playanygame Upgrade or newbuild

[justjake]

Looking at upgrading my Windows 7 Gaming rig, spending no more than £700 in the UK.

 

I want to make the biggest difference to my system. I'm on mechanical drives atm so an SSD (pci if I can) would make a big difference. From what I understand my GPU is the current bottleneck so I'd imagine upgrading that? If I need another CPU i'd imagine i'd be needing another mobo so I'd may as well re-adjust my criteria (maybe even wait) and go about getting new everything at a later date.

 

Basically I have a rig where a few points are showing their age, mainly lacking in an SSD and a top range GPU. I want to, within reason, not worry about system requirements for a while.

 

The specs are:

 

2 monitors atm, one HDMI second is vga/dvi, HD. Possibly a 4K in the future but I'd imagine all that may be assumed anyway.

MOBO - ASUSTeK P8z68
CPU - i7 2600K LGA1155 socket
GPU - Geforce 760
RAM DDR3 16GB 667MHZ (DDR3 64bit 240 pin socket)

PSU: CX600M Corsair

 

My HDD's are a 500GB and 1TB drives and I have a NAS server too not really relevant.

 

Thank you in advance for your help.

[3 Lions]

Upgrade the GPU to either a GTX 1060 6GB or GTX 1070 8GB.

[grayblizzard]

1 minute ago, justjake said:

Looking at upgrading my Windows 7 Gaming rig, spending no more than £700 in the UK.

 

I want to make the biggest difference to my system. I'm on mechanical drives atm so an SSD (pci if I can) would make a big difference. From what I understand my GPU is the current bottleneck so I'd imagine upgrading that? If I need another CPU i'd imagine i'd be needing another mobo so I'd may as well re-adjust my criteria (maybe even wait) and go about getting new everything at a later date.

 

Basically I have a rig where a few points are showing their age, mainly lacking in an SSD and a top range GPU. I want to, within reason, not worry about system requirements for a while.

 

The specs are:

 

2 monitors atm, one HDMI second is vga/dvi, HD. Possibly a 4K in the future but I'd imagine all that may be assumed anyway.

MOBO - ASUSTeK P8z68
CPU - i7 2600K LGA1155 socket
GPU - Geforce 760
RAM DDR3 16GB 667MHZ (DDR3 64bit 240 pin socket)

PSU: CX600M Corsair

 

My HDD's are a 500GB and 1TB drives and I have a NAS server too not really relevant.

 

Thank you in advance for your help.

I would just upgrade your gpu and if you still have problems prepare a new build after that

[Xanthe_2871]

I would upgrade that system! Things have only gotten more power efficient, so new GPUs and and SSD should work fine with that PSU.  

[QuantumBit]

3 minutes ago, justjake said:

Looking at upgrading my Windows 7 Gaming rig, spending no more than £700 in the UK.

 

I want to make the biggest difference to my system. I'm on mechanical drives atm so an SSD (pci if I can) would make a big difference. From what I understand my GPU is the current bottleneck so I'd imagine upgrading that? If I need another CPU i'd imagine i'd be needing another mobo so I'd may as well re-adjust my criteria (maybe even wait) and go about getting new everything at a later date.

 

Basically I have a rig where a few points are showing their age, mainly lacking in an SSD and a top range GPU. I want to, within reason, not worry about system requirements for a while.

 

The specs are:

 

2 monitors atm, one HDMI second is vga/dvi, HD. Possibly a 4K in the future but I'd imagine all that may be assumed anyway.

MOBO - ASUSTeK P8z68
CPU - i7 2600K LGA1155 socket
GPU - Geforce 760
RAM DDR3 16GB 667MHZ (DDR3 64bit 240 pin socket)

PSU: CX600M Corsair

 

My HDD's are a 500GB and 1TB drives and I have a NAS server too not really relevant.

 

Thank you in advance for your help.

As everyone else says, get  better GPU, like a 1060 6GB, a good deal for it is the asus 1060 6gb dual, its going for $230 with a $30 MIR on newegg sorry that isn't in £

[Carlos1010]

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/QjbPgL with all the other components 

[Castdeath97]

I would get a 1440p monitor and a 1070 now, and upgrade the CPU later.