Looking to upgrade, advice needed

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Been awhile since I bought new parts so looking for some advice, my dilemma is do i just upgrade certain parts of my current system or do i go the full hog and buy a complete system.

anyway i have an asus z971 plus mini itx mobo and an asus strix geforce 970 graphics card and i only have 8gig of ram (was sure i had 16) now don't get me wrong everything is fine with my system and it plays the games (DayZ) i like just fine, but i was looking at a new case and got the bug to upgrade.

with a budget of say 250ish what graphics card would be a good replacement for the 970? bearing in mind my current screen resolution is 2560 x 1440, i would also like to stay with nvidia

or with another budget of £1250 / £1500 what parts or pre built system would you suggest?

also i would like to stick it all in a Phanteks evolv itx glass mini-itx case but this is not a must

thanks
 
What CPU do you have? Is it overclocked? For £250 on a GPU - your best bet would be a used Vega 56 for ~£180 ish... Although if your PC runs the games you want just fine, why bother? :p

But with a £1250-1500 budget on a new rig, you could likely build a nice 3600/5700XT rig for that. What case do you have now? Presume it's Mini ITX, in which case you'd need a new case too.

You could build a new one, sell your old one and offset the cost presumably against the new rig.
 
Vega 56 would be best performing GPU for that price.
Nvidia has only "bigger than 1070 or 1080" marketing number scam 1660 for that price level.

That budget would nicely get also 8 cores/16 threads Ryzen 3700X, 16GB RAM, good size SSD and PSU.
Besides case do you have other parts like SSD which coudl be reused?
 
No point going for a 3700X if all OP does is game, 3600 is plenty powerful.

Example new rig for £1100-1200 region.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,179.92 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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cheers for the replies at the moment i have a bitfenix prodigy case which i am not keen on anymore, ssd's i have lots of :) and cpu is an intel lga1151 i5 4960 skylake, am quite possibly just having a mid life crisis and want to spend some cash :)
 
Easiest option is to just sell up and start again. There will be a huge difference going from that i5 and 970 to a modern Zen2 based CPU with a fast 1440P capable GPU.
 
Sparx said:
No point going for a 3700X if all OP does is game, 3600 is plenty powerful.
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In year next-gen consoles are bringing notable rise to what hardware many games are designed for.
And those consoles with Zen2 based 8 core CPU won't be running all the background bloat of Wintoys10 PC.
 
EsaT said:
In year next-gen consoles are bringing notable rise to what hardware many games are designed for.
And those consoles with Zen2 based 8 core CPU won't be running all the background bloat of Wintoys10 PC.
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And if needed one can easily upgrade and end up spending the same amount, you only need to look how fast the part prices have dropped, and are continuing to drop to see the trend. Effectively you can loan a CPU for about £100 for the whole year, as you should be able to fetch £80 for an R5 3600 in 12 months time, and buy an R7 3700X, or a 4700X for the difference you would have spent in the first place.

£188 - £100 = £80 R5 cost, then sale.
£80 + £131 = £221 R5 sale price plus what youextra you would have spent to get a 3700X

£221 will easily get you a 3700X in 12 months time. :)
 
So if you guys were going to consider an overclockers pre built gaming system and you had £1500 to burn what system would you choose and why, please consider me an idiot when explaining :)

thanks
 
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