Need to upgrade my system. What parts should I be looking for next?

[jcdumaguing226]

Need to upgrade my system because of issues with my PSU and Motherboard where one of the pins among the 24-pin connector of the PSU melted and hindered any upgrade on both parts.
Currently I have these peasant specs for my gaming, Photoshop, Premier, After Effects workloads.

CPU: AMD A8-7650K with Radeon R7 Graphics, 10 Compute Cores (4C+6G) running at 4.00 GHz
GPU: 2GB PALIT GeForce GTX 750 Ti StormX OC
RAM: 1x4GB 1333 MHz DDR3, 1x4GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Kingston Generic
Cooler: DeepCool Ice Edge Mini FS V2.0
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-F2A58M-DS2 FM2/FM2+
SSD: 1x240GB Kingston UV400S
HDD: 1x1TB Toshiba 5400 RPM Laptop HDD
PSU: Generic 600W

 

[jimmysmitty]

Do you have a budget?

This might also be a good lesson to never trust a generic PSU. They always have issues.

 

[jcdumaguing226]

Do you have a budget?

This might also be a good lesson to never trust a generic PSU. They always have issues.

Yeah learned it the hard way.

Budget is around $250? Will probably be looking for used parts

 

[jimmysmitty]

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAGGN7HB5987 $119

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151189 $70

If the rest of the parts are good they should all fit and work in that board and thats a Seasonic PSU which is one of the best OEM brands out there.

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story6&reid=529

Asus makes good board. Or you could go with a similar Gigabyte with a slightly newer chipset for even less:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128763

Otherwise $250 is not a ton to work with but those are all new parts too.

 

[srimasis]

Don't change your SSD, HDD, GPU and Cabinet. You can get a new faster CPU for 250$

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium Gold G5400 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($59.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B360M DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($65.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: GeIL - EVO POTENZA 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($72.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair - CX (2017) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($23.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $222.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-01 20:32 EDT-0400

 

[jcdumaguing226]

Is my CPU enough for my workload? I cant say much because I haven't been able to try a better PC other than this one

 

[jcdumaguing226]

Don't change your SSD, HDD, GPU and Cabinet. You can get a new faster CPU for 250$

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium Gold G5400 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($59.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B360M DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($65.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: GeIL - EVO POTENZA 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($72.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair - CX (2017) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($23.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $222.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-01 20:32 EDT-0400

How much is the cheapest cabinet available that still looks good? Took all the parts out and resoted to an open air setup due to some grounding issues at home and my brother got shocked twice already when he accidentally touched the case

 

[srimasis]

The new Pentiums with 4 threads are certainly faster than old AMD A8 CPUs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWv33tOupWU
(The above video compares Pentium G4560 with A8 7600, should give you a rough performance comparison of the G5400 I mentioned and the A8 7650k you have)

 

[srimasis]

Don't change your SSD, HDD, GPU and Cabinet. You can get a new faster CPU for 250$

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium Gold G5400 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($59.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B360M DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($65.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: GeIL - EVO POTENZA 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($72.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair - CX (2017) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($23.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $222.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-01 20:32 EDT-0400

How much is the cheapest cabinet available that still looks good? Took all the parts out and resoted to an open air setup due to some grounding issues at home and my brother got shocked twice already when he accidentally touched the case

It usually happens due to a poor PSU. Yes you can get a decent cabinet for about 30$.

Examples:
1) Deepcool TESSERACT SW
2) Raidmax Viper II
3) RaidMax Vortex

The budget cabinets I mentioned above have good cooling and side tempered glass so they will be beautiful to look at.

 

[jcdumaguing226]

Thank you very much