Starting to consider an upgrade from my Intel Gen 6 system. I don't require much, mostly browse the net, some large spreadsheet work, play a few fps single-player games, nothing very demanding.
The reasons for the possible upgrade are:
So, I am considering:
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 - Ryzen 5 5000 Series Vermeer (Zen 3) 6-Core 3.5 GHz Socket AM4 65W None Desktop Processor ($150)
GIGABYTE X570S AORUS ELITE (rev. 1.0) AMD Ryzen 3000 PCIe 4.0 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.2 AMD X570S ATX Motherboard ($155)
Crucial P5 Plus M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4 NVMe 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT1000P5PSSD8 ($85)
total = $390
I am unclear on some possible issues:
The reasons for the possible upgrade are:
- purchase a new M.2 PCIe gen 4 1 TB SSD to improve startup time
- update my hardware to be able to migrate from Windows 10 to Windows 11
- add some storage
So, I am considering:
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 - Ryzen 5 5000 Series Vermeer (Zen 3) 6-Core 3.5 GHz Socket AM4 65W None Desktop Processor ($150)
GIGABYTE X570S AORUS ELITE (rev. 1.0) AMD Ryzen 3000 PCIe 4.0 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.2 AMD X570S ATX Motherboard ($155)
Crucial P5 Plus M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4 NVMe 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT1000P5PSSD8 ($85)
total = $390
I am unclear on some possible issues:
- Is this a good combination for the RTX 2060?
- I plan to reuse my DDR4-2400 RAM, but will that be a real hindrance to good performance?
- My current C: drive is the M.2 PCIe gen 3 500 GB drive, which is 94% full and reads about 2800 MB/s. I would like to replace the current C: drive with the new M.2 PCIe gen 4 1 TB drive, to hopefully get to about 5000-6000 MB/s.
- I have a concern about adding the new drive, I think what I need to do is:
- create a Windows 10 recovery USB
- remove the current C: drive
- install the new parts
- start up using the recovery USB which should cause Windows 10 to use the new gen 4 SSD as the C: drive
- shut off power and install the old gen3 SSD in a second M.2 slot
- perhaps copy some of the applications from the gen 3 SSD to the gen 4 SSD.....not sure about this
- finally, format the old gen 3 SSD to use for extra storage as the new gen 4 1 TB drive becomes full