PC upgrade to i5-12600
May 17, 2022A while ago I looked into upgrading my desktop PC, which I use primarily for flight simming. The old i5-6600 was getting too slow and the mainboard didn’t have much room for expansion. There was only one ‘fast’ SATA connector and it was a very basic board.
Talking with my best friend about it, I settled on the following configuration:
- Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE DDR4 mainboard
- Intel Core i5 12600K CPU
- Be quiet! Dark Rock 4 CPU cooler
- WD Black SN850 1TB M.2 SSD
I invested more than needed in the mainboard as I want to have ample room for expansion. It supports 4 RAM sticks and 4 NVMe SSDs. The old 2x 16 GB RAM sticks can be used in this PC. For best results I should’ve upgraded the GPU as well, but that’ll be something for another day as I want a substantial upgrade and GPU prices aren’t fun at the moment.