£400 upgrade

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About 4 years ago I built this PC, intending to upgrade as I went along. I never actually got round to it though, and it's now a fair few years out of date. I want to upgrade it a bit, but I'm also poor!

Current spec is:
Intel i5 2500 1155
Asus P8H67-M-LE motherboard
XMS3 — 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz C9 Memory
1GB XFX HD5850
BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530w
Lian Li A05NB

What can I keep and what do I need to change? I was thinking new motherboard, cpu + gfx?

It mostly gets used for browsing, watching netflix/YouTube and a few games. I'm mostly looking for something to run the new Cities:Skylines!
 
The biggest noticeable improvement you'll get is from adding an SSD as your boot disk. 128G if you're really poor, otherwise go for around 256G. I recommend Samsung.
I'd push the RAM up to at least 8G as well.

Can't see how a new PSU is going to improve anything unless the old one is broken.
 
I would get 8GB of ram and an SSD, wait for AMD 3xx series to come out and buy a new GPU after that, tbh the CPU is ok, is it the 2500k? if so its still basically the same as a 4690K, overclock it to like 4.2+ and you will be laughing. If its just the 2500, its still very competitive.
 
I agree get a bit more ram and SSD you'll notice a nice improvement with just these. Wait for next gen GPUs even if they're nothing special you'll have at least saved a ton on last gen :). I'm still running a 7970 while it may be 'old' it's still got more than enough grunt for the latest games. 280x will be ~£110 when the 3xx series come out(I think).

I assume the psu upgrade was if op intended to get a beefier gpu.
 
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I think the PSU is fine as it is 80+ certified. 8GB of ram, and a 120GB SSD will help. There is no point getting a CPU and Motherboard now IMO, wait for Skylake instead.
 
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