Best ways to upgrade your gaming PC

I'm sort of a gaming enthusiaist when it comes to PC gaming. I dont play that many PC games but I like building a PC that can handle just about anything. I just recently
made some pretty major upgrades to my PC. Some that are easy to install and others that arent.

You wanna first make sure that whenever building your first PC you have a great case, one that you like so in the future when upgrading you wont need a new one and will have plenty of space to install your upgrades. And I like to always future proof my motherboard, meaning that when I do buy a mobo I get the best one that I can find since in the future all things connect to it and I want it to be compatible.

A very cheap and effective way to upgrade your PC is with memory. RAM is super cheap nowadays and if your mobo supports it, the is no reason not to go for 8 or 16 gb. I would personally stick to brands like Gskill or Corsair.

SSDs are all the rage now and for good reason. Get a good 120gb ssd from corsair or crucial and make your primary OS hdd and be amazed at how fast you OS boots up and how much faster your gameas load. Worth it.

Gamers sort of go hand in hand with overclockers. And there is one thing that is most important for overclockers such as myself, cooling. Without proper and exceptional cooling overclocking cannot be achieved. The most effective way of cooling is liquid cooling. Liquid cooling used to be a very expensive and time consuming journey that only the hardest of the hardcore overclockers ventured into. Nowadays however there are many chaper and easier ways to achieve liquid cooling on your cpu. Both corsair and coolit systems have made cheap and effective closed loop cooling systems for your cpu. They are easy to install and require no maintainence. However I opted to go with the XSPC water cooling kit. It is an open loop cooling kit that takes a few hours to install correctly, but I can add my gpu to the loop later on if I so choose. I can also choose specifially what kind of coolant I want to use, and what kind of waterblocks.

Last comes the graphics card. Unfortunately in this area if you want to pull no punches its gonna cost you. The latest nvidia graphics cards are almost 500 dollars. But if you drop down a model, you drop about 150 dollars in price. The 580 GTX is almost 500 but the 570 GTX is around 350. So I opted to just buy 2 of the 570s and run them in SLI to blow the 580 outta the water.

Everyone should build a PC to suit there own needs. IF you dont game at all then skip the graphics cards and invest elsewhere. But thats the beauty of a custom built PC, you can build it exactly how you want to.