Need upgrade help

[chris247uk]

Hi, I've been wondering whether I should just buy a entirely new gaming PC or just spend as little money as possible and upgrade my current one.. and yeah the second option sounds more appealing.. Here's my gaming pc spec,

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Asus Maximus VII Ranger Motherboard
8 GB DDR3 HYPERX SAVAGE 2133Mhz
Thermaltake Toughpower DPS G 750watt psu 80plus gold < is this enough power?
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB
2TB HDD
Windows 10 64bit

So yeah, just looking at it I'm guessing I need to upgrade my RAM and graphics card.. I guess I just need help with those things? Can anyone suggest a decent but significant upgrade to the GTX 970 that's in a sort of cheap price range? Also I'm having issues finding that exact same RAM module.. I was going to add 8gb of the savage stuff but I can only find it from China ebay or at lower Mhzs, anyone know of a good place to get DDR3 ram? Also can I mix and match ram modules on my motherboard? Or will that cause issues? Should I be aiming for 32gb ram or is 16gb enough? Is there any other hardware I can improve on? Thanks.

 

[chris247uk]

What's your reason to upgrade? I.e what do you want to do that you can't now

Good question.. had to think about that one for a moment.. I suppose I just want to play the latest games on the max settings, I'm seeing a lot of modern games lately that require recommended specs of 16GB+ ram and I'm seeing graphics cards that have gone 2 generations ahead of mine. Had this PC for something like 4-5 years now, figured I'm due for an upgrade? Maybe? I'm usually playing games on consoles but it would be nice to have a beefy gaming pc on the side. But if people think the 970 is still great, I suppose I'll stick with it.