Thinking about upgrade (£400)

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I built my PC about 5 years ago and since then I only upgraded to 560ti. I don't game as much as I used to back then and to be honest it can still play most of my games at medium to high settings. I use my PC from time to time to work from home, doing CAD, mostly construction drawings but some 3d modelling as well.

Ideally I want to make it faster but also quitter so I'm after graphics card that can beat my ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II. I want to get SSD and ideally that means new motherboard with SATA-III. Would you recommend upgrading my CPU at the same time? At the moment it's running at stock but I had it stable @3.8ghz so I could always overclock it again.

Budget up to £400 for GFX, mobo, ssd and perhaps CPU. I have no preference over Intel/ AMD or Nvidia/AMD. I have Corsair H50 so I shouldn't need a cooler?

So OcUK what can give me best increase in performance?

Thanks
 
RJC said:
Done a spec below, you can re-use your current cooler:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Boost OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £149.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £109.99
1 x Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £67.99
Total : £417.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).

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This is a good lot, should be able to sell current stuff for a bit to cover it.

Does your old board use DDR2? If so you'll need to buy new memory also.

EDIT: No, don't worry saw it doesn't.
 
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