I7 2600K OC and GPU Upgrade

[bakcay]

I recently decided to upgrade my pc. And apperently I7 2600K is still a viable cpu for gaming if u oc it to around 4.2ish. As someone who never tried to OC before, i have some questions; is my cpu cooler, power supply etc. enough for OC?(Power supply Aerocool Strike X 800W 80+ Plus Silver 66A-12V Single Rail and CPU cooler Sunbeam Core-Contact Freezer) and second what should i consider to upgrade my current GPU to?( MSI Geforce GTX 560-Ti Hawk). I am guessing my current mobo MSI P67A-GD53 is not supporting gtx 9xx series. Thank you for any advice.

 

[Woody1999]

Your motherboard supports any PCIe x16 graphics card, so yes it should support the GTX 9XX series just fine. If you need a new graphics card, they're probably the best ones to buy currently. Beware that AMD will be releasing the new R9 300 series with new HBM memory in a week or two.

Your PSU is a tier 4 model, which is very low quality. I would recommend getting a new power supply in at least tier 2 if you want to overclock your 2600K. Your CPU cooler is of decent quality, but you might not hit 4.2GHz on it, depending on the motherboard.

Woody

 

[bakcay]

GTX 9xx series might be a little bit expensive and unnecessery for me but should i wait for AMD to release 300 series to buy a GPU even i will probably not gonna buy AMD?