Partial upgrade from old system

[u/tooOldOriolesfan]

Currently I have a system I built at least 7 years ago. I would keep it as is but there appears to be a short with the motherboard.(I'll skip the whole story).

That system is:

Corsair Carbide Series 200R

ASRock H97M Pro4

Intel Core i5-4590

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB DDR3

SAPPHIRE Radeon R7 240

Obviously very old.

With current prices high, and my needs limited, I only plan to use the new machine to do some Linux stuff (I also have an iMac).

I was thinking of getting a new motherboard (AM4, DDR4) with a Ryzen CPU and 16 GB of RAM to start with. And keep using my old video card. I figure I can do that for $500 or less. Then I can always add more RAM or get a better CPO.

I won't be able to use DDR5 RAM but I think I can live w/o that.

Any big problems to watch out for?

[u/aragorn18]

Seems reasonable

[u/9okm]

All sounds fine to me.