It's time to upgrade my PC, please help

And that's what I was worried about, was the new stuff I get not working with stuff I really don't want to upgrade.

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

If you have installed a new graphics card successfully, then you have all the skills needed to upgrade your computer.

You will likely want to update your processor. Which means a new motherboard and possibly new RAM as well. Most CPU's come with a fan, so don't bother with that.

What budget range are you looking at?

If it helps any, I typically start at Newegg with the processor and see what motherboards it fits in. Then price out any other components needed. Once I have my shopping list, I look for deals from any and all reputable vendors (not just Newegg).

Your power supply is good ( more than enough ) and so is your memory ( 16 gb is unnecessary as you and me both do not need top of the line )

The processor is also good enough., upgrading to a newer gen i5 is barely cost effective.

In my opinion replacing the GPU would suffice. Like mousestalker said, newegg might be a good place to start. I personally would recommend the GTX 970, it should work on older motherboards as well( PCIe 3.0 card in a PCIe 2.0 motherboard ) I noticed some refurbished gtx 970 cards so you might want to check those out if you have no qualms about used parts.

Hope this helps 

Power supply is a Corsair TX750.

Thanks everyone for recommendations and advice

This is the pc you want. The personal console

This is completely false. The larger SSD will always yield better performance than a smaller SSD of the same model. Plus, like traditional HDDs, SSDs also tend to slow down as you fill them up. So if you can afford it, always buy an SSD with a larger capacity assuming it is the same model.

Also, the i5 2500K is still faster than AMD's current best desktop CPU (FX-9590) in gaming performance. So just stick with it and upgrade the video card.



OP's Corsair TX750 is a bronze certified 80+ PSU. Despite not being as efficient as other silver, gold, or platinum 80+ certified PSUs, it is still a very good PSU and it certainly won't kill the PC unless you run it in an oven. There is absolutely no reason to change it.

Personally, I'd recommend the 8GB RX480 for a video card upgrade. If you're in the US, this is a good deal. There will be more and far better deals coming this holiday season. So if you're not in a hurry, you can wait for those instead.

Consoles? CONSOLES?!?!?!

only on newer generation ssd's where they have fixed the storage controller so it doesn't loose performance once you start using the extended address locations (m2 /pci versions and the 850 drives) older standards are dirt cheap now though in the up to 250gb size range and most of the time it works out cheaper to buy 3 250gb drives than to buy a single larger one especially if you can get them on deal prices.

and yes on dx10/11 generation stuff the i5's were better than top of the line amd cpu's, but they were also higher priced than them, although given the heat draw on the 9 series fx processors most people tended to stick to the 8 series stuff.... on dx12 that intel always being better thing is reversed, but the difference is negligible if your only running ssd's and have enough ram and vmem, ive not seen a noticeable difference in real performance terms in the last 5 years even if the various performance test programs do rate them differently (and lets not forget that half of those programs were bias loaded that way due to intel providing funding to ensure it for which they were fined $1.4billion for it recently)

in benchmark software written with a heavy bias towards intel chips ........

yeah i'll pay 3 times the price to downgrade my cpu never mind the comparable motherboard and ram costs double the amount as well and loose out on performance when running editing software.... or I could you know I could just read the anti trust law suits against intel and realise their junk isn't better they just bribe everyone to give them better results .....

they don't need to bribe them when they bribed the big name software developers who built the game engine the games run on, or better yet bought the companies that develop the testing software and then bought the various big name "testing companies" and then strong armed the smaller ones into doing their bidding....

most older games only run on single or at most dual core performance, intel built their cpu's so that they only really perform on the first two cores, as soon as you open up to real multicore processes they dive bomb, the i7 barely manages to achieve the same performance as the fx6700 as can be seen in proper benchmarks for photo/ video editing software, and even then only if your lucky enough to get one that's unlocked and your running a heavy overclock ...

as for do I really think intel would do it, well they have been fined in anti trust suits for it several times with each fine getting successively larger, 10 years ago they were fined 1/3rd of their annual turnover in the European market (which equated to $500 million), 5 years ago they were fined $750 million 2 years ago they were fined $1.4billion, and there's another suit against them as well which is due to go to court in the new year  the first court case dated back to the late 90's, the second one related to 1999>2004, the third related to 2006>2010, the next one relates to 2012>2014, and there going to get creamed even harder when the tax case gets underway in 2018 (that's already shaping up to be close on a trillion dollars in unpaid taxes)

so yeah I am well aware of just how nasty they are and just what efforts they go to make sure their stuff always smells of roses, I don't suppose you remember the problem of the spontaneously erupting intel cpu's, but they had them and a lot of people got burned back in the day, still they made sure to exercise their legal power to block most news of the event and spent billions in making the story disappear.... I remember it, it was my first ever bought new pc instead of a second hand lump and the thing went thermal 30 mins after it was installed the guy was just finishing a brew when the room was filled with smoke and the sprinklers came on, caused just over 20 grands worth of damage and the fuckers knew all about it months before they  put them on the market ....