Gaming Building £1500 - £1700 Budget

[Zetsumei]

I'm looking for some help in building a new computer for gaming, but is it a good time to get a new system now? should i hold out for some new CPU or GPU? 

 

I'm currently running the following:

 

I5 2500K @ 4.5Ghz

16GB RAM 

Gigabyte Z68A-D3-B3

GTX 760 4GB

 

Windows 8.1

 

samsung evo 840 250GB

samsung evo 840 500GB 

 

AOC G2460PG

Oculus Rift DK2

 

Will the gain in performance be worth the price compared to my current system?

 

Basically went to play The Witcher 3 and only getting about 40-50 

 

Cheers 

[Techinoob]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/pqWKgs

This build fits your budget

[Xaring]

umm, well, you dont have a "HORRIBLE" PC. Maybe upgrading your GPU would suffice.

At least you can re-use the 16GB RAM and SSDs.

 

Try getting a i5-4690K and a 980/980Ti/TItan X

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($229.98 @ NCIX US) 

Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($112.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GB Twin Frozr Video Card  ($549.99 @ Amazon) 

Total: $892.96

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-29 18:13 EDT-0400

 

OR (only if you wanna go full BALLERS.)

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($325.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($112.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB Video Card  ($999.99 @ B&H) 

Total: $1438.97

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-29 18:16 EDT-0400

 

Get a half decent air cooler, forgot to add it  http://pcpartpicker.com/part/be-quiet-cpu-cooler-bk019or http://pcpartpicker.com/part/cooler-master-cpu-cooler-rr212e20pkr2 depending on how much  you wanna overclock.

 

@Zetsumei remember to follow your posts.

[Xaring]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/pqWKgs

This build fits your budget

 

That build is so unballanced

 

Liquidcooled CPU and a MOBO nearly as expensive as the CPU, but only 120GBs of SSD, 8GB of ram?

 

Linus already made clear that liquidcooling is unnecessary, and that you should instead upgrade to a better CPU for more performance.

[Zetsumei]

Is 2 980s worth it?

[Guest]

There is nothing wrong with your i5 2500K. Swapping to an i5 4690K is just spending money for little gain. Just update the graphics card and you should be fine.

[Xaring]

Is 2 980s worth it?

They definitelly are, but I'd wait for the 980Tis to be released.

[AliveGhost13]

Keep your 2500k. Overclock it if it isn't already.

Then, beef up your GPU. 970/980/one of the new cards. A clocked 2500k is still a quality CPU. If anything, drop in a used 2600k, 2700k or 3770k, but that's not really required.

[Zetsumei]

How well would just slapping two 980 ti's on to my current build do? would it be a CPU bottleneck at all or could it be effected by the motherboard?