New Build. Buy now or wait for something new?

[hearmenow]

Hey Everyone!

It's been a good 3/4 years since I last updated my build. I have around £600-800 pound to play with and am looking for the best areas for me to upgrade. I was thinking of possibly getting a new motherboard, but was unsure if it's worth while as the Z68 still seems pretty good. I think my graphics card is probably my downfall but still not 100% sure what to go for maybe:

http://www.ebuyer.com/609533-gigabyte-gtx-780-ghz-edition-3gb-gddrA5-dual-dvi-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-gv-n780ghz-3gd

I'm still awaiting my new case the (corsair graphite 760T) so will have quite a bit of room.

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron

Also preference of Nvidia Graphics card, never had much luck with ATI and their drivers.

Motherboard - Asus P8Z68-V PRO Z68 Socket 1155 8 Channel HD Audio ATX Motherboard
BluRayDrive - Samsung SH-B123L 12x BD-ROM DVD±RW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATA Optical Drive - OEM Black
PSU - Corsair 950W TX Series PSU - 78A 12V Rail
Graphics Card - MSI GTX 560Ti TWIN FROZR II 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI Out PCI-E Graphics Card
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/255699
CASE - Artic 900
RAM - x2 - 8GB Mushkin Enhanced BlackLine Frostbyte
CPU - Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandy Bridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
SSD - Seagate 600 Series 480GB 2.5inch SATA-III SSD
Slave Drive – 1TB Samsung

 

[lowriderflow]

your stuff is not that out of date still... other than your GPU.

Why not spend just 150 and double your performance in games by grabbing another 560ti from ebay and a decent all in one liquid like the cooler master 120XL.

560ti SLI is equal to the 770/680.
considering your PSU is plenty enough to handle it... OC your CPU to 4.2ghz and superclock your 560SLI setup and you'll crush anything at 1080p

I'd probly holdoff

 

[boucleinfinie]

There's always going to be something new. It's of my opinion to say that there's no point in waiting unless it's coming out within the next couple days. The gpu is probably the only thing you'll need to upgrade for a while. There's no problems with that chipset or cpu other than mild age. The newer cpus don't top those ones that much except for integrated graphics.

 

[HiTechObsessed]

Oh yeah, definitely your graphics is what needs updated lol the CPU, SSD, RAM, PSU, motherboard are all perfectly fine, and you wouldn't see much upgrade to buy those. I woudl get dual 290's in Crossfire, and a nice H100i for overclocking, and get you much better performance than you could get from building a whole new rig from scratch.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£83.88 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 290 4GB DirectCU II Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) (£316.36 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 290 4GB DirectCU II Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) (£316.36 @ Aria PC)
Total: £716.60
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-05 21:46 BST+0100)

The 2500k is still a good CPU, especially when overclocked. And the dual 290s will take whatever you can throw at them.

 

[boosted1g]

The sandy bridge i5 is still failry good and the only thing that you would get out of a newer board is pci-express 3.0 but for a single or even dual monitor setup there is a minimal difference. For CPU/Motherboard you would not see that much of a difference to justify the cost of a new board/cpu.

The graphics card area seems to be your down fall, I would put your money into that, and then if you decide to upgrade other parts latter you can always use the GPU with the new parts.

 

[hearmenow]

Woah, thanks for your help guys. Some great information here. Sounds like a good idea that lowriderflow.

I really like that list you put there HiTechObsessed, my only problem is my previous experience with AMD Graphics cards and their drivers. I have heard that Steam now does automatic updates but just seems that Nvidia are always more compatible with games.

Really grateful for your help guys, I think I'll defiantly go for that CPU cooler and over clock it. Then it's just deciding on the graphics card, but grabbing another 560ti sounds like a good idea if it is equal to a 770. Will just need to learn how to superclock the graphics cards xD

Thanks again!

 

[HiTechObsessed]

Sounds like a good plan lol and overclocking is relatively easy, MSI Afterburner is one of my favorites, and is really easy to use.