Piecemeal LGA 1155 System Upgrade. Need Help

[Des71]

I bought this collection of parts over a year ago for $90, and installed them into a Cooler Master N600 case, added a 500GB Western Digital Hard Drive and Asus CD/DVD Drive.

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Intel Celeron G530 @ 2.40GHz Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM 4GB Patriot Sector 5 PC3-10666, DDR3-1333MHz, 240-pin DIMM, 9-9-9-24 CAS Latency
Motherboard ASUS P8Z68 DELUXE/GEN3 (LGA1155)
Video Card Sapphire 512MB ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series

I would like to start upgrading the processor, memory, graphics card and add a Samsung SSD drive. I want to do this over time, piece by piece. I would like to know in which order would provide the best increase in overall system performance and which best value components would you recommend. Or would it financially make more sense by selling everything and essentially starting over? I'm not a gamer, but I push my PC by having several tabs open when using Firefox and Chrome and playing Apple Music on iTunes. I will be upgrading to Windows 10 when the bugs are smashed.

Thank you.

 

[utgotye]

What you describe isn't what I would call heavy multitasking. You should be able to find and i5 for $100 or less. That would be my first upgrade for sure, followed by an extra 4GB of RAM. The SSD can be added at anytime and they are on sale regularly. Given that you don't game, graphics would be the last thing I'd worry about.

 

[Des71]

What you describe isn't what I would call heavy multitasking. You should be able to find and i5 for $100 or less. That would be my first upgrade for sure, followed by an extra 4GB of RAM. The SSD can be added at anytime and they are on sale regularly. Given that you don't game, graphics would be the last thing I'd worry about.

utgotye, thank you for fast and clear response. The i5 for $100 or less that you are suggesting, would it be the i5-2500K? Thanks again.

 

[utgotye]

Not sure if you can get the K for that. The unlocked usually runs $20 - 40 more from what I have seen, depends on the seller. Sandy Bridge CPUs still compare well in performance against newer Intel CPUs, especially considering they are 3-4 years old.