Time for an upgrade?

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I've been looking at getting a new SSD/NVMe drive (discussed on another thread) but that has got me thinking about seeing if I could do with a general system overhaul as I've not really upgraded anything in a while. I've listed my current spec below and would welcome some suggestions on whether I should upgrade anything or stick with what I have for a bit longer.

I have quite an extensive Steam library (approx 1500) so play quite a variety of games from FPS, strategy,simulation etc and also have an HTC Vive which sees quite a lot of use.

Motherboard: MSI X99A SLI PLUS (Haswell E)
CPU: Intel I7-5820K
GPU: Asus GeForce GTX 1080Ti "Founders Edition"
RAM: 16GB DDR4 (2x 8GB @ 1200Mhz)
Monitors: 27" AOC AG271G (G-Sync 144Hz) & 27" BenQ XL2720Z 144Hz
OS: Windows 10 on a Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500GB
Storage: 120GB OCZ Vertex2 & 6TB Western Digital HDD
 
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Definitely no sense to upgrade at least graphics card.
You won't be getting much faster card no matter what kind arm, boths legs and buttrape price you pay.

On CPU side you would possibly have some kind upgrade choises.
If that CPU is running at stock, its single core speed is behind today's level and six cores is pretty much basic level now with high end being double.
 
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Everything is running at stock at the moment. I know I can get a little more out of it by overclocking but I've not bothered doing that for a while. I'm still tinkering with the idea of getting a bigger SSD so I can have more games installed on it, but just looking at options in that regard.
 
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That ssd is not only small but boy is it old. Get a new ssd not only for speed and storage capacity but I would question how much life it has left. I had 90gb vertex 2 or 3 that died on my dad's pc a while back. Not saying that will happen to you but it is about 9 years old now and ssd reliability has improved a lot since then.

Try getting a 1tb 2.5 / NVMe ssd. Prices are great atm and your steam library is only gonna get bigger ; )
 
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Tell me about it, I'm surprised the OCZ drive isn't dead. Its got about 38000 hours powered on time. But it does at the moment to bung some games on, probably keep it until it eventually dies.
 
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