What should I upgrade

[Lolzious]

What do you recommend I upgrade first? I have about $200 I'm willing to spend. Specs are as following:

 

CPU: AMD A8-5600k-Trinity Quad Core @3.6ghz

RAM: 8gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz (Blue)

Motherboard: MSI-A88X-G43 Military Class

VGA: AMD Radeon HD 5770 XFX 1gb, 860mhz

Case: Velocity-FTC Aurora, falling apart

BootDrive: 150gb HDD

Storage: 1x 320gb 3.5" 1x 500gb 2.5", 1x 500gb 3.5"

Cooling: Stock CPU, front 140mm, rear 120mm.

PSU: Dynex 520watt

 

I do moderate gaming, Farcry3, ETS2, San Andreas, Minecraft.I'm also hoping to play FarCry4, GTA5, etc.

 

All replies are appreciated!! Thanks!

[Clyne]

I see you have no SSD....you should get one, it'll boost up your pc performance. 

[j.dirona]

defs new GPU you need it get a 970 you'll be soooo happy with it

but yeah after that i'd say a SSD

[DeViLzzz]

I say take that $200 and put it away in the bank or a piggy bank in your house and save up more money before you do an upgrade.

[Lolzious]

I see you have no SSD....you should get one, it'll boost up your pc performance. 

I have a 250gb Kingston SSD in my laptop. I'm thinking about swapping that for a 500gb SSHD from Seagate.

[Clyne]

I have a 250gb Kingston SSD in my laptop. I'm thinking about swapping that for a 500gb SSHD from Seagate.

Wait, are you gonna put your SSD in your desktop or SSHD on your Desktop?

[Lolzious]

Wait, are you gonna put your SSD in your desktop or SSHD on your Desktop?

SSD, obviously. Haha

[General_Pox]

Moar lighting.

[-ism]

Go on ebay and get a GTX 680. There are reference ones for less than $200. Yeah it will be loud but it will be worth the upgrade. Right now I see a 680 2GB from EVGA for a mere $153. And those are buy it now prices

[LRC350]

I would go with a SSD for sure OR buy a new videocard.

[aidenrelkoff]

defs new GPU you need it get a 970 you'll be soooo happy with it

but yeah after that i'd say a SSD

a 970 would be GREAT! now where could he get one for $200?....

[j.dirona]

a 970 would be GREAT! now where could he get one for $200?....

lol oops well maybe a 760 instead or just save up more of that dough

[Mistersprinkles]

Well, you're on FM2 so that means you're pretty screwed unless you ditch your CPU AND mobo and start fresh. With FM2 the best you can get is an Athlon 860K which is still a joke of a CPU and is just an A10 APU with no GPU cores. 

 

I suggest you keep saving your money for now. Get a cheap H97 board and an i5 4460 when you can afford it. Then get a GTX 970. '

 

You will also want a new power supply as you are running a time bomb piece of junk, I'm sorry to say. Don't put a nice CPU and a nice GPU on a junk PSU.

[Sandvich]

the psu first then cpu, a gtx 970 will bottleneck on your cpu.