Bang for buck component upgrade- need advice!

[claypigeon101]

Hi guys,
really quick one here. I have a budget of £300 and I want to bring my computer out of 2009...

Relevant specs
PhenomII 965, XFX 5870
MA790FX, 6GB DDR2
Two average HDDs

This system can play everything at 1920 okay-to-great. But I want to max out BF4, the new Far Cry, turn up the Metro games higher... sort of thing. What would you guys recommend to upgrade, if I have a max of only 200-300?

I was considering one of the cheapest options- just CFing my 5870 with a second hand card. My only issue with this is there are games like GTA which I love but simply will not play well with AMD systems. Got to be NVIDIA. So a GPU upgrade may be on the cards. But if I invest in something like a GTX770 will my DDR2 and 965 hold it back?

Any ideas? I'd love to hear your advice.
Thanks

 

[teppic]

For these kinds of games the CPU is ok for now, but you really should overclock it. I'd go for a decent graphics card (forget crossfire with the old one). You'd get a massive improvement in most FPS games, and you can upgrade the base system later whenever you want to.

Maybe a 280X card, and a 120gb SSD to speed up load times. There aren't any problems with AMD GPUs.