Upgrading or replacing

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Jintezaku

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I have a pc with proprietary parts, meaning I'm currently unable to expand my system any further without exceeding the power limit of the 180watt power supply. It does have an i3-8300 and I was wondering if at this point it's even worth it to bother building a pc with this CPU.

It's mainly for going to be for music recording and some light gaming (meaning current games at 1080p medium settings) , but even for that I'm not sure if this CPU will end up bottlenecking. Also the RAM for this CPU doesn't go over 2400MHZ and I don't know if this will result in higher latency between my DAW and music equipment than higher frequencies would.

I have some parts lined up for a build with this CPU totaling around €270,- which would replace all proprietary parts

- Asrock B365M PRO4-F
- Sharkoon WPM Gold Zero 650W
- Zalman S2
- 2x G.Skill Aegis DDR4 8GB 2400MHZ

This doesn't include a GPU, and that's mainly because I want to wait just a bit longer so that 3050TI's are actually around MSRP.

What would you guys do in my situation? Sell this pc and build one from scratch or is this build still 'viable' in 2022?
 
If you are gonna be ordering new motherboard, psu and ram then you might as well get a new cpu along with it. You currently have an 8th gen cpu and currently have 12th gen cpus out now. You might as well get something thats gonna last a long time if you are rebuilding. I'm not sure exactly where you are getting your parts from but let us know and we can recommend something from there that would work out well for you.
 
Thanks for the response! I live in the Netherlands myself so the vendors are probably different from where you are, but I'm mainly after a solid parts list so I can start sourcing parts next month.

My budget is around €550 ($600) and I'd need to get a CPU, motherboard, power supply, case and ideally a good SSD to use as a boot drive.

I got a crucial ballistix 3000 16GB stick from a friend today together with a GTX 960 which will be enough to get up and running for in the short term.

After your message I began to look at alternatives and currently am looking at this combo.

- AMD Ryzen 5600x €240
- Gigabyte B550M Aorus Pro-P €110

There are other motherboards available but they pretty much go from around €100 to around €200 with not really a place in between. I don't want to skimp out on a motherboard but paying almost the same for the board as for the CPU seems overkill to me.

If I were to go with Intel instead, the 10400KF is priced the same and performance seems to be on par with the 5600x from what I can gather. However this would come without a cooler.

In both cases I'd still need the PSU, case, additional cooling (if not included with the case) and preferably a m.2 ssd for a boot drive.

Any and all advice/tips are greatly appreciated!
 
If you are using an online store, post the link so we can post parts from there. Really can't recommend parts without knowing what is available there.
 
If you want to go Intel instead, I would recommend these.

Motherboard - https://azerty.nl/product/gigabyte/4616548/b560m-ds3h-v2-rev-1-0-moederbord-micro-atx
Cpu - https://azerty.nl/product/intel/4474614/core-i5-11400-processor-2-6-ghz-4-4-ghz-6-cores or https://azerty.nl/product/intel/4474617/core-i5-11600-processor-2-8-ghz-4-8-ghz-6-cores
SSD - https://azerty.nl/product/samsung/4476664/980-500-gb-solid-state-drive-intern-m-2-2280
PSU - https://azerty.nl/product/evga/4147491/650-b5-voeding-intern-atx-atx12v-2-4

Or you can go Intel 12th gen.

Motherboard - https://azerty.nl/product/gigabyte/4661829/b660m-ds3h-ddr4-moederbord-micro-atx
CPU - https://azerty.nl/product/intel/4652079/core-i5-12500-processor-3-0-ghz-4-6-ghz-6-core-6p-0e

As far as a case goes, just get one you like and within your budget or maybe somebody can offer a suggestion for it.

If you still want to go AMD, your choice is good enough.
 
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