Building a decent gaming PC

[1swine1]

Hello, I like to play games and I am planning on buying a new PC in the near future (in about 5 months or even before that).

My current PC is:

Intel i5 2500

XFX Radeon 6950

8 GB of RAM

AsRock P67 Pro

550 W power supply

Dell U2412M (digital)

 

I am planning on playing games like: The Witcher 3, Rainbow six: Siege, MGS: The phantom pain, The division, Evolve...

 

I have a budget of around 800 euros (maybe more).

 

I want to try a NVIDIA card now and the GTX 970 seems like a good card for it's price. I thought to pair it with a Intel i5 processor (probably 4690k) and mediocre other pars (motherboard, power supply, RAM, hard disc).  

 

Do you think it's a good idea to build a whole new PC and sell the current one I have or just to upgrade my current PC?

[DarrenP]

There's honestly no sense in planning a build that far ahead in time, Who knows what will have come out by then. Likely better parts. I'd suggest coming back a few days before you're going to purchase parts. 

[GarnetDevil]

Buy a GTX970, an SSD, another 8GB ram kit and maybe, a PSU should your psu begin to fail, keep everything else intact

[c0d0ps]

Hello, I like to play games and I am planning on buying a new PC in the near future (in about 5 months or even before that).

My current PC is:

Intel i5 2500

XFX Radeon 6950

8 GB of RAM

AsRock P67 Pro

550 W power supply

Dell U2412M (digital)

 

I am planning on playing games like: The Witcher 3, Rainbow six: Siege, MGS: The phantom pain, The division, Evolve...

 

I have a budget of around 800 euros (maybe more).

 

I want to try a NVIDIA card now and the GTX 970 seems like a good card for it's price. I thought to pair it with a Intel i5 processor (probably 4690k) and mediocre other pars (motherboard, power supply, RAM, hard disc).  

 

Do you think it's a good idea to build a whole new PC and sell the current one I have or just to upgrade my current PC?

One good tip that I have gotten for future builds is to wait until you are actually gonna buy it.

Since prices are constantly changed maybe 7-2 days before you buy it is good time to plan for it.

 

I think the best thing is to buy a whole new pc but you may still use some parts from the old one if you want.

For example your ram, so you have 16gb ram or something in your next pc instead of only 8 (I am guessing that you don't do editing and such since you didn't mentioned it but extra free ram is always good).

[SteveGrabowski]

Hello, I like to play games and I am planning on buying a new PC in the near future (in about 5 months or even before that).

My current PC is:

Intel i5 2500

XFX Radeon 6950

8 GB of RAM

AsRock P67 Pro

550 W power supply

Dell U2412M (digital)

 

I am planning on playing games like: The Witcher 3, Rainbow six: Siege, MGS: The phantom pain, The division, Evolve...

 

I have a budget of around 800 euros (maybe more).

 

I want to try a NVIDIA card now and the GTX 970 seems like a good card for it's price. I thought to pair it with a Intel i5 processor (probably 4690k) and mediocre other pars (motherboard, power supply, RAM, hard disc).  

 

Do you think it's a good idea to build a whole new PC and sell the current one I have or just to upgrade my current PC?

 

In five months there will probably be better GPUs available for the $350 a GTX 970 costs now. I would stick with your i5 until Intel comes out with its next revolutionary platform like Sandy Bridge was. Upgrading to Haswell (and most likely Broadwell too) will be a huge waste of money if you're aiming for 60FPS most likely, which you must since you only want to buy one GTX 970. Sandy Bridge i5's are still awesome and still considered Tier 1 gaming CPUs on the Tom's Hardware list.

 

If you're looking to upgrade now though, the 970 is freaking incredible. Pretty much everything is at least 55FPS on ultra on it at 1080p. By June the R9 380x will probably be significantly better and maybe Nvidia will have a cut down GM200 chip that won't be ridiculously expensive (like a full GM200 will likely be).

[1swine1]

Thanks for all the replies. I will probably wait till a week before the purchase of my new PC to decide the parts I will buy and weather or not i should buy a whole PC or upgrade this one.