What to upgrade next?

I like playing games, but my pc is old. I want to make little upgrade. my specs:

QuadCore AMD Phenom X4 9650, 2300 MHz (11.5 x 200)

Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe (2 PCI, 4 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)

Kingston 2G-UDIMM 2 GB DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-18 @ 400 MHz) (4-4-4-12 @ 266 MHz) (3-3-3-9 @ 200 MHz)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 GDDR5

a motherboard, cpu and ram but of course you need a good PSU to power those up..

Are you wanting to completely upgrade like 'Raident' suggested or are you wanting to add to your current setup?

You could do a vid card upgrade, but anything as powerful as a GTX 560ti is going to be overkill and your system will bottleneck the card. It Also depends on what games your play and how much your willing to spend.
Since your is already a custom build you could resuse
Case
PSU- if it's got the power needed
DVD drive
HDD
so you could get
ASrock Fatality $180 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157267
AD FX-8120 $200 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103961
8gig Gskill ripjaw x 1600 $47 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428

that with your current vid card would give you a great start, then a little later upgrade the vid card. but your looking at about another $200-300 for a vid card.
just under $500 you can get a GREAT base start, depending on your case, DVD drive (if Sata), HDD (if Sata), PSU.

Metlcub said:

You could do a vid card upgrade, but anything as powerful as a GTX 560ti is going to be overkill and your system will bottleneck the card. It Also depends on what games your play and how much your willing to spend.
Since your is already a custom build you could resuse
Case
PSU- if it's got the power needed
DVD drive
HDD
so you could get
ASrock Fatality $180 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157267
AD FX-8120 $200 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103961
8gig Gskill ripjaw x 1600 $47 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428

that with your current vid card would give you a great start, then a little later upgrade the vid card. but your looking at about another $200-300 for a vid card.
just under $500 you can get a GREAT base start, depending on your case, DVD drive (if Sata), HDD (if Sata), PSU.

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Tnx, i got now lot to think about How strong PSU i need? If i buy everything u recommend what vid should i take?

2500k $225: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072
Asrock Extreme3 gen3 $130: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157271
2x4GB Gskill $47:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428
HSF Hyper 212 Evo $35: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099

Total $437, and you take the 2500k to 4.5GHz with this cooler

With $160 more, you can add a 6870 which is already a very nice card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102948

For such a setup (overclocked), a 400w good quality PSU would do the job: 120w for the CPU (@4.5/4.6GHz), 200W for the 6870 (20%OC) and 50w for the rest of the system.

It would be best if you had some kind of budget even if its time lined like say $200 now, $100 next month, etc.

I don't know if I would go with Met's build. Its aiming at extremely high end parts for cpu\mb and if your aim is gaming video is more important.

If you really wanted minimal costs I'd get an aftermarket cpu cooler if you don't have one, try and OC up to 2.8 or so. Find 2x2gb ddr2 used on forums here or ebay. Then get another 4870 for crossfire if you got the psu to handle it. That would be in the $135-150 range I think.

A whole new system, you could always start building with cpu\mb\ram using your existing parts to finish it off then upgrade those as you go is probably better overall instead of throwing money into out of date parts.

This PSU would do $25: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139026
And if you want some headroom for xfire down the road, this one $90: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139020

That is for the config I put on my previous post.

I'd actually step up to the 500CX for a 6870+OCed 2500K, the power consumption doesn't stay that low at 4.5GHz. Other than that, great suggestions!