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Volterra_90 said:

JEMC said:

The CPU and RAM will be mostly fine until the end of this gen. Only the graphics card can give you troubles given that it's barely more powerful than a GTX 660, and that's becoming the min req. for a lot of games this gen.

If I were you, and if I was serious about gaming on PC, I'd try to upgrade to something a bit more powerful. Maybe the GTX 1060 that will launch later this year (but only after checking reviews and its real world performance).

Maybe, but I guess I'll be working with this GPU and upgrade to a new one in maybe a couple of years. I still haven't played any new game this gen (WiiU/3DS only) so I have plenty of games to keep going. I haven't got the money to make a GPU upgrade right now, but I'll probably save for one to take more advantage of my CPU. A cheap but useful one XD. Also, I'm new to this, but I read that one problem with GPUs is that if you're not careful they can burn if you twitch a lot with the settings. The GPU came OC from fabric, so I guess it's better to leave it alone? I might sound stupid, but as I said I'm new to all of this XD.

I must say that this computer wasn't used a lot, so it's like almost brand new. 

There's no rush to upgrade. I currently have an HD 5850 that's weaker than your card, but given that I don't buy new games at launch, it still serves me well.

And if you have doubts about if you can or can't run a game, there's always "can you run it"?

About overclocking, you can indeed damage your components if you go too far when you overclock but, if you're careful, you should be safe. A lot of cards come with a factory overclock, and they are under warranty, but that doesn't mean that you can't push the OC a bit more. After all, most of those cards have small overclocks just to allow the vendors to market them as "overclocked" or "faster than reference", even if the difference is small.

Oh, and one little advice, if this June will be your first Steam Sale... don't panick! You don't have to buy everything that goes on sale, even if it's cheap .