What kinds of Upgradability?

[wowdude12able]

My current PC is a prebuilt from cyberpower. It has worked greatly for me for close to a year now, and I was curious on how long/ how much i could upgrade for until having to build an entire new PC.

It has an i5-6402p@2.8ghz
8gb ddr4@2133
1tb hdd
RX 480 4gb
and a
600w PSU
though I do not know which.
All of this is in the MSI B150m Bazooka motherboard.

My basic upgrade questions are upgrading to 16gb ram, a better processor, stronger GPU, and maybe a better PSU, adding some extra case fans i have, adding additional hard drives possibly, etc.. should I just let this PC run its course and build a whole new PC w/ everything a few years down the road or is putting new components in this PC a good route as I can? No, I don't plan to overclock, do crossfire/sli, watercool, or or stuff like that, if that provides some insight. Sorry for the long post, thank you for any answers or advice.

Edited post to list out specs.
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[Ali Tauseef]

This can go a super long way, a bios update will probably allow you to run a Kaby Lake CPU.

 

[Lutfij]

You could go for higher ram capacity but for the aspect about higher ram frequency, you're only going to see 2133MHz no matter what kit you drop in there even if it was a 3200MHz kit since the B150 chipset doesn't allow for overclocking on the ram nor the CPU. Speaking of CPU, you could go for the i7(non K suffix version) but without the ram overclock you're missing out on that sweet spot.

upgrading to 16gb ram, a better processor, stronger GPU, and maybe a better PSU, adding some extra case fans i have, adding additional hard drives possibly,...

When you look at the amount of money you're dropping on the aforementioned components, you'll quickly see that they equate to you building a new system from scratch, save for a build with much better quality parts.

If you're looking at a few years down the road then there's the prospect of going for DDR5 ram and a whole new platform past the Z270 chipset.

 

[wowdude12able]

Thank you for your insight, thats basically what I was thinking too. Maybe for now I'll just upgrade to 16gb of ram and in the future use that in a whole new build. I think I want/need the ram for multitasking/streaming, and what not. thanks again!

 

[Ali Tauseef]

Thank you for your insight, thats basically what I was thinking too. Maybe for now I'll just upgrade to 16gb of ram and in the future use that in a whole new build. I think I want/need the ram for multitasking/streaming, and what not. thanks again!

Yes, 8 GB will hold you back in gaming. And your CPU may give you trouble too.