Question Need advice for upgrading my pc

[adebnath398]

Hi there, folks!

Here are my current PC specs. I want to upgrade it.

CPU	AMD Athlon 200GE with Radeon Vega Graphics 3.20 GHz
Mother Board	GA-A320M-S2H (rev. 1.x)
SSD	Maxtor Z1 240 GB Laptop, All in One PC's Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (STA018) (Interface: SATA III, Form Factor: 2.5 Inch)
HDD	Consistent 500 Gb USB Hard Disk for Desktop,Mechanical Hard Disk
PSU	Frontech PS-0005 450 Watts PSU (Silver)
Ram	Corsair Vengeance LPX 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 CL16 Memory
Cabinet	Frontech Swift ATX Computer Cabinet, FT-4240

I need it to run Photoshop, Blender, SQL, and Python.

My budget is $229 / 20,000 Rs

I know this is a very low budget, but whatever works best for now will be okay. Please suggest.

 

[kschendel]

My immediate reaction would be to upgrade the BIOS on the motherboard, drop in a 5600G CPU, and either add another 8 GB stick of RAM, or (preferable) replace with 2x8 of 3200CL16 RAM. I have no idea what pricing is like in your region; if 2x16 is doable, that would be better.

If there's money left over, the next thing to address would probably be to replace the hard drive with an SSD.

 

[DrMrLordX]

@kschendel

sound advice

@adebnath398

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You might do better posting in this forum, since this forum is pretty CPU-specific, and your system will probably need upgrades to more than just the CPU.

 

[mikeymikec]

If that computer is going to be stressing the (new) processor a fair bit, I would consider cooling fans at the front and back of the PC because the motherboard VRMs have no heatsinks and the temps on those cheap boards will spike.

 

[aigomorla]

try to find used enterprise equipment.

I am fairly sure a dual X99 server system with at least 16 cores and 32 threads hyper threading would be faster then a 5600G for blender, and virtualization.

And used enterprise equipment can be found cheap.

Maybe even see if you can get your hands on a Gen1 EPYC.
But look at Ebay for your country for Supermicro systems.

Just a fair warning, if its a pizzabox.. a 1U it will be LOUD, so you may want to look for the 3U -> 4U systems, or see if you can get the board + cpu + ram.

But here is an example of what i mean:

Supermicro X9DRi-F 2U 8 Bay Server 2x E5-2630 (1 2heatsink, 1 1heatsink, 1none) | eBay

Supermicro X9DRi-F 2U 8 Bay Server 2x E5-2630 (1 2heatsink, 1 1heatsink, 1none).

www.ebay.com