Having trouble playing games, can I breath new life into current rig, or should I start over?

[yemar]

I am getting around to playing games that just don't run well with my current hardware. I've thought about just upgrading my graphics card, but started wondering if I would hit another bottleneck if I only do that. So, based on the info below, can I strategically upgrade, or should I just build all over again?

My current system goes something like this:
Graphics Card: AMD HD5770
Monitor: Samsung syncMaster 220wm (Max res 1680 x 1050, 22'')
CPU: i7 2700K
Motherboard: EVGA Z68 FTW
RAM: 2 x 4GB DDR3 Corsair XMS3 1600 MHz
HD: Toshiba 1 TB
Power supply: Corsair HX750
Windows 10

I would appreciate any and all suggestions.

 

[dudeman509]

New GPU should do it. The CPU is still quite capable, especially with a healthy overclock (SB is a great overclocking generation).

Wouldn't hurt to toss in a SSD as a system/boot drive to breathe some new life into the machine as a whole.

 

[ohenryy]

Yes, get a new SSD and the PC will look like new.. specially since you never had one you will see software load twice as fast.