSD - 1TB Lexar EQ790 - £60
I even threw in a monitor as she had an old TFT monitor.
MSI MAG 242C - £69

TOTAL - £575

The old build had the ASROCK B75 Pro-3M and is not compatible with Windows 11 no matter what workarounds are used.

 

[ATiRubyfan]

Looking at current RAM and SSD prices, I am glad she upgraded at the right time. Otherwise, she would paid an extra £350!

 

[freddie64]

The old build had the ASROCK B75 Pro-3M and is not compatible with Windows 11 no matter what workarounds are used.

Did you try RUFUS to make the install USB?

Looking at current RAM and SSD prices, I am glad she upgraded at the right time. Otherwise, she would paid an extra £350!

Well done getting the RAM at that price, was it SH or new?

 

[ATiRubyfan]

Did you try RUFUS to make the install USB?


Well done getting the RAM at that price, was it SH or new?

Yes, I did use Rufus. I also upgraded the BIOS. The damn board does not have a TPM chip.

I got the RAM brand new off ebay.

 

[ATiRubyfan]

Thank you to everyone who posted and assisted.

 

[freddie64]

Yes, I did use Rufus. I also upgraded the BIOS. The damn board does not have a TPM chip.

Thought Rufus was supposed to remove the requirement checks (or whatever) and allow old systems to run Windows 11.

Never had to do this, so not sure of the ins and outs of the process.

Oh well at least the the lady has a new system.