What sort of differences should I experience in gaming after these upgrades?

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sterlin22

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Current Rig:

Micro-ATX Intel mobo (came with a pre-built chitty Asus CM6730 Essentio desktop, which was my basis for my computer 2-3 years ago, and have been upgrading since, but leaving this motherboard behind)

GTX 970 4GB FTW ACX 2.0 (I overclock it to about 1350 mhz, but I can get 1500 mhz)

I5-2310 2.9ghz Sandy Bridge Quad Core

8GB DDR3 1333 Mhz

1TB 7200 RPM HDD

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit

Corsair GS 700 Watt PSU

Cooler Master Storm Enforcer Medium ATX Case

I just ordered the following parts:

i7-4790k 4.0 ghz Haswell Quad Core

Gigabyte Z97X UD5H MOBO

Guess these are the main questions:

1) What performance increase should I see with this new CPU upgrade?

2) Does the fact I'm replacing an old chitty motherboard do anything to help boost performance by itself?
 
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The guy asked a question and i see no reason to not give him an honest answer.

For normal use and gaming he will see absolutely no difference. Encoding and other functions he will see gains.

Buy whatever memory is cheapest. Unless you are using a very memory senstive application the difference between 1333 and anything is almost unnoticable.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/memory-bandwidth-latency-gaming,review-32618-6.html

As for the cpu , ya you wont notice anything. See how the 2500 is no slower than the 4th gen i7, heck even the orrigina i7 920 at 2.6ghz almost keeps up. So again unless you have an application that uses hyperthreading then no noticable difference...
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You frankly most likely will not notice any difference under most circumstances.

While the i7 is technically faster and will of course benchmark better. The chances of you seeing a noticeable fps gain or general improvement period are next to none. An exception to that would be lets say something like ray tracing or encoding where you would see the extra clock speed and threads come into play.

The motherboard will give you access to newer features but going from pcie2 to 3 with what you have will show nothing different. You also just gained access to native sata3, m.2, ect which is nice. But nothing you will notice until you buy parts that work with them.

Intel cpus starting from original I generation forward have not seen significant clock for clock increases. DDR3 1333 compared to DDR3 1866 will also again not be noticeable outside of a few specific scenarios.

If you wanted to notice a difference you were better off buying an SSD as that would have made the biggest impact on your system.
 
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iron8orn

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jeeze way to make someone frown kras haha

The i7 will give significant difference in games like bf4, watchdogs, unity and will be great for live streaming also.

Some games gets memory intensive so a nice kit can help.. maybe like a tridentx 2400mhz cas 10.. they are beast.

And of course as mentioned the ssd will be like night and day.
 
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Kraszmyl,

I appreciate the response. I'm hoping for a noticeable difference in games where long distance rendering is exploited, like Arma 3, DayZ, Battlefield 4, Tom Clancy's The Division, Metal Gear Solid: Phantom Pain, heck maybe even Dragon Age.

If not then that's fine, I'm just glad to have these upgrades regardless.

I'm aware of the SATA / M.2 upgrades, I didn't just say "Well this is LGA 1150 so I'll get it."

SSD, Windows 8.1 64 bit, and an upgrade to 16GB RAM are what I'm after next.

Iron8orn,

I appreciate your response as well. Gave me a glimmer of hope that my experiences on this here computer will be changed, at least a little.

RAM seems sketchy, I have friends saying that 8GB 1333 is all that anyone needs and will need for a long time, then I got others suggesting I upgrade to 16GB with 2133+ speeds. Very ambiguous topic, I'd love to see some RAM benchmarks, if that's even a thing.

 
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Also another thing I wanted to quickly touch base on. I noticed that the Gigabyte Z97x UD5H has "Realtek ALC1150 115dB SNR HD Audio" which is supposed to be extra good, perhaps something I'm not used to with my current system since the motherboard is crappy and old, and I'm using a plantroics gamecom 780 headset.
 
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iron8orn

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:) they make some nice headphones

well there are benchmarks you can look at for memory but the fact is some games just get memory intensive and the ram you have will make a difference plus you have a i7 that will run many programs on several monitors and better ram will help with that too.
 
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The guy asked a question and i see no reason to not give him an honest answer.

For normal use and gaming he will see absolutely no difference. Encoding and other functions he will see gains.

Buy whatever memory is cheapest. Unless you are using a very memory senstive application the difference between 1333 and anything is almost unnoticable.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/memory-bandwidth-latency-gaming,review-32618-6.html

As for the cpu , ya you wont notice anything. See how the 2500 is no slower than the 4th gen i7, heck even the orrigina i7 920 at 2.6ghz almost keeps up. So again unless you have an application that uses hyperthreading then no noticable difference.

http://anandtech.com/show/7189/choosing-a-gaming-cpu-september-2013/8

And no and i7 doesnt make a difference in bf4 or pretty much any game. Infact they lose to quadcores and even then the difference again is almost non existant.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-4-graphics-card-performance,3634-10.html

So just buy whatever random memory kit you feel like that has a solid warranty and youre fine. Also get that SSD and then you will see a real difference.

Ya iron8orn it might not be rosy information but the guy asked and im not going to make up stuff to make some one feel better.

Edit

Personally I think its a nicer audio solution but my audiophile friends say I'm nuts so that seems very subjective. However I believe anandtech or toms did a review of it if you care to see exacts.
 
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