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My gaming system has an i5 4570, GTX 760, Asus Z87-C Motherboard, Corsair CX600w PSU, Corsair Fans, CPU air cooler, and Corsair Carbide 300r Case. I want a preformance increase for gaming. What would make this a beast of a PC?
 
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this is a nice option to go with, just update the motherboards BIOS to support the new CPU chip

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.67 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 4GB WINDFORCE Video Card ($383.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($66.66 @ Newegg)
Total: $680.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-19 00:20 EDT-0400

might add a hyper 212 evo if you dont have a gd cpu cooler
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I heard rumors that the Nvidia 800 cards will release this September. Also, is my motherboard Crossfire Compatible?
 
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this is a nice option to go with, just update the motherboards BIOS to support the new CPU chip

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.67 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 4GB WINDFORCE Video Card ($383.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($66.66 @ Newegg)
Total: $680.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-19 00:20 EDT-0400

might add a hyper 212 evo if you dont have a gd cpu cooler
 
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heard that too, if you willing to wait and add more budget, you could probably get a better system, assuming you just need to get a CPU, mobo, GPU and PSU
 
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its faster and you can overclock it, new CPUs should be coming out soon too, think you could hold off with what you have for now and wait for better options with the 800 series and broadwell CPUs
 
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Well if I replace the CPU, I need a new motherboard, and RAM because of DDR4. I might as well spend some more money and build a new PC.
 
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I would buy a new video card before upgrading the CPU personally...The video card is by far where you are going to see the most noticeable improvement when you upgrade it and you still have a very good CPU that shouldn't cause much bottle-necking. If you're still unhappy with your system after the GPU upgrade then that's when I would get a new CPU.
 
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