Upgrade or start from scratch?

[Teraxis]

Budget (including currency): 1000-1500usd

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

Other details: (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I just picked up a new 1080p 144hz Monitor (have two more on the way) I am going to school and starting a career in IT but I have been out of the gaming world for several years. I am married with kids so my going out time is behind me so time to get back to gaming! I have mostly played MMO games which this machine will do, but I want to play more graphically impressive games too. As I said I have a family so funds for fun are limited. So I thought I would see if any of my components are usable in the modern gaming world. Current OS is Linux Ubuntu 20.04 This started life as a windows 7 machine in 2011 or 2012 but it got to a point where it took 5 min or so to load. It runs pretty well on linux.  Might possibly upgrade to windows but I figure I can likely do anything I need to do with a VM.  I have not tried gaming on a VM yet does that work?

 

Case : VENGEANCE® C70 Mid-Tower Gaming Case — Military Green https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Cases/VENGEANCE®-C70-Mid-Tower-Gaming-Case-—-Military-Green/p/CC-9011018-WW

Power Supply: CX750 — 80 PLUS® Bronze Certified Power Supply https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Power-Supply-Units/CX-SERIES/p/CP-9020015-NA

GPU: Asus HD7870 https://www.asus.com/us/Graphics-Cards/HD7870DC22GD5V2/

CPU:  Intel® Core™ i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz × 4 https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/65520/intel-core-i5-3570k-processor-6m-cache-up-to-3-80-ghz.html

Motherboard: MSI MS-7752 ver 1.4

Ram: 16gb (not sure on type atm)

 

Please excuse the Dust this thing has been in mothballs for awhile now!  

 

At least one Fan is dead so I am going to replace that asap.

 

[brob]

An ssd would likely resolve the load issues.

 

Now is not a good time to be getting a new cpu or gpu. Supply is problematic. As a result prices have gone through the roof.

[podkall]

If I remember correctly, CPU can support only one memory type, so is this CPU DDR3 only?

[hirushaadi]

6 hours ago, podkall said:

so is this CPU DDR3 only?

i don't think this cpu supports DDR4

[Teraxis]

Yeah the Ram is DDR3

I added a new 512gb ssd 

as well as another 16gb of DDR3

also upon further inspection I found that I had a couple fans that were completely seized up.  So in the process of installing 4 new 120mm fans.  Upgraded WiFi card to a WiFi 6 with Bluetooth will be going in as well. 

 

Having a bit of an issue with the new os install...  used my usb boot disk to install Ubuntu 20.04.  Install says it was successful however after setting up the boot order in the bios and selecting the SSD, I reboot and end up with just a black screen with a flashing white underscore in the top left.