Which part of my PC is the bottleneck?

calzila

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Sep 2, 2014
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I've had my PC for 2 years now and its still pretty amazing and carry's on being great but i know im going to have to eventually upgrade it. so for when that times comes i would like a bit of insight on what i should be upgrading first. so heres a list of all of the current components inside of my PC.

CPU: NEW! Intel Core i7 3770
CPU Cooler: NEW! Zalman CNPS9500A LED Cooler
Motherboard: NEW! Asus Maximus V Gene
RAM: NEW! 16GB Corsair 1866mhz Vengeance (4x4GB)
Hard Drive: 3TB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
Additional Storage: 2TB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 4x Blu-Ray ROM S-ATA
Graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
Case: Zalman Z9 Plus
PSU: 700W Xigmatek
 
Solution
There's really nothing necessary to upgrade for performance unless you want to go with the new Maxwell-equipped GTX 970/980 cards that have recently come out.