When to upgrade?

[Kenjiin]

This is more out of curiosity than anything else, but when do you guys thing it would be majorly beneficial to upgrade my CPU? To Haswell etc

I build my system in Feb last year and haven't really kept all that upto date with the going's on of the PC, but after the hype of my PS4 dying down I've slowly made my way back lol.

I overclockered my i5 3570k to 4.5. Honestly can't remember what stock was but I'm sure you all do lol (3.4 maybe?) Build is in sig.

I wouldn't be able to afford a really overhaul until the end of the year anyways, and my comp still performs we'll right now. As I said, I'm more just curious! Obviously I could pick up a new GPU anytime and see an increase in performance, but anything else right now?

 

[Kenjiin]

Nope, nothing that wouldn't be expected with my GPU. It still holds up very well even in demanding games. My friend just started building again and I caught the bug, all I could bring myself to do was buy a new mouse though, it seems to take whatever I throw at it at the moment within reason.

I was just wondering as to where I stand 'on paper' today, because I really haven't been paying attention to new tech aside from the Haswell releases.

*SSD is something I need to look into. Decent one took me waaaay over budget last year

 

[Kenjiin]

Thanks guys! Completely wrong sub forum to ask this in, but do any of you have any good, decently priced SSD's to get?

 

[Kenjiin]

Thanks guys, I'll have to have a look into that. Not entirely sure how to go about installing my OS and most played games on it. I've never had two sources of local memory before

Also would installing an SSD effect my CPU overclock in anyway? At a guess I'd say it won't but I'm not sure if it would have any effect on settings etc, or is that all saved to BIOS?