Question Upgrading 5 year old broken PC. Stay on AM4 with a 5800X3D or go AM5 with a 7700?

[GEkiDit]

Hey guys,
I’m planning on upgrading my broken PC.
What happened? In short: stability issues for several months and now no boot/blue screen “PC needs to be repaired“. I have tested every component except for the CPU and MoBo in my brothers computer. They all worked perfectly fine. I guess the CPU/MoBo just broke.
So now I i can justify upgrading my PC.

my current specs:

• R5 2600
• MSI B450 Tomahawk
• ROG Vega 64 OC
• G.Skill Trident Z 3200 CL 16 2x8GB
• bequiet! Pure Power 12M 650W (got a new one due to RMA because I thought it was the culprit, they found something but ig it wasn’t the problem)
• 2TB WD HDD
• Crucial 500GB SSD
• CPU Cooler: Alpenföhn Ben Nevis

The two choices I have: AM4 or AM5

Socket	AM4	AM5
CPU	Ryzen 7 5800X3D (275€)	Ryzen 7 7700 (229€, Tray)
MoBo	Asus ROG Strix B550-F Gaming (135€, special offer)	ASRock B650M Pro RS (145€)
Ram	/Keep the current one/	G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO RGB DDR5 6000 CL30 32GB (124€)

and either way, I will get a better CPU Cooler than my current Alpenföhn Ben Nevis: the Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO for 49€

Total AM4: 459€

Total AM5: 547€

Considering that I want to upgrade my GPU in the next 2 years and that my PC will also run SolidWorks a good amount of times due to my studies: Should I go with the 5800X3D and invest the money I saved that way into additional DDR4 Ram, M.2 SSD and the GPU, or should I go with the 7700 for the better work performance and the future proof platform?
Any thoughts are greatl appreciated!

 

[Lutfij]

I'd use this an excuse to move to the new platform.

bequiet! Pure Power 12M 650W (got a new one due to RMA because I thought it was the culprit, they found something but ig it wasn’t the problem)
How old is the PSU in your build? It could also be a corrupt BIOS or that your processor is faulty/failing. I've seen some processors with a faulty/failing IMC(Integrated Memory Controller) to also give out a no a stalled POST sequence but that would mean we're troubleshooting your older platform, meaning we'd need to leave that for another thread.

 

[GEkiDit]

I'd use this an excuse to move to the new platform.

Thanks for the input! I am also leaning towards that option.

How old is the PSU in your build?

got this PSU 2 Months ago.

It could also be a corrupt BIOS or that your processor is faulty/failing.

yeah, i took out the CMOS battery but that didn’t do anything except saying that it got changed.

I've seen some processors with a faulty/failing IMC(Integrated Memory Controller) to also give out a no a stalled POST sequence but that would mean we're troubleshooting your older platform, meaning we'd need to leave that for another thread.

I opened a thread a while ago with my problem. It didn’t go anywhere so I haven’t updated it yet. If you want to check it out:
Thread 'Holy Trinity: random black screen, CPU EZ debug light on, force shutdown required'
https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...bug-light-on-force-shutdown-required.3835460/