My Upgrade Plans: Which to buy first?

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I plan to upgrade/update my current system.

My current system:
CPU: AMD 8-Core 8350
MOBO: Biostar AMD 970 (lol I know. I went though a bad stage in my life) (Don't remind me)
GPU: MSI Twin Frozr HD7950 (on a 7970 PCB)
RAM: Corsair 8GB (4GBx2) 1600 CL9
STORAGE: 4x WD Blue HardDrive
PSU: EVGA 750watt Bronze Cert

My planned final upgrade (I will be upgrading piece by piece):
CPU: Intel i7 4790k (ALREADY PURCHASED)
MOBO: ASUS Z97-A DDR3 LGA1150 (ALREADY PURCHASED)
GPU: ASUS 'STRIX' GTX 970 (4gb)
RAM: Kingston 16GB (8GBx2) 1866 CL9
STORAGE: 1x120gb SSD + 3x500gb/1tb SSD
PSU: EVGA 750watt Bronze Cert

So, aside from the items I've already purchased- which remaining items do you believe would give me the greatest performance/stability/reliability boost? Which order do you suggest I buy the remaining items?

Edit: Also, I figured it would be a good idea to add the usage of the computer:
Massive amounts of video editing, a lot of Photoshop work, a lot of live encoding while gaming (streaming).
 
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1. GPU
2. RAM
3. SSD

Extra RAM comes in handy when you do alot of stuff in the background while gaming but the GPU...
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1. GPU
2. Storage
3. RAM
4. PSU (do you keep that?)

The GPU will increase your performance overall ALOT, since games rely on the GPU in first place.
SSD is nice to have for faster loading/booting
RAM doesnt really make a difference but additional 8gb to be on the safe side seem like a good idea. But wont increase fps for example.
 
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Yes I plan to keep the same old PSU. It's not THAT old, and it's wattage should be plenty enough to handle the lower power consumption of the i7, and the new video card.

I edited my original post, you should give that a read- and see if that changes any of your opinions or not.
 
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1. GPU
2. RAM
3. SSD

Extra RAM comes in handy when you do alot of stuff in the background while gaming but the GPU should still give you by far the most performance. id go for it like that.

E: Yep, 750w is more than enough to power that system even with everything OCd to the limits and alot of HDD/SDDs.
 
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