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Hi guys, I'm wondering if anyone can provide any advice or suggestions as what to purchase to upgrade my old dying gaming PC.
I have a budget of around £800-£900 and will be using the RAM and PSU I already own. (Intel extreme masters DDR3 RAM and a Antec Truepower 650w PSU)

Already speaking to someone, they have suggested for me to purchase:

*Sapphire HD 7870 XT rev2.0 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
*Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W)
*MSI Z77 MPower Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
(a MSI Z77A-GD65 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard may also be an option)
*Samsung 128GB SSD 840 PRO SATA
and I have decided to the the Corsair Vengance c70 case.

I would also need a CPU cooler with this.

Does anyone have any other suggestions or recomendations?

Thanks in advance!

For that kind of budget, I'd consider an i7.

hmm, probably more hard drive space? also, make sure your components are roughly equally priced, e.g., don't buy a £500 graphics card and a £100 cpu

The big suggestion that I have, since it's been a while since I last built a machine, is that since you are planning on using a solid state drive, get some "standard" hdd's and raid them together. When you get your OS, put the OS onto the Solid State Drive, and then ALL of your files and other installations onto the normal drives.

I have never honestly needed to buy another CPU cooler, other than the standard one that comes with the CPU/mobo. However, depending on what the case comes with as far as power goes, you're gonna want a minimum 700 Watt power supply with the computer.

I build my son a gaming PC last year, with an i5 processor.

Lots of RAM is nice -- I gave him 8G. next would be the vid card, so I set him up with a 2G geforce.

Boxed it all up in a CoolerMaster case. Runs fast, quiet and cool and eats ArmA2 for lunch.

ZF-