How to upgrade from this ?

[Fanat]

Hello, so here is my build from couple ears ago. it performed very well for what I needed it to but it's time to upgrade. Can someone advise me for what should I get, I want AMD Ryzen processor and if that is really an option with my build, I'm the farthest person from a person who knows about computers.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FGgH3F

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 880K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($96.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI A88XI AC V2 Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($42.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.98 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB SC GAMING Video Card ($199.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Thermaltake Core V1 Snow Edition Mini ITX Tower Case ($53.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($32.99 @ Newegg)

 

[WildCard999]

The Ryzen upgrade would be good, how much can you spend on upgrades?

 

[spdragoo]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($175.77 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($120.36 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($163.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $460.02
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 10:32 EDT-0400

You can reuse your storage, GPU, & PSU (& should be able to reuse the case, since this is also a Mini-ITX motherboard). Just in case it doesn't let you just reactivate Windows, make sure you back up your files first.

 

[Fanat]

The Ryzen upgrade would be good, how much can you spend on upgrades?

I was hoping to be around $300, but can spend 400-500 if the upgrade is substantial.

 

[WildCard999]

$300 is good for a upgrade.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($99.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (rev. 1.0) Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($113.39 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $303.26
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 11:00 EDT-0400

Although if you could get a 2x8gb kit that would be better.

 

[Fanat]

$300 is good for a upgrade.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($99.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (rev. 1.0) Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($113.39 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $303.26
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 11:00 EDT-0400

Although if you could get a 2x8gb kit that would be better.

Don't I have a pretty much same thing going on with my memory ? it looks same to me but again I don't know anything as far as computers go.

 

[theyeti87]

$300 is good for a upgrade.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($99.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (rev. 1.0) Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($113.39 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $303.26
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 11:00 EDT-0400

Although if you could get a 2x8gb kit that would be better.

Bad selection of CPU for this user. The Ryzen APU will be wasted with his GTX 1060 3GB.

 

[Fanat]

$300 is good for a upgrade.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($99.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (rev. 1.0) Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($113.39 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $303.26
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 11:00 EDT-0400

Although if you could get a 2x8gb kit that would be better.

Bad selection of CPU for this user. The Ryzen APU will be wasted with his GTX 1060 3GB.

Graphics are not what I'm shooting for, I don't play games that much anymore. This is used for a home office computer, I have to have bunch of tabs open at the same time that refresh automatically and yeah, just multitasking since I watch videos when I work if it's pretty slow, but still have to have other tabs open in a browser that are constantly refreshing.

 

[Fanat]

$300 is good for a upgrade.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($99.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (rev. 1.0) Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($113.39 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $303.26
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 11:00 EDT-0400

Although if you could get a 2x8gb kit that would be better.

Bad selection of CPU for this user. The Ryzen APU will be wasted with his GTX 1060 3GB.

Oh sorry, I see that you meant that my video card isn't going to be used much with that CPU, for some reason I thought you meant that that CPU is too good for my Video Card, but you meant opposite. Can you suggest a better way to do it please ?

 

[WildCard999]

$300 is good for a upgrade.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($99.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (rev. 1.0) Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($113.39 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $303.26
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 11:00 EDT-0400

Although if you could get a 2x8gb kit that would be better.

Bad selection of CPU for this user. The Ryzen APU will be wasted with his GTX 1060 3GB.

It would be a waste if I went with the 1200 or 1300X as the 2200G performs the same but also has the iGPU which is a nice option in case something happens to the 1060. Also the 2200G/1200 or 1300X would still be a big upgrade over that 880K.

If multitasking is more of the focus and the OP can spend more then I'd look at the 2400G/1600 or even 1700 if the extra cores/threads are required.

 

[Fanat]

$300 is good for a upgrade.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($99.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (rev. 1.0) Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($113.39 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $303.26
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 11:00 EDT-0400

Although if you could get a 2x8gb kit that would be better.

Bad selection of CPU for this user. The Ryzen APU will be wasted with his GTX 1060 3GB.

It would be a waste if I went with the 1200 or 1300X as the 2200G performs the same but also has the iGPU which is a nice option in case something happens to the 1060. Also the 2200G/1200 or 1300X would still be a big upgrade over that 880K.

