Needs advice! Cpu or Gpu Upgrade?

[weeasianrockztar]

Hello Folks!

My Gaming build:
CPU - i5 2500k 3.3GHz overclocked@ 4.5GHz
RAM - 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz CL9
MOBO - Asrock Fatal1ty Professional P67 B3
COOLER - Corsair H70
GPU - Asus GTX 660 Ti OC
PSU - OCz ZS Series 750w
HDD - 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM
SSD - OCz Solid 3 120GB SATA 6Gb/s
CASE - Zalman Z11 Plus
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate [Service Pack 1]

Dunno if i should upgrade my Cpu to i7 3820 or Get another asus gtx 660 ti and sli.

Its mostly gonna be used in Gaming and rendering/editing Videos

Cheers

 

[Marcopolo123]

Lol why do you want to upgrade your pc
Isnt it powerfull enough for you ?

 

[chrisafp07]

Lol why do you want to upgrade your pc
Isnt it powerfull enough for you ?

Could just be a hobby, who knows "shrugs" for me I upgrade sometimes if I have money to spend and want to enjoy installing something new

To the OP, I personally would say your CPU, but only if you were gonna jump to an i7 3770k or better You said possibly 3820 which would be a nice increase for sure). A 3570k or FX8350 wouldn't be a massive jump from your 2500k with your OC, and an i5 is out completely if you are rendering/editing video (an 8350 does well in those tasks but unless you are budget concious than the i7 3820 is the clear choice). I could be wrong as well, I know the 660ti is a pretty good card though, my friend has one. Depends on what your budget is, the GPU is gonna set you back more if you stepped up from there to 670 or higher or 7900. SLI could be viable for you too, I'm sure there are examples of how well the 660ti's do in SLI, I am not sure.

 

[mattboymatt]

Lol why do you want to upgrade your pc
Isnt it powerfull enough for you ?

Could just be a hobby, who knows "shrugs" for me I upgrade sometimes if I have money to spend and want to enjoy installing something new

To the OP, I personally would say your CPU, but only if you were gonna jump to an i7 3770k or better You said possibly 3820 which would be a nice increase for sure). A 3570k or FX8350 wouldn't be a massive jump from your 2500k with your OC, and an i5 is out completely if you are rendering/editing video (an 8350 does well in those tasks but unless you are budget concious than the i7 3820 is the clear choice). I could be wrong as well, I know the 660ti is a pretty good card though, my friend has one. Depends on what your budget is, the GPU is gonna set you back more if you stepped up from there to 670 or higher or 7900. SLI could be viable for you too, I'm sure there are examples of how well the 660ti's do in SLI, I am not sure.

that proccessor is very good but make sure you update your bios before hand as i had the same problem when trying to put a 3rd gen Intel in this board it just powered up for a second then shut down. So update the bios then put in the i7 3770k. Just to let you know so you dont make the same mistake that i did.