Upgrading 4+ Year Old PC

[deepblue22]

Hi all, my current 4+ year old rig has been giving me some problems, like random shutdowns, BSOD etc... Am currently thinking of whether to upgrade or not. Planning to use on 2 monitors for surfing, streaming, downloading stuffs, mid - end gaming etc

My current specs:
MSI P55-GD65 (MS-7583)
i5 750 @ 2.67GHz
4 x 2048 DDR3-SDRAM
AMD Radeon HD 5800 Series
Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB ATA Device (250GB)
Western Digital WD5001AALS-00L3B2 ATA Device (500GB)
Samsung DVD Drive
PSU Silverstone 500W
CM690
Windows 7 Home Premium Home Edition (64-bit)
Windows Performance Index : 7.1 on 7.9

Planning to get:
i5 4670 & Gigabyte H87-D3H
G.Skill DDR3-1600MHz 8GB (2X4GB)
Gigabyte GTX 760 2GB Winforce OC or Gigabyte GTX 660 Ti
Use back old SSD
HDD 2TB for Storage
Samsung SATA 24X DVD Rewriter
Superflower HX 600
Use back old casing

Would really appreciate some kind bros input here Thanks in advance!

 

[MoneyFace =p]

Hi all, my current 4+ year old rig has been giving me some problems, like random shutdowns, BSOD etc... Am currently thinking of whether to upgrade or not. Planning to use on 2 monitors for surfing, streaming, downloading stuffs, mid - end gaming etc

Perhaps you should check Event Viewer or Reliability Monitor for root of cause first?

 

[bermudas]

I do agree with Moneyface above.

My PC is 7-years old this year, running on Core2Duo E6600 proc and Win 7 32-bit. I am thinking of upgrading to Win 7 64-bit though since my 4GB of RAM is recognised as 3GB only. Like you, i only do surfing, streaming, downloading etc. Except gaming. But i do some light video/picture-editing using Ulead, Premiere, Photoshop etc.

Perhaps you should consider a clean reformat of your OS instead of upgrading. Highly-dependent on your needs tho.