Advice needed - time to upgrade?

Zoroaster

Zoroaster

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I'm hoping the friendly people here will be able to solve my current situation!

I bought my current PC from Overclockers a few years ago and it has been the best purchase I have ever made. It has never crashed once and has been the best £800 I have ever spent.

It is a i5 750@ 4ghz (I think it was called the Titan Exodus at the time) with 4gb of memory and a GTX 670.

My computer is used for playing a small number of games, mostly World of Warcraft (95% of its use), but also Path of exile and Hearthstone. Not the most demanding selection of software, and I'm well aware that I have no use for an i7 with GTX Titan.

I think my current problem is the low amount of memory my system has. WoW uses up about 1.5gb and If I have Chrome open with 10-15 tabs (which is common for me) then It can start to run dry. I also use Adobe Premiere a lot, which is a memory demon, and so is Path of Exile.

Are my issues purely memory based?
Do I sacrifice the custom overclock and simply upgrade my memory?
Or is it time for a full upgrade?
Going from my overclocked i5 to a current generation i5, do I have much to gain?

I have no problem spending a grand on a full upgrade (3 years is a good lifecycle) but would £60 on new memory serve me just as well?

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Any advice would be very much appreciated.
 
Jumping generations from i5 to i5 will need you a lot of extra performance, not just on clock speed but memory bandwidth too.

Question, do you have 32bit or 64 bit OS?

Full specs of your systems would be good too :D
 
Trying to find my email from 2010!

Its the "Titan Exodus" Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz @ 4.00GHz Quad Core DDR3 System
Corsair GS600 power supply
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel
ASUS P7P55D-E Motherboard
Crucial C30 128mb ssd
Windows 7 64bit
Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2GB GDDR5

As I said above, its a beautiful machine and runs great. But with the memory requirement of todays games (at least the ones I play) and my ADHD 20-chrome-tab-browser-disorder, it can feel a little low on memory at times. I know that WOW in particular is a friend of the high GHz processor, so I would hate to destroy the overclock for extra memory, and I dont want to risk bricking it by re-overclocking myself (although I'm qualified in IT and im sure I could if I felt the need)
 
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64 bit sweet!

An easy port of call would be to upgrade the memory to an 8GB or 16GB kit as you will be able to use that in a newer Z87 build.

The extra capacity should not affect the overclock as long as you do not increase the amount of DIMMs used.
 
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