Update I've ordered the parts, thank you so much everyone who shared and donated to this, it's been genuinely heartwarming, I didn't expect the amount of help we've gotten.
Some friends have already been incredibly generous with helping us out with this as you can see by the progress bar on the embed, and to reiterate, this is not urgent but would be a great help, thanks everyone.
I feel like including some more details below with regards to costs, the planned build, etc for those interested in where the money is going and what parts it's going to be buying.
The total cost was put together by adding up all the parts from this brazilian retailer we've chosen, Pichau as they're appearing in the shopping cart. We've been keeping a small spreadsheet with a list of all parts/components, their prices, discounted prices if you buy it without using a payment plan over X months (we referenced the non discounted prices) and what's already been purchased, which so far is only the new PC case with its two included coolers.
We'll hopefully be reusing a ton of components, the PSU, GPU and coolers that are still good, I'm especially hoping the CPU cooler can slot into the new motherboard without any issues. We'll also be buying a 4 dollar motherboard BIOS update service, plus I haven't thought about thermal paste yet, but that's also similarly inexpensive compared to RAM or a new CPU.
Like it was said in the image, the current plan is to make this R$ 2286,98 purchase but pay it over several months, if paid over the next 12 months the equivalent monthly payments would be around 45 usd, so in an ideal world our patreon income would cover that provided nobody drops support, but if anyone does understandably drop support because things are rough for everyone, we'll be trying to sell one to two commissions per month to cover that expense.
It's been an interesting journey trying to learn something about PC building again, our initial 2012 setup was prebuilt and it's been kept going by adding the current GPU, small SSD, and PSU, but its core is a bulky hard to clean case and a gigabyte motherboard and intel i7 that have been long discontinued. Despite it not being a high end setup by any means my hope is that just the CPU upgrade will be a massive help for our work with bulky art files and a performance boost in games, the RAM replacement should fix the bluescreens windows has been giving us since they've mostly been "Memory Management" and "Critical Structure Corruption", which tells me that those DDR3 sticks are definitely not working like they should anymore. I think that should be everything now, thanks again for reading all this.