Memory upgrade to old system?

Hi all - long time since I've been on the boards. I'm wondering if anyone can let me know if I can upgrade my memory for the system I bought many years ago. And if so, suggestions on what to get? My system is running OK overall considering it was built in 2011. With RAM cheap, it might be worth updating?

Note I've never updated BIOS, as it's not something I'm comfortable doing/crashing everything.

i7 2600K 3.40GHz / ASUS P8Z68-V PRO 8GB DDR3 1600MHz

Thanks

Edited by KJG67 - 29 Jan 2019 at 3:03pm

My bad - I have a GTX 950 and updated the power supply CORSAIR HX850i. <updated from original reply>

I know the BIOS won't impact that, however wasn't sure if mattered with newer RAM. Obviously this is not my area of expertise :)

I agree, a new system would be ideal and I'm not desperate for one yet. Just looking for any inexpensive bridge to get me another year or two.

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll update my sig too.

Edited by KJG67 - 29 Jan 2019 at 3:26pm

Thanks both - greatly appreciate your feedback! Looks like I'll just sit tight for now and start saving!

Hey KJG67...I'll give you my two cents on this....

What do you use that 2011 DS Ode Z-68 rig for these days? You said it still runs well.....but obviously you wouldn't mind a 2019 performance refresh if it's reasonable. Think I understand...

You'll prob already be planning on a new DS rig when budget allows anyway. Lol..aren't we all?
Now clearly, as Psyoshi pointed out, a new 2019 DS rig would be the most efficient move toward current spec systems going forward. However, I still run a 2011 DS ODE P-67 Sabertooth rig, albeit with 16gb DDR3 on board. I upgraded that Ode a year ago to an EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3, and just paired it with a new Dell U3417W monitor running 3440x1440p...That Ode continues to work & play very very well ... I suspect a similar video card upgrade to a GTX 1000 series card might be the most noticeable & reasonable Ode refresh for you. Might keep you happier a bit further down the road. Nope head to head it would not benchmark as well against a brand new DS rig, but who really cares about that...?
My 2011 ODE still games very well on most games using high settings and in some things on Ultra settings....and I expect I get to continue using it until something major going out forces a full redo.    

Unless you are doing Video encoding or CAD stuff, I seriously doubt you would even detect much difference running DDR3 Ram vs DDR4 Ram. While using games or programs look at the Windows Task Manager and look at percentage RAM in use. If by chance you are using up most of your RAM capacity doing what you do now, then upgrading to 16GB of DDR3 might help your games or programs run a bit snappier than they do on the minimum 8GB...and upgrading RAM is very easy to do as long as you get RAM with exactly the same speed & timings as you are running now....but the most noticeable performance upgrade for an older mobo rig like yours would be a video card upgrade. 1080 Ti are harder to find now, but 1080, 1070 TI or 1070 would all be a bump up in GPU hierarchy over the 950 and increase onboard VRAM to 8GB.

Hope that gets you thinking again...lol...

Cool TechSpot workup on the 2600k 1080 Ti combination...!
The workhorse overclocked i7 2600k continues to be very useful for a couple more years....