[SOLVED] Upgrade or move on?

[pcguy578]

I've had this PC for 7 years and its time to upgrade. I have 700-800 dollars to build a new one or upgrade the existing one which one should I do? Upgrade or build new.

(I put in the CPU forum cause i did not know where else to put it)

Personal Rig, Comet
CPU: Intel Core i7 4960X 6c/12t
Motherboard: Asus X79 Deluxe ATX LGA 2011
RAM: 2 kits of blue Corsair Vengance (2x4gb) DDR3 1333MHz
Storage: Corsair Force series GT 120gb
Storage: WD VelociRaptor 1tb 10000
Video cards: Dual Sapphire Radeon R9 270 DualX
Case: In Win D-Frame Orange
PSU: be quiet! Dark power pro 10 750w 80+ Gold
OS: Windows 8.1 Basic

 

[86zx]

Well it’s a choice of either save for longer to get a newer pc of higher caliber or upgrade your gpu and leave the rest of the pc as is. With 800 you could get a decent system without a gpu but that gpu is getting long in the tooth and could be upgraded. You can get more out of your system with a new gpu for sure but your cpu isn’t upgradable. You might be able to get another couple years out of your system with a better gpu but you’ll eventually want to upgrade everything after that. If you do go gpu route I’d look at 2070s or 2080

 

[xxsk8er101xx]

It depends on what you do. If you're a gamer just upgrade your video card and storage. If you create content well then that's a different topic. You should save for a beefy CPU, ton of RAM, and an ok GPU.

1. EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Gaming, 08G-P4-3071-KR, 8GB GDDR6
2. Samsung (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technology
3. StarTech.com 3-port M.2 SSD (NGFF) Adapter Card - Supports 1x PCIe (NVMe) M.2 SSD, 2x SATA III M.2 SSDs - PCIe 3.0 Adapter (PEXM2SAT32N1)

Then this way you can correctly junk your VelociRaptor. Lol... spinning disks, whaaaat?