What to upgrade next?

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Hey guys. I know you probably get a lot of these. But i do need some assistance, as I wish to start upgrading my pc again soon. But im unsure where to start.

Graphics Card- 1280mb GTX 570 GDDR5

Processor- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz

Motherboard- ASROCK H55M-LE

Any help/Suggestions would be awesome!
 
What sort of budget do you have?

Where is you pc struggling?

That i7 is still a great chip. You tried over locking it? You got an aftermarket cooler?

The 570's are still great cards but lacking in the vram department.

Can try and help you depending on how much you have to spend.
 
570 is fine don't change that

I would say buy an SSD first and wait for haswell to launch in in Q2
 
Got quite high budget really

For processor £100-£250
GFX Card- £250-£450
Motherboard- Any price.

Im not very good when it comes down to the technical side of overclocking. Thinking to upgrade to a processor with a speed of 3.2+
 
Ok. Thanks for the help man :). Will definitly be purchasing a couple of those bits you suggested. Plus its my birthday in a months time so would be a perfect chance to get something :D

Thanks again
 
LOL, completely no need to buy whole bunch of gadgets in your case :)

Just change motherboard and that's it. Now you've got H-series which is un-overclockable, and you've got still decent CPU which needs just OC (plus good cooling & pasta). Change it to P55 - it might be a bit tricky as it's hard to get one (on Ebay there's Gigabyte + CPU + RAM for 75 quids so far = you can sell rest of it), and rest of your free money spend to SSD + SATA3 controller eventually.

P.S.
Your old mobo (1156 socket) doesn't support new CPUs (1155 socket).
 
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