Should I upgrade my pc?

[Trail Mixorz]

I definitely want to upgrade my pc, but I just don't know when. It seems to still be working strong in most games and gets decent frames on medium/high settings (~40fps BF3, ~100fps COD4, 300+fps CSS :D ). Right now I have the following:

 

-ASUS M4A88T-V EVO/USB3

-AMD Phenom II x6 2.8 OC'd to 3.4

-XFX Radeon HD 5830

-8GB Corsair Dominator GT

-1TB Seagate Drive

-850W Kingston Lazer PSU

-Thermaltake Element T

-Stock CPU Cooler

 

Should I upgrade my system for when BF4 comes out? Or should I go with a new build (haswell i7 and gtx780 build thats a bit pricey)? Thanks!

[calebp123]

I definitely want to upgrade my pc, but I just don't know when. It seems to still be working strong in most games and gets decent frames on medium/high settings (~40fps BF3, ~100fps COD4, 300+fps CSS :D ). Right now I have the following:

 

-ASUS M4A88T-V EVO/USB3

-AMD Phenom II x6 2.8 OC'd to 3.4

-XFX Radeon HD 5830

-8GB Corsair Dominator GT

-1TB Seagate Drive

-850W Kingston Lazer PSU

-Thermaltake Element T

-Stock CPU Cooler

 

Should I upgrade my system for when BF4 comes out? Or should I go with a new build (haswell i7 and gtx780 build thats a bit pricey)? Thanks!

Depends if you want to play the new games at ultra settings. I would upgrade if you wanted to game at ultra but its up to you.

[HirgaLTTki]

Nah, no need to get a 780, a 770 or 7950 would do fine

[s3ns3]

you could upgrade the gpu.

 

 

but you could w8 for them new radeons

[Morfy]

Any i5 will do fine in BF4 with a 770/780/ HD7970

[tedjani]

here's what is a good idea to upgrade

gpu try to get hd 7950 or hd 7970 then upgrade you cpu cooler and overclock it to 3.6GHZ or higher

[Trail Mixorz]

I may upgrade my cpu cooler and gpu, but I want to make my pc future proof, and by getting a new i7 (I want to go intel/nvidia physx) and 780, it would be good for a few more years than if i just get a gpu. I may upgrade though. I definitely want to upgrade to play max settings on future games like bf4. And I do a ton of video and music editing and mixing so i thought the hyperthreading with the i7 would be good over the i5.

[panfriedpuppies]

I'd use that rig to last me till 8xxx and 8xx series GPUs from the green/red teams. Grab a new mobo/processor to go along with it. Everything else could stay, maybe grab an SSD.