Upgrade or build new?

[CannonballGB]

Hey folks, apologies as I know you all get this question frequently, but I'm not super up to date on technologies these days so looking for advice. I mainly game with this rig - CS:GO, PUBG, and would like to play Star Citizen whenever it comes out.

Here's my current system:

8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3
i5-4440
ASRock H97M
850 EVO SSD
TRI-X AMD Radeon R9 290 OC 4GB GDDR5

Thanks in advance.

 

[superninja12]

i would get an i7 4790

 

[bumnut53]

I would upgrade in stages, graphics card first and then cpu/motherboard/ram. You will get good money for your old parts on ebay, cpu alone will sell for around £100

 

[superninja12]

its rude to sell a gift immediantly....

 

[MDXX]

Rocking a gen 4 cpu. If your looking to budget check out Ryzen. Or you can wait for the new Coffee lake cpus