Good Friday Pre-configured purchase to upgrade Dons aging AMD CPU and AMD RX 480 4GB GPU

[MatthewEvans138]

So, as a parent of a teen who's into streaming with OBS and Twitch like it's a religion and playing Fortnite, Minecraft, Microsoft flight Sim and so on, I had to upgrade his ancient desktop hardware: AMD FX 8120 8 core Processor, AMD RX 480 4GB GPU and 16gb DDR3. It was really struggling with the multi tasking of all the above. Frame rates were having to be really low and he was getting regular buffering and problems.
He was thinking of self build but we've little experience of that and I prefer some backup warranty when spending large sums. So I spotted this new unit on PC Specialist, a Pre-configured unit on Black Friday.
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X Eight Core CPU (3.4GHz-4.6GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® PRIME B550-PLUS (AM4, DDR4, PCIe 4.0)
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB AMD RADEON™ RX 7600 - HDMI, DP - DX® 12
So far, so good. Delivery experience was fine. Set up I left to my Son and it was simple. He's immediately finding this unit's handling everything easily, CPU barely hitting 50% using Microsoft Flight Sim and he's able to stream with ease.
I don't have the knowledge to give details here that you're gonna wanna read if you're tech savvy, but I wanted to say that so far I've definitely chalked up some solid parent points this Christmas.
(Added a Streamdeck too from Santa 😉)

Q- what next to add? Thinking it needs more storage??
Q- where does this GPU sit when compared to other makes?

 

[SpyderTracks]

Q- what next to add? Thinking it needs more storage??

First thing, especially if he's into MSFS is adding another 2 x 8Gb RAM at the same speeds, MSFS will run a lot smoother, games in general will actually, it's kind of the go to amount these days. It's not an expensive upgrade either.

Could you post the full specs from the order page (remember to delete your windows key in case it's shown) as there may be other areas that could improve?