First Upgrade since 2008, advice requested.

[Snypa]

Hello,

Here is my current system:

MSI P7N Diamond (or something like that lol)
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Generic 8 GB RAM (4x2GB)
GeForce 560 ti 1GB
60 GB SSD,
1 TB Raid (2x500MB (via mobo drivers (possibly nforce?)))
500 MB HDD
Powering 2 23" monitors (19xx by xxxx resolution, I forget the exact one)
Modular Powersupply, forget which one but is decent and unless the pins have changed it wont need upgraded.

Some oh the parts have been modified in recent years, such as the graphics card a year or so ago, added an ssd a while back also).

I have a budget of around £600 to upgrade maybe next month.

So I am very out of date with my knowledge of hardware thesedays and here are my questions.

Should I upgrade the mobo/ram/cpu with the money - leaving a decent bottleneck with my GPU which I can fix later - 3-6 months time maybe?

If I do that should I get a second 560 ti and sli it in the mean time?

Should I just scrap everything and start from scratch?

Should I just wait til I can afford a much better GPU and CPU/MOBO/RAM at the same time - will be several months probably?

Finally my raid has all my multimedia and documents, this cannot be lost. Because the raid is set up via the mobo is this going to be an issue, will I need to by a 1TB hardrive to transfer the files first?

Sorry for any vague info I am at work.

Any help very welcome.

 

[Grimley]

I'll kick off this one

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 760 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £191.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £185.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £104.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £49.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £49.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £26.99
Total : £621.34 (includes shipping : £9.50).



You really want to have some sort of backup with Raid, I dabbled with Raid a few years ago & lost a fair bit of data due to the motherboard going pop.

I would say that OCUK's supply of Bargain 670's & 680's will have gone by the end of this month, Hence the spec of the 760. I'd go for a single card TBH, SLi can have its fair share of problems.

 

[Snypa]

Thank you for the feedback and links. I am under the impression that the Geforce x60 cards are generally mid range? I have always had mid range cards before (hence the 560) but this time around I would like to go more high range. For that purpose I don't mind gimping the game performance by keeping the current card and getting a high range one later.

 

[Cleisthenes]

What about this? More of an AMD build. Doesn't include any ram, but you can always buy some more later. It includes a 7970 which is pretty high end, I don't know if you are expecting something around a 780?

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H797F3G2M) £249.95
1 x Asus M5A99X PRO R2.0 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £54.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler *Manufacturer Refurbished Unit - 90 Day Guarantee £44.99
Total : £603.36 (includes shipping : £11.25).