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Hello everyone, I bought a ready package almost 2 years ago, and I really want an upgrade, I am getting a hefty work bonus at the end of the month and I want to spend it on upgrade and I need some help with it! Below is a screenshot of speccy of my computer.

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I live in Finland and from the most used gaming supplier here in Finland I have found and I think I will be purchasing MSI GTX 970 Gaming, 4GB GDDR5, PCI-E 3.0 for 380euros and I want to get 16 gb of ram (since its not that huge of a jump from 8 gb) and I want to buy an SSD hard drive with 120gb or 240gb of space but don't know if its compatible with my pc so I am looking for help. I have a decent budget maybe even closing up to 900 ish euros but would prefer not to spend so much and I am sure this upgrade wont take that much.

I am looking to play some of the newest games like Fallout 4/Black Ops 3 and some upcoming games like dark souls 3. I have 2 benq 144 hz monitors constantly connected to my pc along with a huge flat screen, not sure if that takes much "power" from the CPU if that need an upgrade also.
 
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I'm assuming this is an OEM PC? You may have to change the case (and certainly the PSU) as well. Factoring in all those costs, this is the best config you can come up with:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€87.86 @ Mindfactory)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card (€671.56 @ Mindfactory)
Case: BitFenix Neos White/Blue ATX Mid Tower Case (€41.71 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€103.92 @ Mindfactory)
Total: €905.05
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when...
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Your upgrades depend on a few things:


  • ■ Are you gaming on all three monitors, or will you only be using the two Benqs or even just 1 monitor?
    ■ What PSU do you have? List both the model and manufacturer, not just the wattage.

Right now what I can tell you is save your money and stick with 8GB of RAM. Unless you are editing videos or rendering in 3D, 8GB is plenty. Right now, games will run happily on 8GB of RAM so you'll see no appreciable difference when you add an extra 8GB.
 
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I have a Acer Predator FSP500-50AAGA 500w 80+ Gold 12 pin ATX power supply, I mostly play on 1 monitor and occasinally on the tv, but I tried to play on both monitors but the game I wanted to play (bo3) but my video card was too weak or something.
 
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I'm assuming this is an OEM PC? You may have to change the case (and certainly the PSU) as well. Factoring in all those costs, this is the best config you can come up with:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€87.86 @ Mindfactory)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card (€671.56 @ Mindfactory)
Case: BitFenix Neos White/Blue ATX Mid Tower Case (€41.71 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€103.92 @ Mindfactory)
Total: €905.05
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-11 20:22 CET+0100

Surround triple screen gaming should be a piece of cake with the 980 Ti.

A more affordable set-up would be this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€87.86 @ Mindfactory)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (€355.90 @ Mindfactory)
Case: BitFenix Neos White/Red ATX Mid Tower Case (€41.71 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€103.92 @ Mindfactory)
Total: €589.39
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-11 20:25 CET+0100

Which will allow you to max out games on a single 1080p display. There's also an in-between option of a 980, which should allow for good performance on two 1080p screens. All depends on what you are looking to achieve.

Depending on which GPU you choose you may have to change your case. You'll need to measure and see if the card will fit. Fortunately, that's easy enough to check. Get a measuring tape, then measure the length from the PCI-E bracket to the HDD cage:

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Then compare it against the length of the GPU. If the GPU is longer, then the case will have to be replaced or a shorter GPU be used. We'll cross that bridge if and when we come to it.
 
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