Would this upgrade be enough for consistent 4k?

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I built my first computer about two years ago and I am now looking to be upgrading pretty soon since I will be getting a 4K monitor next month.
My current components:
Asus Sabertooth Z77
i5 3570k
GTX 680SC
Corsair Vengeance 16gb ram
Corsair gold PW 800w

Now I was thinking of upgrading to maybe a 780ti but now I have been hearing about the 800 series coming out pretty soon. So I am thinking of upgrading to maybe 870SLI or 880SLI, I know the specs haven't been release yet but any honest opinion would be helpful. Would this be enough to run a game like BF4 at close to 60FPS at 4k resolution? Also should I upgrade any of my other components? If I should not upgrade my other components yet which do you think would be bottlenecking my system first in the future? Any response would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.
 
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At the moment there really isn't a configuration that does 60fps on High or better settings at 4k in regards to modern games. 880's in SLI will probably be the best thing for that once they come out but you'd have to wait and see. Right now the 295x2 or crossfire 290x's are the best at 4k due to their better memory bandwidth and buffer.

The rest of your system should be fine for gaming at 4k, although a good overclock on your cpu would probably help a bit if you plan on going SLI or crossfire.
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At the moment there really isn't a configuration that does 60fps on High or better settings at 4k in regards to modern games. 880's in SLI will probably be the best thing for that once they come out but you'd have to wait and see. Right now the 295x2 or crossfire 290x's are the best at 4k due to their better memory bandwidth and buffer.

The rest of your system should be fine for gaming at 4k, although a good overclock on your cpu would probably help a bit if you plan on going SLI or crossfire.
 
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2 big things Baazing is on point with the vid cards, but have you thought of the monitors your still looking at $2000+ for a true 4K monitor like the ASUS PQ321Q, now acer has one coming out soon that will be around $1200 but a smaller screen. Don't be fooled by these other "4K" monitors that are under $1500, the pixels they claim are nice, but they are not the real deal.

You also have to ask yourself how much are you willing to spend, and the fact that much of the content is not scaled for 4K, even movies they cail 4K are not...

Think of getting 3 27" 2560x1440 WQHD monitors and running them eyefinity... Just a thought

Now 4K will rise, but till that time it is just not worth it.

Microsoft completed a test with Asus on getting real 4K gaming, the rig cost them around $15K to get it to work flawlessly...

 
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