Upgrade time

[wavemachine]

Hi All,

I am now looking to upgrade after nearly 5.5 years, my current system is:-

Motherboard:- Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
CPU:- I7 920 Bloomfield coloed by a corsair hydro sealed unit
Memory:- 12GB (3 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB Single DDR3 1333 MT/s (PC3-10600))
GPU: KFA2 GTX 760 OC (Just bought that so not looking to replace it)
Samsung EVO 250GB SSD and various hard drives (1TB, 2TB)
PSU: Cooler master M700 (700 watt)

My PC is used for a bit of casual gaming put primarily photoshop (semi pro photographer), lightroom and some video editing so I need to keep a decent amount of RAM.

The post on my Gigabyte board does seem to take about 20 seconds so I am looking for something that posts a bit quicker there doesn't seem to be anyway of speeding that up.

Can I re-use my RAM or am I better replacing it?

My budget is about £400, I am so out of touch now I need some recommendatiuons, I am looking to keep it all at stock speed.

Thanks

 

[Danny75]

What case do you have?

 

[wavemachine]

Antec 902 v2 IIRC

 

[Randomface74]

Is your CPU overclocked?

Still a perfectly good system IMO - I'm running something similar and it owns every task.

I guess if you really wanted to do something it'd be a mobo/cpu/ram upgrade, but I'm not convinced it's necessary (otherwise I would have done it too).

I'd either:
- save the money for now
- look at peripherals, new screen/kb/mouse/speakers?

 

[wavemachine]

Thanks for the reply, machine is currently running at stock speeds.

TBH I usually upgraded every couple of years, after 5 years assumed it was probably time however if I am not going to notice much improvment then will hold fire for now maybe upgrade my Samsung LCD to a nice LED to match my other monitor.