How should I go about upgrading my PC?

[aDuckyOnQuack]

My current build is:

CPU: i3-3240 @ 3.40GHz
RAM: 8GB
PSU: 650W
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 560Ti
I don't know what the motherboard is but it came with the PC from argos, and I know I NEED a new one for my planned 1050ti/1060.

I'm looking to spend around £100 max for the motherboard, and max £180 for my CPU. I don't have a lot of money hahah

What should I upgrade first? And what should I upgrade to?
I want to be able to run Battlefield 1 on medium/high, I'm not fussed about all the i7 business.

 

[Bmacker]

Sorry these are in USD, I did convert though.
If upgrading to LGA 1151, the following:
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117561
- If you're looking to upgrade, go Skylake.
Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1N83UD9877
- It's $10 over budget (like the CPU), but it's worth the $10 extra.
DDR4 RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231886
- Just a solid stick of RAM.

If you DON'T want to spend $50 to replace the RAM (because the MOBO uses DDR4, not DDR3 like your current build)
LGA 1150 Upgrades:
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117372
- Slightly over budget, worth it though.
MOBO: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA85V4MU3613
- Personally have used this myself.

This 1150 upgrade is solid for your budget. The MOBO is under your budget which allows you to spend slightly more on the CPU.
Both of which I used on my first build a few years back, and they lasted me quite a long time until I handed it to my girlfriend and rebuilt my rig.

For the record, these will all play BF1 on Medium (high in some circumstances) if you pair it with the 1060.

Please purchase them both at the same time if you can.

 

[spdragoo]

What is the current model of your "argos" PC? Even if you don't know the motherboard model, a lot of times you can use the PC model to find out the motherboard model, as well as whether it would take a CPU upgrade or not. To be perfectly honest, if your PC can handle the upgrade to an Ivy Bridge i5 (or even i7), you'll be sitting pretty in terms of CPU performance, with at most maybe a 10-15% lag behind a Skylake build (& without having to buy a brand-new set of RAM to go with it).

And how do you know that you need a new motherboard to handle a new GPU? As long as it's at least a PCIe 2.0 x8 slot, you may not get "top" performance, but you'd at least get acceptable performance from it.