PSU advice for Oooooold build

[Skoobaz]

Lads,

I have an old TZ68A+ board, i5 3570k and an old gts450 1gb and 16gb DDR3 2400 (half of which appears to have popped too so effective 8gb),I want to get properly working for my son. He's at that age now where his own machine is viable.
Problem is the corsair psu I had in there popped, I have now an old generic 500w atx PSU in there but I think it may not have enough pnuch, as when the GPU is in slot 1 PCIE it fails to boot the GPU. If the GPU is in slot two it works, But then games, specifically unity based games ainly, crash. Very frustrating for him with KSP and cities skyines 1 for instance. Any recommends to upgrade this aging old friend of mine?

Recommend PSU
GPU
Ram

Thanks folks!

 

[Wolfeh]

Eh, no price range? It makes a helluva difference.

Guess a 4090 would do nicely?

Uhm.

How about a decent brand 650w+ psu, a rx 480/rx580 8GB (or something from nvidia) and some generic sticks at 3200mhz?

eg.(just grabbed the first things I saw- there are possibly better options):

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There are obviously other gpu's at other price points that could also work, depending on the intended usage.

 

[solz]

I have used a few generic power supplies and some are okay and others are not worth the sticker with its wattage on.

But don't see why it'd wouldn't be able to power that setup as that shouldn't be too taxing.
I think there might be something else wrong with the system.

I would look at getting the system stable before trying to fix stuff that you might have to get rid of. Check the motherboard for any swallen capacitors as they can also cause similar issues and think that might be one of the reason slot 1 is not working.

Else look at selling it and try buy something newer, note that i3 8100 is actually faster than that i5.

 

[goldfritter]

Yeah one slot not working wouldn't be caused by bad PSU, I reckon. More likely a mobo fault