Mid-High end gaming rig help?

[DesyncHD]

Hey everyone, so I have had this build for a while:

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5ghz 8Core
Motherboard: Asrock 970 Extreme3 R2.0
Memory: 16Gb DDR3
Storage: 225Gb SSD + 1TB HHD
Graphics Card: Nvidia GTX 780
Case: Coolermaster Silencio 650

And I want to know which parts you'd upgrade, if you'd keep any at all.

1. My rig will be used for playing new (next-gen) games, editing using Adobe products (Photoshop, After effects ect.) And recording using ShadowPlay (See: 5)

2. My budget is £650-700 Plus how much I can get by selling the parts I'm not using.

3. I will be buying my parts in England.

4. I would prefer that you gave me a link to <Here>

5. I would much prefer the GPU to be Nvidia.

6. I will use parts I am already using, if you think it's a good idea.

7. I will overclock if necessary.

8. My current monitor is 1920x1080 (1080p), but I may upgrade in the future.

9. I plan on building this as soon as possible.

10. I don't need any software, just hardware.

I don't need any help with the power supply or fan.
Thanks in advance.

 

[lehtv]

GTX 780 is in my opinion fast enough that upgrading it for 1080p gaming isn't a good idea just yet. It's almost as fast as GTX 970. Upgrade it when a +50% faster card is available for a few hundred £, or go SLI with two 4GB+ cards if you upgrade the monitor to 1440p or 4K.

Upgrade just the CPU and motherboard. Reuse everything else. This will drastically improve Adobe performance and remove any CPU limits you may get in CPU heavy or poorly optimized games, plus it will handle any GPU setup you throw at it in the next few years.

i7-4790K £258
Gigabyte Z97X-SLI £96
= £354

If you don't have an aftermarket CPU cooler that you can reuse, grab a Scythe Katana 4 £25 to keep the CPU quiet, or if you want to overclock it a bit, Noctua U14S is a good pick for £50.

EDIT: What power supply do you have? It might be worth upgrading just to ensure you're using a reliable unit.

 

[dkvamme]

Save a few $ and get this processor instead...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-BX806...TF8&qid=1427141426&sr=1-1&keywords=e3+1231+v3

it is an i7 without the built in gpu. You dont need a gpu, you have a video card, but you wont be able to overclock it.

 

[lehtv]

It's also lower clocked. 4790K is 4.0GHz, Xeon 1231 V3 is 3.4GHz. Comparing 4-core turbo clock, 4790K is 17% faster. That comes at a 30% price premium, but I think it's worth it when you also get the IGP (which may still come in handy) and the ability to overclock. It's not like the OP is on a tight budget.

 

[Essence_of_War]

I agree with this:

GTX 780 is in my opinion fast enough that upgrading it for 1080p gaming isn't a good idea just yet. It's almost as fast as GTX 970. Upgrade it when a +50% faster card is available for a few hundred £, or go SLI with two 4GB+ cards if you upgrade the monitor to 1440p or 4K.

Here's a coarse reference:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

If you can afford to go up three or more tiers, then you can consider upgrading. Right now the only things ~3 tiers over the 780 are dual-gpu cards. I would wait.

lehtv gave you some good advice for upgrading mobo/cpu, but if you wanted to just pocket even more money for the GPU upgrade, you could always just grab one of the after market cpu-coolers lehtv recommended and do some OC'ing w/o a platform upgrade. In addition to the NH-U14s, I also think the Scythe Mugen Max or the Scythe Kotetsu are excellent picks, and you typically have much more consistent access to them in the UK. A quick glances at those prices indicates the Mugen Max translates to ~$55 USD and I think that's a great price point for it.

The 8320s tend to OC pretty well, so you might be pleasantly surprised by what you can do with just the after market cooler. The mugen max (and other nice heatsinks like the NH-U14s) come with mounting brackets for both AMD and Intel, so you could always buy the cooler, try it out on your 8320, and if you're still itching to upgrade you could then do the platform upgrade and re-use the cooler.