I have an old gaming pc so I want to change some components. Can you help me ?

Posted by Tabarnak__@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 9 comments

Hi guys. I have an old gaming pc that has :

- an AMD Phenom II X4 955 processor

- 8Gb of RAM

- an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3gb graphic card

(Also other things but they arent really important nor outdated)

I was thinking of getting new components because due to the outdated processor I cant play some games or even get Windows 11 (i'm on Windows 10) and because of the small quantity of memory my pc lags a lot.

I don't have a big budget so I was thinking of getting :

- an AMD Ryzen 5 7600x processor

- either a Asrock B650M HDV/M.2 or a Asrock B650M Pro RS motherboard

- and a 6000mhz CL30 Kit (2×16Gb) for the RAM

Can you help me choose the brand for the RAM and tell me if there's any other motherboards that are good ? Also I'm not changing my graphic card for now cause it's too expensive for me to get a new one, but if you know any cheap and good graphic card that are better than mine tell me.

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Bichaelcycle@reddit

what is your budget?

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Tabarnak__@reddit (OP)

At best I would say 700/800€ : 300/400€ for the RAM and 300€ for the processor + motherboatd (the Ryzen 5 7600x costs 150€ rn with a promotion).

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Bichaelcycle@reddit

what country

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Tabarnak__@reddit (OP)

France

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Bichaelcycle@reddit

A bit over budget but you're getting a crazy gpu upgrade PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	€79.24 @ PC Componentes
Motherboard	Gigabyte B550 EAGLE WIFI6 ATX AM4 Motherboard	€116.80 @ Alternate
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	€199.99 @ Amazon France
Video Card	PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB Video Card	€422.90 @ Alternate
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total	€818.93
Generated by PCPartPicker 2026-04-20 01:36 CEST+0200

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Tabarnak__@reddit (OP)

Damn thank you man you're a life saver, I didnt even know there were memory cards for less than 300€. Also ty for the video card even if more than 800€ is a bit over budget I will buy the processor, motherboard and memory first to then in the meantime buy the video card when I have enough

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Bichaelcycle@reddit

IF you want a better upgrade path for the future. https://fr.pcpartpicker.com/list/LYXdmL

Its AM5 and the CPU is better

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bringbackcayde7@reddit

if you go for only 16gb ram for am4, you have enough for graphics card

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Tabarnak__@reddit (OP)

Does the graphic card depend on the memory ? I don't really know a lot of things about pcs