New to OC and upgrading components

Jagerfiend

Jagerfiend

Jagerfiend

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Hello, I'm new to this site and to building systems in general and was wondering if anyone would be able to give me a guide as to what I should upgrade to etc.
I bought an Alienware Aurora R4 end of last year and I am looking to upgrade it's parts to improve performance as I'm getting fps issues from games. Mainly play games such as BF4, WoW, and most recently GTA V.
My system specs are:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4820K CPU @ 3.70GHz
AMD Radeon(TM) R9 270
ASETEK LIQUID COOLER
HARD DRIVE : 1TB SATA 6GB/S (7200RPM)
MEMORY : 8192MB (4X2GB) 1600MHZ DDR3
Windows 8.1

Not sure if those are all that I need to post but I can post more specs if needed. Any help would be great! Cheers in advance
 
Thank you!
My PSU is an 875W
I run my system off a 50" tv as my monitor broke when I was moving house.
In terms of overclocking the cpu I haven't touched a thing on the system since I bought it as I'm new to it all really.
As for SSD's, I have a couple of old hard drives as memory backups thats it. Sorry if I'm a bit vague or unclear with my computer specifications, as I said im completely new to this so not very 'aware' of what info is needed really
 
Oh man that is much more affordable than what I thought! That's fantastic, thank you!
For that SSD, would I need a case for it to fit the system? The drive is a slide in port not a screw in kinda thing?
 
ah still at a cheap price. That's great, thank you for the info, it's greatly appreciated. In terms of the GFX card, if I have two installed does it make any difference or would the new one invalidate the old one?
 
no no, if I were to buy the card you recommended, and add it to my system with the current 270x, would it cancel the 270x out or would they both work together to improve graphics?
 
ah okay then thats cool! Just wondering :) That's great thank you kindly for being patient and so helpful! I'll lob the old 270x on ebay or something. thanks mate :) Massively appreciated!
 
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