I have OSX 10.5.8 on my Mac and a new I-phone 5S. How can I synch my contacts?

I have OSX 10.5.8 on my Mac at home and wa always happy with it. Just got a new I-phone 5S for my birthday and I can't install Itunes 11.1 to be able to synch my telephone numbers etc from my mac to my phone.
Have ordered Snow leopard from the Apple store and hope to receive it soon.
However, do I have to clear my system completely first? Could I risk losing everything on the hard drive if I install a new system?
Will Snow leopard be enough?
How do I get my operating system upto date enough for me to be able to synch my contacts to my phone?
What is the risk of me tryting to do this at home alone or would I be better off taking my Mac to an Apple store for support?
Thanks
Kolibrisin

Get more information about your computer. Go to the Apple in the upper left corner of any window, then "About This Mac". Write down what it says about "version"and report that here. Now continue to "More Info..." Copy and paste the information here, but omit the serial number and Hardware UUID (if present).
Check system requirements:
Snow Leopard 10.6 Technical Requirements - http://support.apple.com/kb/SP575
The main issue might be having too little RAM. Most computers run newer systems more smoothly with more RAM than Apple says is a "minimum" for running that system version
After installing 10.6.3 run the updater to 10.6.8, then upgrade iTunes.
Jan. 2014 post by Kappy on doing all this: https://discussions.apple.com/message/24599931
The new system should install on top of the old one. That said, things have been known to go wrong and it makes sense to do a backup before installing the new system. In fact you seem to care about your files and things so you need to always have a backup because one day you will wake up and you hard drive will be dead and everrything on it gone. Buy an external hard drive and start using Time Machine or something to back up. The other risk is when you install the new iTunes. It doesn't happen frequently given the millions of users but there are daily posts here from people who for some reason the installation wiped out their whole library. If you have a backup then there's nothing to worry about.
This is well within what many people can do at home. It's a matter of inserting an optical disc and clicking you way through menus.

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