Need an upgrade

[Drae58]

Case-NZXT Phantom
CPU-Intel Core i5(Lynnfield) 
Mobo-MSI H57m-ED65
GPU-GeForce GTX 660Ti
RAM- Kingston Hyper X Beast 16g RAM
PSU-Rocketfish 500 watt
HDD-WD Caviar Blue 1TB, WD Caviar Blue 500g(x2)
SDD-Intel SSD 520 Series 180g

Looking to spend maybe between 100$ and  200$ US Dollars?  Any and all suggestions are welcome!

Thanks!

[Moonzy]

welcome to the forums

remember to quote or mention the person you're replying so they will get a notification

 

as for your system upgrade, other than maybe getting a 950, i suppose you should save up and upgrade your whole rig

depending on what you do with it of course

[Drae58]

On 4/15/2016 at 7:14 PM, Moonzy said:

welcome to the forums

remember to quote or mention the person you're replying so they will get a notification

 

as for your system upgrade, other than maybe getting a 950, i suppose you should save up and upgrade your whole rig

depending on what you do with it of course

Gotcha, Thanks!

 

Is it worth to upgrade anything in my system or just wait and save and build completely new?  or recycle maybe the case and a few other pieces?

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, Drae58 said:

Gotcha, Thanks!

 

Is it worth to upgrade anything in my system or just wait and save and build completely new?  or recycle maybe the case and a few other pieces?

you're welcome

 

and you can repurpose most of the things except cpu, motherboard, and gpu

ram can be re-used if you opt for DDR3 cpu, though we're moving to DDR4 now, so you can decide if you wanna save a couple bucks

 

if you wanna use DDR3, haswell processors are still fine

if you wanna use DDR4, skylake chips or wait for AMD Zen or kabylake

 

as for gpu upgrade, i suppose you can see what makes sense when you're picking the parts

[Drae58]

17 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

you're welcome

 

and you can repurpose most of the things except cpu, motherboard, and gpu

ram can be re-used if you opt for DDR3 cpu, though we're moving to DDR4 now, so you can decide if you wanna save a couple bucks

 

if you wanna use DDR3, haswell processors are still fine

if you wanna use DDR4, skylake chips or wait for AMD Zen or kabylake

 

as for gpu upgrade, i suppose you can see what makes sense when you're picking the parts

hows this http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3bVbnQ

 

kind of my ideal upgrades and then use some left over stuff.

 

I am very limited on my knowledge of motheboards and cpu, I mainly just need a gaming rig that can perform at max settings for the now and the future.  

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, Drae58 said:

hows this http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3bVbnQ

 

kind of my ideal upgrades and then use some left over stuff.

 

I am very limited on my knowledge of motheboards and cpu, I mainly just need a gaming rig that can perform at max settings for the now and the future.  

comments:

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1) you dont need an AIO for a locked chip, a hyper 212 evo is good enough

2) get one pair of 16gb ram is enough, unless you need 32gb of ram (i know 99% of the people dont lol)

3) you're getting a z170 board for the locked chip, nothing is wrong and you get to use faster ram, but it costs more than other chipset

4) i recommend waiting for pascal for the gpu, use the 660Ti for now

 

also, with that upgrade, you'll want a beefier psu, your current 500W psu might not be enough for the beast 980ti if you opt for it

 

[Drae58]

3 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

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1) you dont need an AIO for a locked chip, a hyper 212 evo is good enough

2) get one pair of 16gb ram is enough, unless you need 32gb of ram (i know 99% of the people dont lol)

3) you're getting a z170 board for the locked chip, nothing is wrong and you get to use faster ram, but it costs more than other chipset

4) i recommend waiting for pascal for the gpu, use the 660Ti for now

 

also, with that upgrade, you'll want a beefier psu, your current 500W psu might not be enough for the beast 980ti if you opt for it

 

definitely dont need 32g of ram lol, woops, im leading towards waiting for pascal, thanks for the advice/help!