Upgrade advice please

[obsweats]

Hi all,

I would appreciate your advice on upgrading my PC. I've had advice from here before on upgrading my graphics card, SSD and PSU and the recommendations have always been spot on.

I'm not really sure where to go next to get the most out of my PC. I was thinking a new processor or maybe new motherboard and RAM? Perhaps both are needed, as the computer is getting on a bit, some of the parts are from the original build in 2012. My budget is very flexible, I was thinking <£600, but happy to spend more if worth it.

My build:
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5-2500k Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics

Motherboard ASUS® P8Z77-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX

Memory (RAM) 8GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)

SSD: Samsung 860 EVO 500 GB SATA 2.5" Internal SSD

Backup HDD: Seagate 2 TB BarraCuda 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive 7200 RPM, 256 MB Cache, SATA 6 Gb/s (just purchased and not installed yet after my old HDD started to fail)

GeForce GTX 970 TURBO OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 12x BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW

Power Supply Superflower Leadex Gold 550W "80 Plus" Power Supply

Processor Cooling INTEL SOCKET LGA1155 STANDARD CPU COOLER

Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO

1440p Monitor

 

[obsweats]

thanks for your reply, I really appreciate it! If I was going to change all of the above, I would probably increase my budget to 800-1000 to make it last a bit longer. Would you change anything from the above basket if so?

 

[obsweats]

Thanks for your advice everyone, I have purchased the basket suggested by tamzzy and have cancelled my order for a replacement HDD. I will get a TLC Sabrent Rocket instead