Rig Upgrade Advice

[wjpiovano]

Hi,

I bought a PC in 2011 which I'm looking to upgrade, and was hoping for your advice.

Current Spec:
CoolerMaster HAF 912 Mid-Tower
Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz (Overclocked to 4.5)
ThermalTake Frio Cooling Fan
4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600mhz
Asus P8P67 Motherboard
750 Watt PSU
GeForce GTX570 1280MB

Parts I'm Thinking of Getting:
2x4GB HyperX Fury DDR3 1600mhz
NVIDIA GTX 970

Approximate Purchase Date: Next month

Budget Range: £250-300

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, VR, Development

Are you buying a monitor: No

Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Only used Amazon so far, open to any others.

Location: London, UK

Parts Preferences: Prefer NVIDIA cards. No preference on RAM.

Overclocking: Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: No

Your Monitor Resolution: native is 2560x1080 (21:9) but I tend to game in 1920x1080

Why I'm Upgrading: As of right now, my two reasons are VR and Doom, neither of which I can use on my current system.

From what I've read, the i5 2500k shouldn't be a bottleneck and I appear to have enough wattage in my PSU.

Do you think this upgrade is worth it, or am I better off selling the whole thing off and investing in a new rig?

Would you recommend the GTX 970 over other cards?

Many thanks,

Will

 

[VR PC-BUILD]

First of all for a decent PC upgrade you don't have enough to spend so you can do do this in two parts like GPU upgrade now and CPU & Mobo upgrade in near-future when you have some more to spend.

Now about GPU as you are able to push your limit to 300 then wait for two weeks and go for GTX1070 instead of GTX970 as it has major performance boost over GTX970.

Still if you are left with some more to spend after buying GTX1070 then upgrade RAM to 8GB kit and then the PC can handle the games easily for time being.

Still I would recommend you to gather some more and upgrade CPU and Motherboard as well

Edit: Now many will bring up the point of i5 2500K bottleneck GTX1070 but I doubt because i5 2500K went head to head with i7s for a long time and it is a good CPU so there are less chances of getting GTX1070 bottleneck possibilities. But still wait till it is released and wait for review.

All the best for the upgrade

 

[wjpiovano]

Thanks for the advice. The 1070 appears to be retailing at £270 which would be a great bargain considering the current 970 price.

Assuming the i5 2500k won't bottleneck the GPU, is a CPU+mobo upgrade really necessary in the near future?

 

[VR PC-BUILD]

Thanks for the advice. The 1070 appears to be retailing at £270 which would be a great bargain considering the current 970 price.

Assuming the i5 2500k won't bottleneck the GPU, is a CPU+mobo upgrade really necessary in the near future?

Yes it is i5 2500K can handle games for only a year now after a year you must upgrade CPU and Mobo.