Opinions on what to upgrade!

Qitarah

Qitarah

Qitarah

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I need to upgrade my graphics card, and I've planned on upgrading to a 290. However I've been thinking of doing a complete overhaul. Problem is I've got around £400, so any complete overhaul would require selling old parts to put towards anything else.

I've currently got a i7 950 @ 3.8 (can do 4), x58-ud3r, 6 gig of 1600 corsair, vapor-x 5870, a 650w tx corsair and a samsung evo ssd.

What do you guys think would be the best bet out of these two scenarios?

Buy a 290 and wait till next gen to upgrade everything else.

Or

Buy a i7 haswell, motherboard, ram and sell current mobo/CPU/ram/graphics card and buy the cheapest 280x (I think I can get around £200-£250 for current parts).

I'm leaning towards the full overhaul, but it is a major hassle selling all the old parts I guess.

Opinions?

Thanks.
 
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I would suggest just a GPU upgrade.

There is plenty of life left in it I think. What resolution do you game at?

Id spend the money on a 290 or a 780 and wait a generation to upgrade the rest.
 
I only play at 1080p. I guess it makes the most sense just going with the gpu, less hassle too.

Mostly I think it's the upgrade itch really, after recently building two high end rigs for girlfriend and her brother I mainly just want to have a new rig to mess around with really!

Might just raid the savings and go for it!
 
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