Help with what finally needs upgrading

Posted by Viking7822@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 3 comments

I built a PC back in 2019 then upgraded to a graphics card a year later. All has been fine (I don't AAA game on it, just general personal and work duties), until about 6m-1 year ago when it would start to occasionally crash, getting slower and now it can't upgrade to windows 11. What bits should I be replacing to update it. Parts listed below. Thank you in advance.

CPU

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

Raven Ridge 14nm Technology

RAM

16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR4 @ 1065MHz (15-15-15-36)

Motherboard

Micro-Star International Co., Ltd B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (MS-7C02) (AM4)

Graphics

8192MB ATI Radeon RX 580 Series (Unknown)

Storage

223GB KINGSTON SA400S37240G (SATA-2 (SSD)

931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1SB10C (SATA )

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PolyamorousPilot@reddit

Oh boy, there's a lot we need to know to help you with upgrading. What is your budget? What are you looking to do with it? If not AAA gaming then what sort of gaming, other uses, etc.

Without that information I'd be suggesting a whole new build, to me none of what you have is worth keeping.

Viking7822@reddit (OP)

Hi, ideally not more than £200-300 absolute max. I honestly probably wouldn't be bothered if it can't really game at all. There is a PS5 at home and I barely get time to have go on that.

I really just use it to do: Discord, watch YouTube, netflix etc, Microsoft office for personal and professional use, general Internet surfing stuff I guess. Not a huge amount of multi tasking unless reading papers and documents for work.

I would be open to kinda starting again but I'm aware that Ram and GPU prices are rather high right now.

RAM and CPU are going to be your biggest upgrades (fuck is your ram slow). Honestly for what you use it for do you need to upgrade? Is there a problem you're trying to fix?