Helpful suggestions on what to upgrade in my PC?

jonesymidget

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Sep 18, 2014
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I bought and built my first PC about November time last year, I used;

AMD FX 8320 Eight Core
8 GB of Kingston Hyper X RAM
AsRock 990FX Extreme4 Mobo (I think)
Asus Nvidia GTX 760
750W OCZ ZT
I also have three hard drives, one 750 GB Seagate Barracuda, one old crucial M225 128 GB SSD and a WD 320 GB as my OS drive.

I just want some recommendations on what to improve, my first thoughts were on the hard drives a Seagate Hybrid, perhaps a Samsung SSD which I will use as my main OS drive and perhaps another SSD for games I really like, but I was also considering whether I should upgrade the card to the next up when the next series comes out? Just send your suggestions, also on an almost unrelated note, should I get the LG G3 or Sony Xperia Z3?
 
Solution
Personally I'd do 3 things.
1. Add an aftermarket cooler like the Noctua nh-d14 or nzxt Kraken x41. Then OC that cpu to 4.5-4.6
2. Add another 256Gb SSD, move OS to the 128Gb, use the 256 for all the rest, but keep the 320 for mass storage of stuff like vids, pics, music
3. Upgrade the gpu. You have an overpowered tier2 psu, well able to handle any current single card. Something along the lines of the gtx 780 would be appropriate, the gtx 770 not being really worth the value of cost of the new card over the performance of the gtx 760. (that is unless you can sell the old gpu to recover some of the cost)
Personally I'd do 3 things.
1. Add an aftermarket cooler like the Noctua nh-d14 or nzxt Kraken x41. Then OC that cpu to 4.5-4.6
2. Add another 256Gb SSD, move OS to the 128Gb, use the 256 for all the rest, but keep the 320 for mass storage of stuff like vids, pics, music
3. Upgrade the gpu. You have an overpowered tier2 psu, well able to handle any current single card. Something along the lines of the gtx 780 would be appropriate, the gtx 770 not being really worth the value of cost of the new card over the performance of the gtx 760. (that is unless you can sell the old gpu to recover some of the cost)
 
Solution
A new SSD to put there the OS and games that need a lot of time to load (BF4 is the first I can think) would be, in my opinión, the best idea. A 250GB 840 EVO ins't very expensive and you won't probably need much more space. The only performance impact of a SSD in games is the loading times, so I don't recommend buying two SSDs, most games load quite fast even in an old HDD, but putting there the OS is really noticeable.

Also, as you won't spend a lot, you will be able to buy a better GPU. Nowadays the R9 280X is very good priced, but I think it's better buying it when its price drops even more because of the R9 3xx/GTX 9xx launch.