I need quick upgrade advice for Gaming PC

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Madtv43

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I've decided that it is time to make a few upgrades. Lately my computer has had trouble running games on higher setting, and in general feels like it is falling behind. So what I am going to do is list what I have, and what I am looking at as replacements. What I need is someone to confirm that what I am looking at is good, and maybe make cheaper suggestions because so far it looks like it will cost more than I'd like. I do appreciate all help as I am not very knowledgeable with this stuff.

I have
i5 3470 Processor
Geforce 760 GPU
ASROCK h77 Motherboard
8gb Ram

I am looking at (I am providing newegg links as I do not know which information is pertinent)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117561

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487088

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157629

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231884

Everything else I am certain is perfectly fine, my power supply is more than large enough. I need a second hard drive, but I don't need help with that. I have looked up benchmarks and everything for the items where it is available, and they appear to be more than adequate.. I might consider just doing more smaller ram cards since the new motherboard has 4 slots. I guess what I really need to know is if there are cheaper alternatives that are just as good or better.
 
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Madtv43

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Yeah I was considering it, do you know if 8gb in the new DDR4 works significantly better than DDR3 or not? I don't actually know what the difference is. I have a feeling that what I have right now isn't good enough because when I play certain games (Notably ARK which I know is hell on system memory) it reaches max capacity and just crashes.
 
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if you have money then go for x99 build and if dont i would recomend you only buy gpu cause you are buying 6600k which is again quad core so no need of getting that cause if you buy the 6600k it will not last longer like the metal gear solid v recomended processor is 4790 which is unlockable version of 4790k
 
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Honestly if you like what you've got, I wouldn't change the CPU or mobo. The CPU you have does have 4 cores, so any current gen games that use multiple cores will run just fine and it is over 3 GHz, so no problems there either. They GPU you're looking at is just the ticket. You will more than likely not see any difference in gaming quality with different RAM, so stick with what you have. Those are my suggestions.
 
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RCFProd

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No point in waiting for a new CPU, when the i5-6600k just arrived on the market...
 
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The difference with DDR4 is ... it's DDR4. Runs at a lower voltage and uses slightly less power, but performance-wise there's nothing special about it.

In fact, since they dropped the voltage so low on DDR4, the latency is MUCH higher, so a stick of DDR4 is in fact going to run significantly slower than a stick of DDR3 at the same clock speed. (To roughly calculate the "true" speed of a stick of RAM, divide clock speed by latency - in your case, 2133/15 or 142.2. A stick of DDR3-1600 at 7 latency would give you 1600/7 or 228.57)

I was excited to get my hands on DDR4 with my new Skylake build, but after seeing the abysmal performance, I decided instead to get a Z170 board that supported DDR3 and stick with that.
 
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