First Upgrade Advice

Autopzylocked · 26 Sep 2018 at 15:33

Hello all, built a budget/mid range gaming rig few years back and thought it was time for a small upgrade. For around £500 where would the money be best invested?

CPU & Motherboard
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor
Gigabyte Z87X-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Thermalright HR-02 Macho CPU Cooler
GPU
KFA2 GeForce GTX 970 "Hall of Fame Edition" 4096MB GDDR5
PSU
SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold"
RAM
Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit
SSD
Plextor M5S 256GB Solid State Drive
Case
Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case

Much Thanks!

Distracted · 26 Sep 2018 at 15:40

What is your intended use for the system?

Are you doing anything with it at the moment where you feel it struggles?

If you're gaming, what games do you play and at what resolution?

orbitalwalsh · 26 Sep 2018 at 16:01

monitor res, if 1080p 60hz might want to think about 1440p 60hz/144hz or 1080p 144hz .

logical step for more fps is GPU. but if your playing games like BF then you may wish to add in a second hand i7 K and overclock it

Autopzylocked · 26 Sep 2018 at 22:16

It's only used for gaming, pretty much anything that is newly released like BF and Total War games.

Currently using a 1440p 60hz monitor

NovaKill4 · 27 Sep 2018 at 09:37

orbitalwalsh said:
logical step for more fps is GPU. but if your playing games like BF then you may wish to add in a second hand i7 K and overclock it

This!

Quartz · 27 Sep 2018 at 09:45

GTX 1070 Ti or AMD Vega. Money left over can be spent on an extra 8 GB of RAM.

Autopzylocked · 9 Oct 2018 at 09:50

orbitalwalsh said:
monitor res, if 1080p 60hz might want to think about 1440p 60hz/144hz or 1080p 144hz .

logical step for more fps is GPU. but if your playing games like BF then you may wish to add in a second hand i7 K and overclock it

Thanks for the advice ended up going down this route as a stop gap before overhauling the system next year.

orbitalwalsh · 9 Oct 2018 at 10:35

Autopzylocked said:
Thanks for the advice ended up going down this route as a stop gap before overhauling the system next year.

If you went for a monitor, will easily last a good decade hopefully

alex crossland · 9 Oct 2018 at 18:37

always say gpu would be best to upgrade first.