Need help piroritizing upgrade

[Professur]

Long time lurker, first time posting. Thanks everyone I have benefited a lot.

I need help piroritizing an upgrade:

1) My System:

I haven't built a computer since Windows 95. Last year on the Cyber Monday, I took a plunge and built one:

Intel 4690 (non-K)
MSI H97 PC Mate
EVGA GTX 960 4Gb (which I plugged that into the PCI 2.0 slot; I didn't know PCI has 3.0 now)
EVGA 600W Bronze

Samsung Evo 250 Gb (New)
Seagate Barracuda 1 Tb (2 year old)
WD harddisk 1 Tb (4 year old)

External backup: WD 3 Tb external harddrive

Ram: Memoryx DDR3 1600 CL11 (8 Gb x 1)

Monitor: Samsung S24C300L


2) Use:

- Amateur Photography Lightroom & Photoshop CS 6
- Rainbow Six Siege (recommended system config: Intel 2700K, GTX 760, 8 Gb ram)
- Libre Office (presentations & papers, as my username implies)


3) Upgrade:

Since my 4690 is stuck with the H97 mobo - I'll run them till the end of the day.

I have the following idea:

1) GTX 960 + 600W Bronze to the new "GTX 1070" & 750W Gold
- Gaming and also a 750W powerhouse sounds more reliable?
- Should I do it this coming November/December?

2) WD harddisk 1 Tb (4 year old) to a new WD black 1 Tb
- So I put all my amateur photography there and run faster?

3) Memoryx DDR3 1600 CL11 (8 Gb x 1) to G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8 Gb)
- Gaming?

4) Monitor? I picked up my Samsung S24C300L for $160 about 2.5 years ago.


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Edited the "1 Gb Harddrive" to "1 Tb Harddrive"

 

[Bearmann]

#2 & 3 won't make any appreciable difference (unless you are running out of RAM in Photoshop). Whether you want a monitor or not is up to you.

 

[Chasingfaith]

I suppose you meant to write "1 Tb harddrive"?

Anyway, faster ram memory doesn't really affect performance too much so I would skip that upgrade all together, and just get new ddr4 memory whenever you're getting a new cpu/mobo.

Getting a new harddrive won't really change performance either (unless your old hd is dying on you). Getting another ssd would benefit you a whole lot more.

Upgrading to a gtx 1070 will certainly give your pc an enormous performance boost but it's a rather expensive upgrade. You won't have to upgrade your psu though, 600W should be enough (definitely without an overclocked cpu).

As for the monitor, that's up to you. Maybe a nice 2k screen to go with that gtx 1070?