Where should I upgrade - if at all?

[EddScott]

It's been a while since I upgraded my gaming PC.


Currently:-

i5 2500K 3.30Ghz (2011)
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 Motherboard (2011)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB 1600MHz (2011)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 4096MB GDDR5 (2014)

Keyboard is a ducky shine, case is a coolermaster (the cool military green one) razor mouse and a Hazro 27" monitor. OS is on a 128GD SDD and everything else on a 1.5TB HDD. All these are fine TBH. The CPU is cooled with an off the shelf corsair water cooling unit.

For all it's sins, I really like the look of No Mans Land and I've found more modern games are requiring me to back the settings off. It's taken a while considering the "brains" are 5 years old. Helped by the GPU I guess.

So, being lazy and rather looking myself, can I get some idea as to what upgrade paths I could take? Prefer to stick with Intel and Nvidia. Budget max £750 - CPU, GPU, RAM and Mobo. Not sure whether the drives need upgrading but wouldn't have thought so and monitor is fine to me. I guess I could get a 4K monitor at some point in the future although I'm stuck with 27".

 

[EddScott]

Thanks everyone for the replies.

Although my system is setup for easy OC'ing I've never really bothered. I did push the CPU up to 4.5Ghz and it seems fine. Temps at full chat went into the low 80s but I had the fans turned way down.

The 760GTX on the other hand was fairly reluctant to OC using Afterburner. I fiddled with it for a bit and Heaven either ran or it crashed. Tried a little FO4 and it crashed even with just a mild OC so I've taken it back to stock.

I see the 980Ti is like £320 but with the 1070s starting at £360, I'm happy to go the extra £40.

I'll do this first then look at changing the ram to 16GB although I think the Mobo only takes up to 2400 DDR3 so I don't have to go for the more expensive memory at the moment.

 

[EddScott]

My PSU is an OCZ 600W. Will that be enough?

Showing my ignorance but why isn't RAM so important for gaming?

Is RAM useful for pictures? I use Lightroom for processing pics but not on a grand scale.