Just check the specs

http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-B25...ing-5-rev-10#sp
http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-H270-HD3-rev-10#sp

I can tell you. Intel is not worth the money for workstation rig. The extra cores and threads will blow Intel away.

Also, your budget too low to build a good workstation rig.

Core i5-7400 - 837
Gigabyte B250M-D3H - 449
Kingston 8GB DDR4-2133 X1 - 254
Corsair VS 450W - 184
Tecware F3 case - 124
Phillips 257E7QDSB 25" monitor - 659

RM2507 total

Change CPU to i5-7500 and add another 8GB RAM.

Show him this
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-r...0-review,1.html

He gonna lose out a lot.

Resale? Doubt it for i5.

Yes, in multi-threaded. It can beat any mainstream i7.

I don't see any reason to upgrade from i5 with your usage pattern, i5 is more than enough to serve you at the moment, if the pattern doesn't change, it can last you for many years, those are light weight tasks.

Do you feel that your PC started to slow down a lot? If yes, check the RAM usage, 4GB is barely enough nowadays if you don't practice memory management (especially with multiple Chrome/FF tabs left opened in the background), if the usage pattern of this rig (i5 750 + 4GB RAM) is the same as the one mentioned earlier by you (i5 4570 + 8GB RAM) then I don't think you need to upgrade yet, maybe in the next 2 years 
AOC E2270SWDN/Asus VS228NE? Thick bezel monitor has started to fade away recently, most of the leftover stocks are still based on old models and specs.

Have you checked the RAM usage, disk usage in Task Manager? Upgrading to Ryzen will help IF the slow down is caused by the processor itself and not other components, if you don't have SSD and still rely on HDD then the culprit might be it.

That's why I said check "Windows Task Manager" when you feel the slow down, in Task Manager, switch to "Performance" tab, observe the usage of each components (CPU, Memory, Disk etc.).

80% of the RAM is in use, not very close to the limit where Windows will start using pagefile/swapfile for additional memory space yet, do you feel the PC is very slow now? If yes then what you are doing with the PC currently? Just browsing and already feel slow?

Poor memory management (a.k.a RAM is not enough), get another 4GB DDR3 RAM or 8GB DDR3 RAM, should fix it.

If you have the budget then you may go for the whole CPU platform upgrade, if you want to save money or see if adding more RAM is able to fix the slow down or not, then you may consider my suggestion 

Both are different things, one is memory one is CPU.

If you are running low on memory then adding more memory will fix the issue, but if the culprit is the slow CPU (4th gen i5 is still kicking a** these days BTW unless you are doing heavy CPU stuffs on it), then adding more memory won't be able to solve the issue.

And nope, 16GB is not overkill, it depends on your usage pattern and common practice on memory management.

I did say it is fast UNLESS you run heavy stuff with it, so it depends on what you do with your PC (or what you use for), there are many application these days and it is impossible to cover all of them under same category, if you do a lot of heavy video rendering, 3D rendering etc then the i5 will be noticeably slower than Ryzen 5 1600 in terms of the time needed to complete an operation.

Official system requirements stated 2GB RAM for 64 bit OS, that's the minimum value recommended by Microsoft.

Some users don't do intense stuff with their PC, only email, light browsing, videos & music etc, 4GB is enough for these super easy and light weight tasks.

8GB is a common value nowadays if you are a normal user (light to medium multitasking, gaming etc.), 16GB or more if you are a heavy user.

My office rig only has 4GB of RAM, my usage pattern on this rig is light and only for email, light browsing and music, 4GB is enough for me, so until now I still haven't upgrade it to 8GB yet, so in conclusion, it depends on your usage pattern, if you aren't craving for more memory, then getting more memory will not speed up your PC, it is like you build 3 lanes road in a kampung but then the demand is not there yet (low traffic flow) and you expand the lane again to 6 lanes, isn't it a waste of resource and money? 

Official system requirements stated 2GB RAM for 64 bit OS, that's the minimum value recommended by Microsoft.

Some users don't do intense stuff with their PC, only email, light browsing, videos & music etc, 4GB is enough for these super easy and light weight tasks.

8GB is a common value nowadays if you are a normal user (light to medium multitasking, gaming etc.), 16GB or more if you are a heavy user.

My office rig only has 4GB of RAM, my usage pattern on this rig is light and only for email, light browsing and music, 4GB is enough for me, so until now I still haven't upgrade it to 8GB yet, so in conclusion, it depends on your usage pattern, if you aren't craving for more memory, then getting more memory will not speed up your PC, it is like you build 3 lanes road in a kampung but then the demand is not there yet (low traffic flow) and you expand the lane again to 6 lanes, isn't it a waste of resource and money? 

Prices are from E-tech PC which is a computer shop based at Kepong.

CPU = AMD RYZEN 5 1600 3.6GHZ SOCKET AM4 - RM 1039
MOBO = GIGABYTE AB350M-GAMING 3 SOCKET AM4 MAINBOARD - 459
RAM = G.SKILL FLARE-X SERIES 16GB (2X8GB) DDR4 2400MHZ (F4-2400C16D-16GFXR) - 630
GPU = GALAX GEFORCE GTX 1070 EX 8GB GDDR5 256BIT PCI-E - 2199
SSD = SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 250GB NVME SSD (MZ-V6E250BW) - 689
HDD = SEAGATE 3.5” BARRACUDA 1TB SATA 6GB/S 7200RPM (ST1000DM010) - 219
PSU = SEGOTEP GP700G 600W 80+ GOLD POWER SUPPLY - 289
CASE = TECWARE F3 M-ATX GAMING CHASSIS - 125

MONITOR = DELL 27” P2715Q ULTRA HD 4K MONITOR - 2359

Total = RM 8008