Time to upgrade, £800 budget

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Time to upgrade, £1000 budget

It's time to upgrade my 3 year old PC and I'd like some advice on what to go for. I'll be using it for occasional photoshop and video editing and some gaming, although not the latest AAA games, as well as general browsing.

I don't need an HDD as I recently got a new SSD but I might as well upgrade everything else. Budget is around £1000

My PC currently sits on a hanger under my desk but that doesn't have room for a full tower. It wouldn't be a big deal to move the PC onto the floor if I got a full tower but are there any advantages to go for a full tower instead of a midi (other than more room).

Final piece of info that I think may be relevant I have a Dell 27" monitor at 2560 x 1440 resolution.

-e- budget increased
 
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Other than the hard drives and the DVD (if I decide I want to keep it) I doubt anything is re-useable. But current specs are:

Antec 200 Two Hundred Case
AMD Athlon II X4
MSI 880GMA motherboard
ATI Radeon HD 7850 graphics card
Samsung SH-S223CBEBE 22x DVD±RW
Samsung SpinPoint 1TB HDD
Crucial 500GB SSD
2 x 2GB Patriot Viper DDR3 1600MHz sticks and 2 x Crucial 4GB sticks RAM
EVGA 500W 80 Plus PSU

I've upped my budget a bit as well, I think £800 was a little low for the kind of system I'd like. And as I use my PC for work as well as play it's not like the money will be wasted on something that isn't used.
 
£1,000 but you don't need it for serious AAA gaming, with just casual image & video editing?

I would save yourself some cash and not spend that much money, then.

That said, if you really must - I'd get something 4k capable, as the budget would stretch.

DVD/OS/SSD/HDD/PSU and case is fine to recycle...

Something like this?:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £980.97
(includes shipping: £11.10)
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Or, go cheaper, but include a 4k display or other components...

Depends what you want to keep?
 
I'd prefer to get a new PSU as the one I have isn't modular and I'd like one that is. But I will just re-use the rest.

What would be a cheaper alternative to that spec? Something less capable of the occasional tasks of image / video editing and more for what I'll be using the PC for every day browsing / gaming.
 
If it is only for occasional editing and mostly browsing/gaming then the Haswell i5 is still a capable performer and will last a while (still on one myself and get on fine when editing in Vegas/After Effects)

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £763.20
(includes shipping: £12.30)
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Under budget and very capable gaming machine. The GPU fits (just - case will take up to 317.5mm and the GPU is 305mm)
 
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