Upgrading Older System

SarunoX

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I am upgrading an my gaming system from 2013. My current build is as follows.

Corsair CX600 600 W 80 Plus Bronze ATX12V power supply
Team Vulcan 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR3 1600 RAM
Asus MSA87 AM3+ Motherboard
AMD FX4300 Vishera Quad Core 3.8 GHz CPU
AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series GPU
Western Digital Black 1TB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
Roswell Computer ATX Mid Tower Black Gaming
Samsung DVD Burner
Microsoft Windows 7 64-Bit

I am not sure if its worth upgrading or what would be best to upgrade. I really want to maximize graphics at 1080p for now. I would like to upgrade this system for 400$ or less or if it more beneficial to do a full upgrade budget can be 600$ I will be upgrading the case for sure to https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16811146093 which is not part of the upgrade budget.
 
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Sell your current system if possible and start over with a much stronger build. Specs are just too outdated. No good upgrade paths for the CPU, upgrading the GPU will result in a CPU bottleneck.

CRO5513Y

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Agreed with above. The HDD should be fine to keep just do a fresh wipe on it (recommended). Power Supply is decent but since it is a couple years old now a new one might be a good idea. The CPU and GPU are just too outdated and weak to toady's standards with no upgrade paths on the CPU socket as already explained above. Hope this helps :)
 

SarunoX

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Okay since its better to do a full build I am gonna gonna do research on whats available and what would be the best options for me. I appreciate the responses and see what I can do. If any one has anything to add feel free like (AMD vs Intel) (Nividia vs AMD), (HDD vs SSD) etc. G