Should I change my mobo and CPU?

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Oren Stein

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I wanna know if my mobo is good enough for gaming.
I currently have this:
P8P67-m pro
Intelcore i7 2600k (3.4Ghz)
MSI GTX 970 OC
kingstone HyperX 8G ramm 1600Mhz

If I change my mobo there is no other option that switching the CPU too.
Main question is, should I switch the mobo or CPU? Or is it fine to use for now?
Everything works perfectly but I still do not have PCIe 3.0, more than x2 SATA III ports, and way more things that I might need.
Thoughts?
 
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No, you don't need to change motherboard and CPU. (because if you change one of them, you need to change the other). PCIe 2.0 x16 (the one that you have) is perfectly enough for GTX 970 even GTX 980 and dual GPU cards.

You dont need more than 2x SATA III ports. SSDs are good on SATA III while harddrives show no difference between SATA II and SATA III.

A good thing to look though is if your PSU needs a change. A PSU is the most important piece in a system.
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No, you don't need to change motherboard and CPU. (because if you change one of them, you need to change the other). PCIe 2.0 x16 (the one that you have) is perfectly enough for GTX 970 even GTX 980 and dual GPU cards.

You dont need more than 2x SATA III ports. SSDs are good on SATA III while harddrives show no difference between SATA II and SATA III.

A good thing to look though is if your PSU needs a change. A PSU is the most important piece in a system.
 
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My PSU does not require a replacement. I've won CoolerMaster V1000 lately.
Also, my HDD's say they work on SATA III and I have x3 HDD's which are the same.
And isn't the PCIe 3.0 better? Or is the difference is barely noticeable?
 
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PCIe 2.0 x16 provides the same bandwidth as PCIe 3.0 x8. And PCIe 3.0 x16 is double the bandwidth of a PCIe 2.0 x16. While it might sound a lot of a difference - in real life there is not much. There are no video cards as of now that can fully saturate a 3.0 x8 slot or 2.0 x16 slot so much that it becomes a bottleneck. With a GTX 970 - you will not notice any difference. But if you had a Titan Z for example - then there will be some difference.

HDDs do not have enough speed to saturate a SATA II port, what is left for SATA III. They will work the same. And again here as the PCIe slots, the SATA III has double the bandwidth of SATA II. Now if you had a modern SSD, you would like to plug it in a SATA III. But if it is an HDD - SATA II is more than enough.

 
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