[SOLVED] Outdated system, hoping for advice

[Chonsey]

i all,

Hoping someone can help. I’m not too tech savvy, but I bought a custom built pc back in 2014 with the below specs and after the past few weeks of being trapped indoors, I’m realising it could finally be time for an upgrade!

I don't really need the best of the best or anything (planned wedding this year took a bite out of my budget for fun things!), but the specs below don't really mean too much to me and I’m hoping someone could let me know whether it would be a good idea to just upgrade the odd thing below, or whether buying a whole new system would be a better idea?


MOTHERBOARD: MSI X79A-GD45

CPU: INTEL(R) Core™ i7-4820K Quad-Core 3.70 GHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card

RAM: 12GB (3x4GB) DDR3/1600mhz Quad Channel Memory - (it came with four, but one day my pc mysteriously stopped booting until I took one out – finding out this was the reason was a nightmare!)

HDD: 1TB Seagate Hybrid Gen3 SATA-III 6.0Gb/s Cache 5400RPM SSHD


Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated!

 

[AJNameS]

It seems a good system. You can put a 4-6 gb video card like gtx 1650/1660/1060 6 gb/1650 super/1660 super/radeon equivalent, and put more & faster ram, up to total 16 gb ddr3-1600, or 32 gb ddr3-2400, or etc.
If u want a newer system, then 8/9 gen intel cpu can be good - with the newer 1151-chipset. Or amd-equivalent.

 

[Chonsey]

Great, thanks for the help!

I think the weakest component is the GPU, so I think it would make sense to upgrade that.