Upgrades (noob alert)

mg3091

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Afternoon all,

So after having built a new desk and moving everything around, my PC will no longer turn on, begins to boot but then shuts off and cycles around, removed graphics card and plugged into onboard graphics, still no luck.

Looking at replacing the PSU first as it's the cheaper option and likely the oldest component, failing that it may be a motherboard issue, the problem is, I don't know a huge amount about what I can and cannot use in my current setup (hence the noob bit) I don't build PC's myself, my old man built this system a good 10+ years ago, the only thing I've bought for it in that time was a 5700XT GPU.

My specs are below, any advice would be greatly appreciated:-

  • MB - Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI
  • CPU - Intel Core i5-6600k
  • GPU - Powercolour Red Devil 5700XT
  • PSU - unsure on brand, but 700W is all I can tell you
  • RAM - 8GB (2x4GB) unsure on brand (DDR4)
 
You can re-use everything from your old build except the CPU and the motherboard. I'd say not worth keeping the memory since you only have 8GB and it would limit you to Intel (AMD's AM5 is DDR5 only).

The i5-12400F is currently £100 and you can get a DDR5 B760 board for around £115 (B760M-K), so that's where I'd look for something 'cheap' and a reasonable upgrade on what you have.
 
That's not so bad, I don't mind upgrading to DDR5 in the future, I firstly need to get the PSU upgrade to hopefully get the pc back up and running again..

Been looking at a couple of Corsair RM ones, hard to know whether to go 650 or 1000 as budget is not a huge issue really (don't want to bankrupt myself obviously) but hard to know what kind of power will be required in future as opposed to now? I've no idea what my current setup demands
 
mg3091 said:
That's not so bad, I don't mind upgrading to DDR5 in the future, I firstly need to get the PSU upgrade to hopefully get the pc back up and running again..

Been looking at a couple of Corsair RM ones, hard to know whether to go 650 or 1000 as budget is not a huge issue really (don't want to bankrupt myself obviously) but hard to know what kind of power will be required in future as opposed to now? I've no idea what my current setup demands
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1000 watt PSUs are only needed for the highest-end PCs and even then, they're usually overkill.

If you stick with a midrange graphics card (like a 4070 or 7800 XT) then 750 or 850 is fine. 650 is also fine, if you're trying to keep costs down.

If you plan on buying an nvidia card in the future I'd consider something like Seasonic's GX-750 ATX 3.0, but otherwise it doesn't matter. ATX 3.1 would have been nice, but I haven't seen any for sale yet.
 
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