Upgrade to GTX 1060,1080p for gaming, extra components required? HDD and SSD to get

Gerry_ts

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Oct 31, 2016
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Hi guys,

Been following Tom's for advice here and there but never get to actually building, HDD been running real low after some good old years and it's time to upgrade the whole thing, what I am looking for is, I would like to keep the old parts as much as possible while upgrading the pc to a acceptable gaming rig. According to CPU-Z:

Current Rig:
i5 3570
MDB: H77-D3H
Kingston PC3-12800 (800Mhz), 4GB x 2
GTX 560 Ti MSI Twin Frozr II
Hitachi HDT721010SLA 1 TB model
PSU: Corsair CX 600

Digging around for a bit and think I would stick to 1080p gaming with my current monitors and not VR, so I am thinking with new games and all, the likes of Mafia 3, DOOM and whats following, my best bet would be:

1)Buy GTX 1060 6GB model
2)Buy a HDD (2-3 TB, depends on pricing, game install goes here?------Toshiba P300 3TB?)
3)Buy a SSD (Only for system install so 256 GB should be enough? ----- Samsung 850 Evo 250GB?

I wonder if any of you could kindly comment if I should be upgrading anything else aka bottleneck issue? Been reading a bit about CPU and it should be fine if I am not mistaken, not sure about MDB though, and could you kindly suggest a good SSD and HDD to get?

Many thanks!


 
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Listing price from PCP is off by quite a bit... if you just look at the part list link; follow on to the retailer site to see actual price.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($74.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Toshiba 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 480 4GB GAMING X Video Card ($179.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($63.48 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $383.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-11-02 06:33 EDT-0400

In SSD...

FD2Raptor

Admirable
Listing price from PCP is off by quite a bit... if you just look at the part list link; follow on to the retailer site to see actual price.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($74.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Toshiba 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 480 4GB GAMING X Video Card ($179.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($63.48 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $383.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-11-02 06:33 EDT-0400

In SSD, Crucial MX300 is the best price-performance wise; but if it's just for the OS, you may only require a A-Data Premier SP550 120GB.
The MSI RX 480 4GB Gaming X is available at $179.99 after $20 rebate, a very good deal at Amazon.
Seasonic S12II 620W to replace the CX to be on the safe side since the CX isn't exactly of great quality.

Other than that, RAM could be an area you may want to look into. The H77 is an older chipset that use DDR3 which is being phase out in both destop use (as DDR4 become the standard) as well as in graphic card (as the high-end move to GDDR5X-HBM), you may want to fast-track that upgrade before availability/compatibility become an issue (since there are already announced titles that put 12GB RAM as a requirement).
 
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