Upgrade for gaming for a fairly old system

Muso

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Hi everyone,

My PC specs:

i5 2500K, I have 8 gig Corsair DDR3 1600MHz XMS3 Memory, SSD Drive and GTX 960 2 gig version.

I know it's a fairly old PC. I not too long ago bought the 960 which allowed me to play modern games but I think it wasn't a great buy.

My system is struggling to play some games like battlefield 4 and I think possibly I need to upgrade the graphics card. I'm looking at the 1060 6 gig, can anyone say if this is a good idea or not? When I asked someone from overclockers they mentioned more RAM which I wasn't sure about.

I'm not bothered about playing with super high settings and I game at 1080p which no real ambition to upgrade to anything higher.
 
8gb's of ram is fine for most games. The 2500k is still a very solid i5 especially if you can push it to around 4.5ghz, do you have any OC on it, what is your cooling like?

A 1060 6gb or rx 480 8gb will be a solid upgrade.
 
From your comment about your expectations, the 960 should serve you fine for now.

However if you have an upgrade itch then go for either of the above options. adding more RAM can make your gaming experience more consistent if you are running background tasks, but if you are careful about closing down other programmes before playing games, then 8gb is good for now (also investing in more ddr3 may not be wise when ddr4 is the new standard)
 
If I were you I'd go for a 1060 or 480 like Richthomuk said. Also, I normally find that it's best to have 2x as much RAM as you have VRAM. So a 4GB RX480 should be paired with atleast 8GB Ram.
 
Sorry to Necro the thread but I ended up buying 16 gigs of RAM and it didn't make much difference.

Which 1060 should I get?
 
I'm not keen on getting an AMD card to be honest, had problems with them in the past. I've got a fairly decent case, its fractal design R5 case.

Tried to overclock the CPU In the past, couldn't get it to stay stable kept crashing so am a bit unwilling to push it.
 
If you're looking to overclock at all, you should tell us your PSU wattage.

Particularly as you've been adding power-hungry graphics components.
 
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