Starting to Slow Down. Full upgrade?

Soldato
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Hello, me again.

My system was built in summer 2011, so it's getting on a bit. It's currently:

Intel i5 2500k @ 4.5ghz
MSI P67A-GD53 Mobo
Powercolour R9 280X 3gb
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey (4x4gb; 16gb total)
Corsair HX 750w PSU
1x WD Caviar Green 2gb HDD
Dell 23" U2311H Ultrasharp monitor

I fairly recently upgraded the GFX which helped a lot with games. Im not getting any gaming slow down but i'm only gaming at 1920x1080 on a 23".

Windows however takes an absolute age to get up and running.

Is it worth doing a full rebuild? I'd rather not to be honest. I was thinking maybe a 120gb SSD for the OS and a few key programs (photoshop etc)?

I wouldn't mind going for a 27" Monitor, is that 1440? Would the rig handle that ok?
 
Ok thanks guys. I'll get a couple of SSDs and see if that gets me through. Then maybe next year i'll go for a full reboot so i can up that screen size to something epic.
 
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