What I need to upgrade?

[Choyett]

Hi, a few years ago I built my PC and I think that now is the time to upgrade it a little, but I don't know exactly what to upgrade, I've thinking maybe the processor, but i'm not sure.
So I use my PC mostly for multitasking, the sims 4 and digital drawing
my hardware is:
-ASROCK Motherboard B450M Steel Legend
-2400MHz 16GB Ram
-Ryzen 5 2600
-650W PSU
-120GB SSD, 1TB HDD
-RX580 8G Graphic Card

My budget is not a lot about 300$ maybe 400$

 

[Okedokey]

The only thing I would update on that machine is storage. Nothing else requires an upgrade really.

 

[beers]

A higher capacity NVME drive would be a decent upgrade. 1TB are easily found for sub $100.

Otherwise it seems like what you have would fit your use case without much benefit from further upgrades. It's likely a better investment to save towards a newer platform like AM5 around the corner.

 

[DavidG]

I would agree with @beers you would be better saving for a windows 11 compatible platform and just doing the bare minimum until then

 

[Okedokey]

I would agree with @beers you would be better saving for a windows 11 compatible platform and just doing the bare minimum until then

I'm not sure that is what Beers was saying. The imminent release of AM5 is part of the equation, but Windows 11 can be made to run on any recent platform. Just make sure you disable Bitlocker first.

You can then, either add a TPM module to existing motherboards or simply turn that requirement off by adding a DWORD to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup in the registry with a name of

AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU

and a hex value of 1

Restart computer and install Windows 11 via Windows update. If you want a fresh install, use Rufus, which has an option to remove the TPM requirement from the ISO entirely.

 

[DavidG]

Yes you can run windows 11 on unsupported equipment but Microsoft don't support or recommend it and they state that they reserve the right to stop any updates in the future for that hardware. So it may not be a great idea if this is your main PC.

Windows 11 on devices that don't meet minimum system requirements - Microsoft Support

Installing Windows 11 on devices that do not meet minimum system requirements is unsupported and is not recommended by Microsoft.

support.microsoft.com

 

[Okedokey]

Yes you can run windows 11 on unsupported equipment but

Microsoft don't support or recommend it
and they state that they reserve the right to stop any updates in the future for that hardware.

So it may not be a great idea if this is your main PC.

No one is having problems running Win 11 with the correct configurations and MS support is neither here nor there. Have you ever rang them for support? How would they know anyway? Future update killing would be suicide, plus Windows 12 is in the works. You're falling for a MS sales trick.

However, IF you actually really really need to add the TPM, it's super easy, so do that, as I said. Available here from Asrock for his board and goes where the yellow highlight is below. But really, just hack the registry, update and then do clean install.

 

[Darren]

@Okedokey None of what you're saying is wrong but you're kind of derailing what the original question is. I think most people that have any interest in doing so know about the TPM thing by this point. You can do backdoor hacks/changes all day but that doesn't change the fact it's not officially supported by MS, and for many people that's preferable than jankifying your way into an OS you probably don't even need when W10 is fine. If it works for you and countless others, cool.

To OP, agreed with others. Storage is the main thing. Maybe a GPU but I wouldn't spend money on it right now unless you're having performance problems with your current workload. Don't upgrade just because it feels like you're due. Do it because your performance isn't what you want.