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Okay, so since Christmas is coming up, and my birthday is in January, my parents have been asking what I want for my presents. Well, since I don't know anything in specific I want besides a new stereo for my car, I said money from everyone. I just started working at Target and aside from insurance, car payments, and phone bills I will have the rest to save up. I was wondering if it would be worth spending $1k or so for this upgrade? I will be selling quite a few of my old parts to my friend to get him into PC gaming, roughly $230 worth, to lower the cost to $780ish. Here is my current build: 

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/StryderXCVI/saved/4gxTwP

 

This is what I was looking to upgrading to: 

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/StryderXCVI/saved/wF7MnQ

 

I left out all the extra parts in my build because they were meaningless to look at lol.

This will be the last of the parts I buy for my PC till I'm out of college, as I'm moving to Georgia next year to live with my girlfriend and will need as much money as I can for rent and utilities. I wanted to get my PC ready for the next 3-4 years without having to worry about dropping below High settings and maintaining 60FPS @ 1080p on a single monitor. I figure I should be good, but just thought I'd ask what you guys thought. Is this upgrade worth it or should I leave it as is? 

 

What will be getting upgraded is:

NZXT Phantom to NZXT Phantom 530 (This Phantom is hitting the end of it's lifespan, it was given to me for free from girlfriend's dad, great guy!)

1x8GB Kingston HyperX RAM to 2x8GB Kingston HyperX RAM 

A 240GB Intel 730 SSD (extremely reliable, and I've never experienced an SSD before)

FX6300 to i7 4790k

ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0 to Z97 MSI Gaming 7

Hyper 212 EVO to NZXT Kraken X61

Sapphire Tri-X R9 290 to 2-way CF Sapphire Tri-X R9 290s

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change the ssd for a mx100 256gb :P

 

PS: your PC will not run the game in 4 year with only 4gb of GDDR5... In COD AW I can't max out the game... my R9 290 have not enough of ram. My advice is keep the cash of the 2nd 290, and in  the future (2 years), sell your 1st 290 and buy a 490 :P

 

If you plan to keep the PC 4 year, buy a swiftech AIO (the pump is more reliable)

 

The bump to the 4790k is great.

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COD AW is a very unoptimized game 

One of the better recent releases.

Do not  as I  do, and  not  as I say. Instead do as you may..

 

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