Should I get a new CPU and Motherboard or GPU

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AdminzPlays

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I am looking to upgrade my system to either purchase a Intel Core i7 4790k with a ASRock Z97 Extreme3 LGA 1150 Intel Z97 motherboard. Or to go the other route and purchase a PNY NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 OC2 4GB GDDR5 graphics card. I am also worried about compatibilty issues if someone could make sure the components I have and may be purchasing are compatible it would be greatly appreciated! I apologize if this isn't specific enough its my first post.

My Current System Specs:

CPU: AMD FX 6350 (Stock Speeds 3.9 Ghz)
GPU: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7970
PSU: Thermal-take Smart M 750 Watt Power Supply
Ram: Kingston Hyper X Genesis 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3 1600MHZ
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case
SSD: OCZ Vertex 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
 
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Well according to Tom's Hierarchy charts the 7970 (ghz ed) and the 770 are on the same level but the 4790k and 6300 are 2 levels apart so the gpu upgrade isnt really much of an upgrade let alone worth it while the cpu would be
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

Either way you dont have any incompatibilities
 
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I don't know tons about computers but you might know is clock rate a big game changer in terms of performance I see what your saying about the GPU chart but my GPU only has an 863mhz clock rate is that bad?
 
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Ok thanks man you were really helpful :D
 
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