Wondering if I need to upgrade a few components holding me back or if I need to just start fresh (assuming that this is the correct choice, but looking for feedback.

I built my PC about six years ago and think I had pretty standard, middle range items at the time. My current build is:

MSI Z68A-GD65, i think this is the item
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130611

Intel core i5 2500k
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072

AMD Radeon HD 6870
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102948

Roswill 650W Power supply
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182071

I've got a 500gb that I bought at the time of build and a 250 (i think, may be 128) SSD that I bought a few years ago, Samsung 840 pro series

So what does everyone think? Can I get away with upgrading one or two things or would everything here really limit whatever I upgraded?

Tbh I would start fresh. I'm assuming that the 500 gb drive is a HDD and the 128/256 is the SSD. You should keep the SSD for new build and sell everything else for 300-400ish if you can via let go/OfferUp/Craigslist.

What kind of budget are you looking at since building new is probably your best choice?

What kinds of games do you play? Anything modern/recent might bottlenneck the cpu. Do you do anything else on your PC?

This post was edited by Penguins0690 on Jun 14 2017 08:41am

Holy hell man, if you'd give me (or know a buyer) 300 for this computer minus the SSD i'd ship it out tonight lol. I think finding a buyer would be the hardest part for me, no matter what I charge for it who is gonna want a 6 year old computer?

as far as a budget, I'd have to give that some thought. To start out I'd probably keep the two monitors I have and the keyboard and mouse, so I'd just need the tower components (minus the SSD and windows if I keep mine). I think I could probably swing 5-600? Something like that.

Literally right now all I play is RS but I'm gonna pick up POE soon and, tbh, my computer struggles sometimes with source Twitch streams. FeelsBadMan

let go is a waste of time it's just millions of people listing shit and no one trying to buy

You can try and sell it on r/hardwareswap. Pretty good community.

I sold a 3570k/16gb ram/gtc 760 for 450 6 months ago.
Just list it as Minecraft/csgo 300 fps (just kidding, kinda)
Really tho, get at least 225 for it. Anything lower I would wait on personally.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jGBhwV
If u can squeeze out another $100, you should get a 1060 6gb instead. So much better than a 1050ti. Both should run those games without breaking a sweat.

This post was edited by Penguins0690 on Jun 14 2017 12:11pm

what resolution and refresh rate are you playing at?
are you upgrading monitor too?

if 1080o/60hz just get new vid card to 580/480 or 1060

if streaming is very important start new

This post was edited by yupitsmeh on Jun 14 2017 12:39pm

Thanks for this info, I'll take a look. I might be able to make the bump if you consider it to be really significant. Keeping the SSD so I can save on the SSD and on windows is a good idea. You don't think there will be any drawbacks of that? It's only a few yrs old, I dont know what the typical lifetime of an SSD is.

If I wanted to add a HDD, to that build, what would you recommend?

definitely keep the SSD - kept mine from my 1st build 4 years ago. No issues there. They should last awhile, either they work or they don't
SSD's were cheaper to buy awhile back, prices have gone up lately so it's not worth it to sell that for basically $40 in your system and rebuy one for $110 or something.

link below updated with hdd choice
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9P3NwV

Ok cool, thanks for the info. SSDs aren't something I know all that well.

One more question about the build, I noticed there's no cooler for the cpu, is it just not something that's necessary unless you're doing crazy things with it? I have a pretty big one on my current build so I was curious about that