Current desktop is Ryzen 5 2400G on Asus Prime B450M-A, 16GB RAM, Win 10 Home. I added a 4GB GeForce GTX 1650 and no longer use the CPU's integrated graphics; also the 2400G is incompatible with Win 11. No overclocking -- I rarely do demanding gaming, mostly productivity apps and managing large document, music, and video databases. I'd like a modest performance boost, but plan to get most of that by moving OS & apps from the present Samsung SATA SSD boot drive to NVMe in the mobo's M.2 socket (data is still on 16TB of internal SATA6 HDDs plus external USB 3.1gen1 HDD docks.)
For budget reasons I'd like to do it in phases over several months, and am considering the sequence
For budget reasons I'd like to do it in phases over several months, and am considering the sequence
- swapping in a Ryzen 5 5600X
- cloning boot drive to NVMe, then Win 11 upgrade
- eventually -- if e.g. I find I just gotta have more/faster USB or more PCI slots-- move new and existing components to a newer mobo chosen for compatibility with them.