My wife wanted to play the new Baldurs Gate, but her aging PC didn't even meet the minumums. Time for an upgrade. It was a desktop so I was able to swap only the CPU, RAM, GPU, and I added an upgrade to an NVMe main drive. First, the boneyard;

An old I5, dual 560ti, and 32gb of ram which maxed out the motherboard.

Next the finished new product;

Ryzen 5 5600x, 32gb of RAM again but room to grow now, 3060 with 12gb of RAM, and a 2tb NVMe drive. I was even able to get a bracket to reuse the liquid cooler from the old build. No compatibility issues during the install, runs like a champ from first boot. She is happy with the game performance so far too.

#diy #pcgaming