My builds around 4+ years old now (older on some parts) and I'm looking at upgrading things that'd see significant performance bumps without being super expensive. My fps dips pretty hard in raid as well as other games and I imagine I can probably see some pretty big improvements without breaking the bank.
The current computer is:
Cpu: i5-4430
Motherboard: biostar z87w
Graphics card: asus 970 strix, I JUST inherited this when my 760 died last week, not sure but I was trying to look at comparisons and it seems like this probably doesn't need to be upgraded right now vs what I'd get for the money on the current cards? (Did notice it is rather noisy when running wow, not sure if that's a result of other bits or just the way the card is).
Ram: Some REALLY old ddr3 ram from god knows how many years ago that has been through 2 computers.
psu: corsair tx 750w
Hard drives: Corsair neutron 256gb, some 500gb mechanical hard drive I pulled out of a stock hp I think before I built my first computer many years ago. I did buy a samsung 850 evo 500gb already that I haven't put into the computer yet. Once I get the new bits I'm guessing I should probably put the OS on the samsung and then I'm wondering if I should even bother with the other 2 drives that are currently in my comp or if it'd be better to just get a new hard drive for bulk storage and just use the samsung + that vs using these older drives?
Case: I have a zalman z9 case that has a smashed in foot from dropping it when I first got it (its a lil wiggly because of that). Not sure if I should think about replacing it or not.
Also have an old disc drive that was also pulled out of said very old HP(from back when windows 7 was current) I dunno if I should bother replacing this as well or not. Haven't had any issues with it and only really use it because I keep getting the 0xc000000e error every once in a blue moon (haven't been able to figure out how to fix this) and need to pop in my windows 10 repair disc.
Monitors 1080, may upgrade in the future but not in a rush right now.
I'm in the US, I'd like to keep price down below a grand if I can help it which I imagine should be pretty easy if I'm not replacing the graphics card. I mostly play blizzard games with a heavy emphasis on raiding in wow, I'll typically have some tabs running in the background with youtube or something running. I was trying to google my way through part picking myself to see if I could figure it out on my own but got a bit lost when it came to motherboards and ram (a friend helped me build my current comp). I'm not sure what to pick and why, and the cpu battle seems to be raging between ryzen and i5 / i7 in regards to wow and I'm having a hard time finding much concrete current data (I don't really know where to look).
If you could explain why you picked certain things specifically over other things that'd be awesome as I'm very curious in what goes into the decision making process.
I did ask over on reddit and one person linked me these builds but didn't really say anything besides seeming like he really liked ryzen.
First one he linked:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/X8zFNN
Second one he linked after saying first one could be done cheaper:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dWC4f8
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!