Question Building new PC - What parts from my old PC can I reuse?

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My old PC is dead (see: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/my-10-year-old-pc-wont-boot.3798688/ ) and I want to use its old RAM, power supply and GPU.
Will an old DDR3 work with a new mainboard for Ryzen 5/7?
I am not really interested in gaming.
I need a high freq CPU, not multi-threading, because my compiler is not multi-threaded yet.

My budget is around 1000 euros.

PS: after the first mainboard died, I purchased a used one (pretty expensive). It died 1 year later in the exactly same way.
So, I am somehow afraid to reuse the PSU. Maybe it killed the mobo...
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Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 rev 4.

CPU:
AMD FX 8350 8 core black edition
Frequency 4000 MHz
Max turbo freq 4200 MHz

RAM:
Kingston KHX1866C10D3/8GX
4x 8gb
DDR3 SDRAM
CAS 9
Freq: 838Mhz?

C:\ SSD 840 Evo 120GB SATA
D:\ Hitachi 3TB HGST HDN 724030ALE640 SATA

Video: nVidia GeForce GTX 760
RAM: 32GB
 
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> budget? everything is how old?
Hi
I updated my original post: the budget is about 1000 euro ($1100), but is only a number I came up with, because when I built my old system (12 years ago) I used the same number :)
Can be a higher IF necessary. But since I can reuse the GPU, 1000 should be fine.
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So everything is 12 years old. Back at that time the system was STRONG... for 1000 euros :)

My priority is a high frequency CPU. My old CPU was compiling 1000000 sloc in under 25 secs. I hope that the new CPUs today have some other improvements, because the frequency didn't increased that much :(
Reason for which I kept my old system until it died.
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As you can see, I built my last system 12 years ago, so I am a bit behind with what's new.....
 

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AM5 with 8700G - 650 motherboard - 32gb ram - 650 psu gold - nvme 1TB
look for something like this and you will be much below 1000
 
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My budget is around 1000 euros
Assuming you want to use all of it, reuse the gpu, and don't care about multithreading:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/fxssbL

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 3.9 GHz 6-Core Processor (€269.63 @ Amazon Deutschland)
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler (€41.89 @ Proshop)
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING B650-E WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard (€134.90 @ Computeruniverse)
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory (€221.90 @ Proshop)
Storage: Crucial P3 Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (€115.99 @ Alza)
Case: NZXT H5 Flow (2022) ATX Mid Tower Case (€79.90 @ Computeruniverse)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G12 GC 750 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (€69.90 @ Alza)
Total: €946.48
 
Your FX-8350 is very slow by today's standards. Particularly in single threaded performance.
Run the cpu-z bench and look at the single thread performance rating.
You should see a rating of about 232:
http://valid.x86.fr/bench/3ja7rs
By comparison, a modern $125 I3-13100 processor scores 678.
A similar amd rating would be a ryzen 5 7600. About $200.
Spending more gets you mote processing threads, but not that much more in single thread performance.


DDR3 ram is obsolete. DDR5 2 x 16gb would be about $60.

AA B760 based motherboard for Intel would be about $125.

PSU, case, and gpu can likely be reused.