If multitasking is more of the focus and the OP can spend more then I'd look at the 2400G/1600 or even 1700 if the extra cores/threads are required.

What about the memory then ? as I mentioned mine looks the same, is the other one have different socket or just newer and faster ?

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

With that card, take a hard look at the ryzen 1600. Good chip. I have one myself. Also, I think they've been going as low as 150ish recently due to the incoming refresh.

The other thing would be to save up and upgrade later to 16 gb of ram as that will also help with multitasking.

 

[WildCard999]

$300 is good for a upgrade.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($99.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (rev. 1.0) Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($113.39 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $303.26
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 11:00 EDT-0400

Although if you could get a 2x8gb kit that would be better.

Bad selection of CPU for this user. The Ryzen APU will be wasted with his GTX 1060 3GB.

It would be a waste if I went with the 1200 or 1300X as the 2200G performs the same but also has the iGPU which is a nice option in case something happens to the 1060. Also the 2200G/1200 or 1300X would still be a big upgrade over that 880K.

If multitasking is more of the focus and the OP can spend more then I'd look at the 2400G/1600 or even 1700 if the extra cores/threads are required.

What about the memory then ? as I mentioned mine looks the same, is the other one have different socket or just newer and faster ?

Your current RAM is DDR3 but the newer CPU's/Motherboards require DDR4, also Ryzen works better with higher speeds which is why I went with the 2800mhz.

 

[Fanat]

$300 is good for a upgrade.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($99.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (rev. 1.0) Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($113.39 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $303.26
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 11:00 EDT-0400

Although if you could get a 2x8gb kit that would be better.

Bad selection of CPU for this user. The Ryzen APU will be wasted with his GTX 1060 3GB.

It would be a waste if I went with the 1200 or 1300X as the 2200G performs the same but also has the iGPU which is a nice option in case something happens to the 1060. Also the 2200G/1200 or 1300X would still be a big upgrade over that 880K.

If multitasking is more of the focus and the OP can spend more then I'd look at the 2400G/1600 or even 1700 if the extra cores/threads are required.

What about the memory then ? as I mentioned mine looks the same, is the other one have different socket or just newer and faster ?

Your current RAM is DDR3 but the newer CPU's/Motherboards require DDR4, also Ryzen works better with higher speeds which is why I went with the 2800mhz.

Thanks for explaining, very helpful.
Can you elaborate on this ? and maybe show a build ?
"If multitasking is more of the focus and the OP can spend more then I'd look at the 2400G/1600 or even 1700 if the extra cores/threads are required."

 

[theyeti87]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($175.77 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($120.36 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($163.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $460.02
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 10:32 EDT-0400

You can reuse your storage, GPU, & PSU (& should be able to reuse the case, since this is also a Mini-ITX motherboard). Just in case it doesn't let you just reactivate Windows, make sure you back up your files first.

This is along the lines of what I would suggest in your case.

 

[logainofhades]

Spending more for 16gb ram, isn't a bad idea, really. A 2400g, for 4c/8t or a 1600 with 6c/12 isn't a bad idea either, for a bit of longevity with regards to multitasking ability. The only bonus to the 2400g is the integrated graphics would allow you to keep using your system, should your graphics card die. Also want to point out Ryzen 2 is due out sometime this month, iirc.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor ($162.79 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (rev. 1.0) Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($113.39 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team - Dark 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($164.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $441.07
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 12:11 EDT-0400

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($175.77 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (rev. 1.0) Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($113.39 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team - Dark 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($164.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $454.05
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 12:11 EDT-0400

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

The biggest thing will probably be ram. Really, since the op isn't a gamer, if he wanted to save money, could even look at the ryzen 5 1400. That would give 4 cores and 8 threads similar too the 2400g, though you'd forgoe the integrated graphics. But that would allow a little more budget free for ram.

If he's using Google chrome for example, I think chrome can pretty well eat ram, especially if you have a lot of tabs etc open at the same time.

 

[logainofhades]

You only save about $20 with the 1400, and the 2400g is a faster cpu.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

It is faster, I guess it depends on budget. If op isn't gaming, he may not see the difference. I thought 2400g was closer to 170. However, I see Amazon has it for 162. So at that you aren't talking much money.

If the op goes for an apu, then I concur, get the 2400. Otherwise, get the 1600 if practical.