Upgrading hardware :))

Kilau

Kilau

Kilau

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Hi guys, thanks for having me on the forum.

Basically, I use photoshop, manga studio and other art programs like that. I also do quite a lot of gaming on my pc (steam account: forbesbeedie).
I built this rig about 3 or 4? years ago and I'm finding it is now starting to lag a wee bit when being used with art programs.

I recently bought the new COD just to see how it fairs with a newer game and it doesn't play very well unless on lower settings so now I'm thinking its time to upgrade some of the hardware and your suggestions would be fantastic!

I've dumped my cpu-z file here: http://valid.canardpc.com/j8zv8q

My budget is around £500. I just want something that will comfortably run new art programs and will hold a good fps with higher graphics on modern games. Maybe I just need to upgrade my RAM or something (I'm not fantastically knowledgeable with computers) and none of it is overclocked. All suggestions welcomed! Thanks very much in advance.
 
The PSU I have is a Corsair HX650W, case is a Corsair Graphite 600t and all my drives are SATA ( I assume that means Hardrives? Sorry I'm a noob) if you do, then yes they are all SATA.

With the RAM, I have another spare card of it but the mobo didn't seem to support it.

Thanks!
 
Thanks very much Stulid,
could you give me a little bit of information about the benefits of the mobo and card in comparison to my current set up. Also is there anything that is say, slightly more expensive that would give much better performance?

Thanks!
 
Sorry for the bump, decided to upgrade the budget to around £1000.

Cpu, mo bo wise I was think of this bundle: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-012-GI
(Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK - Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K)

And a GTX 970 (need help picking what manufacturer)
or the R9 (the one with 8gb of memory)

I think I should also pick up some ram, what do you guys think? Is there anything better I could pick with the money. Thanks in advance!
 
Which GTX would you recommend? And is that bundle the best bang for my buck?
I was thinking of getting more ram because they're DDR3 and I thought about getting more ram with more power. What do you think?
 
All that comes to about £717 (including RAM) so iv'e got about £280 left. Is there anything else you'd recommend? A SSD or something?
 
I picked the i7 bundle and I do'nt have a windowed case (it's the old Corsair grahite 600t) With the SSD I've still got over £200 left. Do you think I should upgrade my mouse and keyboard? I've got an old logitech MX518 and a crappy logitech compact keyboard.

Anything else you'd recommend?
 
Decided to go for a mouse and keyboard because I'm quite fond of my BENQ. Could you recommend me a cpu fan for this build please
 
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