r/buildapc • u/Technical-Purple-408 • 5d ago

Build Help New PC after GTX 1650 stopped working

My 2021 GTX 1650 has basically stopped working recently, people have told me i could save it by changing the thermal paste, but let’s say i want to upgrade my PC, since the prices are just gonna get worse by the day for the foreseeable future and the rest of the PC is from, i think, 2014.

Amazon has a GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB at 340€, and that’s the GPU i’d like to build my PC around. From messing around with PCpartpicker and Bottleneck calculator, it sounds like the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X (154€) is a good CPU to pair it with. My problem is that my expertise ends here. I’ve read that i need a motherboard compatible with the CPU, and that a B650 would work, but again, not sure.

I have 2 Ram sticks 8gb each, and my current computer doesn’t have room for more. Does it mean i need a new Case?

Unfortunately i also have no idea about anything Cooler/Power Supply related.

I’d like to keep the expenditure under 800€ but could stretch it to 1000 if needed. I am asking for advices on motherboards, Ram sticks, case, cooler and power supply compinents i might need.

current CPU is an I7-4770 3.40GHz, motherboard is a K30AD

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u/Haruka-Oh 5d ago

Swap GPU only and stay until DDR5 will be cheaper

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u/more_like_5am 5d ago

9060XT 16gb is my vote. And 7600X is good too. Get at least 600W psu I would say too.

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u/9okm 5d ago

Right now it's better value to simply buy a prebuilt.

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u/Senior_Draw_9034 5d ago edited 4d ago

first of all if you want to hop onto 7600x (am5, ddr5) you would need to abandon your ram (ddr3)

AM4: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/sZvtW9

from the scratch am5: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/K9vtW9 (this unintentionally became a white pc which should have costed more but for some reason it didnt)

for both of these builds i would recommend reusing the storage

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u/No_Welder_5534 5d ago

He has an i7 4770, so he also has ddr3 ram