Upgrade from 2500K thoughts?

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Evening All,

In a bit of a predicament at the moment my system is as follows:

I5 2500K at 3.5ghz
8gb Corsair Ram
850watt black edition power supply,
500gb HD
64GB SSD (purely for OS)
nvidia 1080 gpu
Windows 7.

As you can tell I have had the system for around 7 years now and have been upgrading the GPU as and when required. I know my HDDs are on the way out now with loading times etc and feel like an upgrade is long overdue. Ranging between £600-£800 to spend what would your advice be? I know prices are a bit crazy with RAM and GPUs at the moment but thankfully I have the 1080 from a bargain late last year from the MM.

Wait or buy?

I have the monitor and peripherals I would just need the new tower with windows 10.

Thanks in advance.

4Play
 
Get an SSD and overclock the 2500k. A stock 2500k is a sad 2500k, given how easily it can hit 4.7ghz
And get another 8gb ram on the cheap from the mm?
 
Buy a £30-40 CPU cooler, overclock to 4.5-4.7 then see if your happy with just doing that. Might be worth buying some more ram to upgrade to 16gb. Also change the HDD to an SSD, Samsung are great for ssd's.

Edit: windows 10 on your SSD would be worth doing I personally found it better than w7 in terms of performance.
 
bakes0310 said:
Buy a £30-40 CPU cooler, overclock to 4.5-4.7 then see if your happy with just doing that. Might be worth buying some more ram to upgrade to 16gb. Also change the HDD to an SSD, Samsung are great for ssd's.

Edit: windows 10 on your SSD would be worth doing I personally found it better than w7 in terms of performance.
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Thanks for the replies everyone. I was thinking of doing what you suggested Bakes so that I could upgrade the other parts in the future, so basically buying a new SSD and windows 10.
 
CPU cooler you should be able to take with you for a new build, may have to get a bracket for it but they usually are free if you send proof to a manufacturer.

Ram isn't it DDR 3 so that won't be coming with you to a new build as we're on ddr4.

SSD and windows 10 that's a winner for taking across.

You can probably upgrade all this for you current build for about less than £300 depending on how big you want your SSD to be.

Also may want to look for some better Tim for your heatsink and if you look on mm or eBay you could get a good deal on a 2700k then you are laughing for a good year.
 
I'm the same, 2500k @ 4.3, 8gb ram, couple of SSds.
So glad I bought a 1070 and dell 27" 1440p gsync monitor last October.. prices are crazy now..

But for what I do , the system is not struggling so even coffeelake or ryzen2 I'm not sure its worth it just yet..
 
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