[SOLVED] Is an 8 year old build worth upgrading ?

[sherhi]

Hello, I would like to ask this community if my 8 years old build is worth upgrading. It was made by my friend for studying/PhD database work/gaming of course. Now my studies&PhD are done and gaming is starting to struggle with this build.

Core i7-4790K 4 GHz Quad-Core
Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150
Kingston 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR3-2133
Samsung 850 Evo 500 GB 2.5" SSD
Asus GeForce GTX 760 2 GB DirectCU II

I am looking for an upgrade of this if it's worth it - GPU would be my first candidate but I don't know which to choose to not spend hundreds of euros (the more it goes towards 1000€ the better it is to build new PC I guess) and I also don't want to overkill it. Is there any upgrade that would prolong this build? I play MMOs like ESO or WoW, Witcher 3, Civ6 etc and I just keep lowering settings more and more :/

 

[DSzymborski]

If getting a higher power 30 series, it's definitely time to replace the PSU. The Zalman is good as Zalman PSUs go -- they've never prioritized quality here -- but once you're talking GPUs that can really punish PSUs, it's definitely time to move on from what is a rather mediocre Sirfa/High Power-manufactured unit that uses an outdated design (though it at least has DC-DC conversion).