Upgrade or start new?

[jbaxter1994]

I'm trying to decide if it is worth upgrading my existing pc, or if I should start over.
The pc will be mainly for gaming and movies.
my budget for a new pc would be around $600, I'm only new to this so any help would be appreciated

The pc I have now has an i7 970 with 8gb of ram
MSI x58 pro-e motherboard
GTX 750 ti gpu
and 500gb HDD

thanks

 

[clutchc]

Tough call. $600 will buy you a decent starter gaming PC. But Simply upgrading the gfx card to a GTX 1060 6GB will improve the system you have now. Especially for gaming and somewhat for movies. Are you US-based?

 

[jbaxter1994]

Tough call. $600 will buy you a decent starter gaming PC. But Simply upgrading the gfx card to a GTX 1060 6GB will improve the system you have now. Especially for gaming and somewhat for movies. Are you US-based?

Okay thankyou, that is defiantly something I was considering.
no I'm AUS

 

[clutchc]

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised what the GTX 1060 will do with that ageing platform. The 6C/12T processor still has potential. I have the Xeon version of that CPU (Xeon W3670) on an Asus P6T motherboard and 12GB 1600MHz RAM. After adding the Evga GTX 1060 6GB my Firestrike score is 10,991. My Timespy score is 4248. I was able to OC it for even higher scores. Unfortunately, I wasn't happy with the stability of my OC.

 

[jbaxter1994]

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised what the GTX 1060 will do with that ageing platform. The 6C/12T processor still has potential. I have the Xeon version of that CPU (Xeon W3670) on an Asus P6T motherboard and 12GB 1600MHz RAM. After adding the Evga GTX 1060 6GB my Firestrike score is 10,991. My Timespy score is 4248. I was able to OC it for even higher scores. Unfortunately, I wasn't happy with the stability of my OC.

Oh perfect, my main concern was the age on some of the parts wouldn't be able to keep up, il look around for a 1060 now haha
thanks for all the help