Looking to Upgrade Computer

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I recently got some spare change, so I'm looking to upgrade the computer I built (with a friend) a couple of years ago.

As I'm not the best with computer hardware and their names, I'll simply copy directly from Speccy.

CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 965 63 °C
Deneb 45nm Technology
RAM
4,00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 611MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. M4A87TD/USB3 (AM3) 56 °C
Graphics
ASUS VH242 (1920x1080@60Hz)
1024MB GeForce GTX 460 (Gigabyte) 44 °C
Hard Drives
932GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ ATA Device (SATA) 30 °C
112GB Corsair Force GT ATA Device (SSD) 29 °C
Optical Drives
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
Audio (I included this because sometimes people have strong opinions about headsets/phones)
Logitech G35 Headset

I also included temperatures because I assume that that might help somehow. I recently played Diablo 3 for a couple hours, for whatever it's worth.

What, in your opinion, should I be looking to upgrade next?

Cheers!

[Deleted]

It depends on what you are playing and what your budget is.

If you mainly play FPS games, I would go for a gpu upgrade first and cpu later.
If you mainly play RTS/MMO games, I would probably go for a cpu upgrade.

You can atleast put some extra RAM in there.

But what is your budget and what do you play?

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My budget is around €500 (can go higher but I doubt the need is there?), and I very rarely play FPS games, it's almost exclusively RTS/MMO games (WoW, Rift, SC2, D3).

I'm also looking to make videos/stream, if that means anything for computer hardware.

[Toffie]

Do you have any experience overclocking your CPU ?
If not, would you spend 20 min studying a guide on how to do so?

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Do you have any experience overclocking your CPU ?
If not, would you spend 20 min studying a guide on how to do so?

I have, but very little. The only times I've overclocked more than a little bit I've been guided by the friend who helped me initially. I would read a guide, if it helped the computer perform more than marginally better.

[Toffie]

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CPU Intel Core i5-3570K 3,4 GHz (Ivy Bridge) Sockel 1155 - boxed
MB ASRock Z77 Pro3, Intel Z77 Mainboard - Sockel 1155
RAM Corsair Vengeance LP Series Black DDR3-1600, CL9 - 8GB Kit
Heatsink Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU-Kühler - 120mm

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Ehm, just noticed your ram is DDR3; what speed are you running? Can't be 611MHz.

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Ehm, just noticed your ram is DDR3; what speed are you running? Can't be 611MHz.

Why not? I don't know for sure, I just copied from Speccy. Maybe some things are excluded from it?