Perhaps time for an upgrade? Spec in thread.

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So basically, I've been running out of hard drive space recently and had to keep deleting TV shows all the time that I've just watched and then a few days ago I had the urge to buy some new parts.

My current spec is in my siggy; so I was going to buy a bigger hard drive and was thinking it's time for a SSD as well. And since I've been a bit out of the loop the last year 1/2 or so about the latest technologies I came across the Z68 motherboard that makes SSDs a lot more efficient/faster, which basically made me want to build a new PC entirely :p

So I started looking around in the forums seeing what's what in PC parts today and started building a new spec and this is what I came up with:
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But then I think I might just be having an urge to upgrade since I haven't in a while and I should I should just get the 2TB HDD with a SSD and be done with it, what do you guys think? Was also toying with the idea of an external HDD as well.

Note: I don't tend to play the current released games I'm pretty much just playing Counter Strike, maybe some WoW although the new Battlefield looks pretty interesting but I think it would tear up my PC a new one atm. And the reason for the amount of memory in the spec is because there's an old MMO that I play you can load unlimited clients of on the same machine and it completely takes up all the memory when I go over like 12, so pretty much the more ram the better for me.
 
Thanks for the advice guys!

I'm on a 19" CRT for the 120HZ and I haven't decided to get a LCD 120HZ just yet, typically on newer games I would game at 1280x1024 or so. So perhaps I don't need a super graphics card, but like I said I would like to play BF3 when it comes out and be as smooth as possible for competitive play!
 
Thanks for the advice guys, this is what I have now:


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 570 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £254.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £173.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £161.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £144.98
1 x XFX 850W Black Edition Modular Power Supply £122.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD2002FAEX) £109.99
1 x Cooler Master HAF 922 Case - Black £82.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £53.99
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3) £50.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222AL/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,191.59 (includes shipping : £14.75).



I decided I don't mind paying the extra £40 or so for a 7200RPM WD, as opposed to 5400.

But I'm still not sure if I should bother getting a whole new PC. If I was to get the WD HDD and the Crucial SSD, would they run crappy in comparison to on the Z68? Pretty sure my mobo doesn't even support SATA3 atm :(
 
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