Looking for some techy advice

[BloodOmen]

I don't have a lot of money but I promised my kids I'd upgrade their pcs

Ideally, i'd like to upgrade them to last for as long as possible

Currently they have

1600 Ryzen
RX 580
16 GIG 3200 Ram
Generic Western Digital HDD

My eldest and my youngest is now at a point where they want to play more graphically taxing games and the old ryzen and rx580 is starting to chug now

I figured i'd get them something like this

Part List - AMD Ryzen 5 7600X - PCPartPicker

Part List - AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

uk.pcpartpicker.com

While keeping their RX580 and upgrade that at a later date

I know I could have saved £10 by getting the 7600 but they don't know how to overclock and quite frankly I don't want to mess around with their systems so opted for the 7600x for a higher base clock speed

thoughts?

 

[ECA]

It's fine.

7600vx 7600x is about a 1% diff out of the box, but for the £6 difference, whatever.

For GPU depends on your budget ~£200 ish get a 6600 , ~£300 get a 7600.

 

[Overdriven]

To add to @ECA -- Make sure you're putting a SSD in as their primary drive. The difference in performance between HDD and SSD (And SSD to NVME) is night and day differently.

Got a budget in mind?

 

[BloodOmen]

looking for around £500 each (not including GPU which I would update at a later date)

 

[Jupitus]

This chap does updates on what's out there, and offers build guides - a bit hard to follow sometimes, but you might find it useful @BloodOmen

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=paul%27s+hardware+pc+build

 

[MYstIC G]

I don't have a lot of money but I promised my kids I'd upgrade their pcs

Ideally, i'd like to upgrade them to last for as long as possible

Currently they have

1600 Ryzen
RX 580
16 GIG 3200 Ram
Generic Western Digital HDD

My eldest and my youngest is now at a point where they want to play more graphically taxing games and the old ryzen and rx580 is starting to chug now

I figured i'd get them something like this

Part List - AMD Ryzen 5 7600X - PCPartPicker

Part List - AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

uk.pcpartpicker.com

While keeping their RX580 and upgrade that at a later date

I know I could have saved £10 by getting the 7600 but they don't know how to overclock and quite frankly I don't want to mess around with their systems so opted for the 7600x for a higher base clock speed

thoughts?

Looks good, if you wanted to skip the platform upgrade the 5700X3D might be worth a look

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Ryzen 5 7600X vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software

 

[Overdriven]

If you're willing to hold 3-4 months the 7800X3D bundles will drop as the 9800X3D is coming out relatively soon, otherwise you're looking at a £600 upgrade for CPU, Mobo, RAM, (bundled, cheapest I found last week was £601 inc delivery) and potentially cooler. Or you go with the 5XXX3D chips and save a fortune if you can find them through decent retailers.

I'd say if you can hold, hold, sales coming which should see the 7 series drop a fair bit.

 

[BloodOmen]

I was going to get them a 5600 each rather than the 7600 but I figured if I want to future proof it as much as possible for them while still working with a budget, better to push it to DDR5 rather than keeping it stuck on DDR4 - I haven't looked into the 9000 series AMD stuff but I assume they will also use DDR5, so if the kids do fancy upgrading themselves in future, they can at least make use of their DDR5 from the 7000 series.

I believe they both have 650W PSU's as well so they should be fine, I don't think they'll need upgrading anytime soon as they were gold rated corsairs iirc.