Finally upgrading from a 5 year old prebuilt

Posted by Unlikely-Giraffe9369@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 4 comments

I bought a prebuilt pc about exactly 5 years ago and I want to finally upgrade. The old pc is an acer nitro n50 and it has

- CPU: Intel i7-9700

- GPU: GTX 1660 Ti

- RAM: 16GB DDR4 2666MHz + an extra 16GB that I added later (exact same model)

- Storage: 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD

Since it is a prebuilt it is very difficult to work in and clearly not meant to be upgradeable (I wasn't even able to take out the GPU or the SSD) so I want to rebuild from scratch. The parts I have chosen are

- AMD Ryzen 5 7600 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor

- ASRock B650M Pro RS WiFi Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard

- G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory

- Kingston NV2 250 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive

- Kingston NV2 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive

- ASRock Challenger OC Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB Video Card

- Deepcool CH370 MicroATX Mid Tower Case

- Corsair RM750e (2023) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

Will be used mostly for gaming (modded minecraft, cyberpunk) and some coding and maybe video editing. I don't care about stuff like RGB or raytracing, I just want good value and performance and for it to last long.

According to pcpartpicker it comes out to $1553 CAD (I am Canadian) but since it is black friday soon I'm hoping to get a discount on some parts and also sell my old pc.

The reason I need 2 SSDs is because I'm planning to dual boot windows and linux (I know it can be done on a single drive but windows updates have caused issues with dual-booting in the past so I want them to be on separate hardware to be safe) For the motherboard I need wifi since ethernet is not an option for me.

Any feedback on these parts would be greatly appreciated, and I am wondering how much I could sell my old pc for? I'm don't want my net cost to be much higher than $1200