Should I upgrade? (CPU + MOBO + RAM)?

TheNaitsyrk

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Hiho,

I currently own:
4790K
Gigabyte GA-Z87X OC FORCE
32GB Corsair Vengeance RAM 2400Mhz

The question is...
Should I upgrade? I recently seen new CPU's that are going to be released this year (6x cores, 1x 8 core and 1x 10 core etc).
RAM upgraded to the brim so I cannot upgrade any further, and motherboard is Z87 board.

The only two reasons I'm thinking to upgrade is: new CPU, more RAM in the future if needed etc.

The only problem is: My motherboard equivalent would cost about £400 as my mobo's got water block built in and 4-way SLI support and other cool things, RAM will probably cost same, and CPU shouldn't be too expensive, but the motherboard itself is quite expensive and I'm currently saving up to get a pair of 1080TI's or new Polaris card.

Is it worth upgrading what I currently have? I overclocked the CPU to 4.8Ghz (stays like this 24/7) or I could push it to 5.0Ghz.
 
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You already have one of the best CPUs that you can get so why would you want to spend money? The likelihood is you would see very little difference in performance.
Is the computer to slow for what you do? (I am really guessing it plenty fast enough). If it does what you need it to do then don't waste your money wait for the next gen cpu before doing anything. And really what do you use 32gb of ram for. I run 16gb and game and shit and never run out of memeory.(and I don't use a swap file so everything is ram all the time)
 

TheNaitsyrk

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It's quick but I thought about future proofing. I game at 4K / do stuff at 4K and I was using 780 TI and I was borrowing real RAM 'cause VRAM couldn't keep up. Since RAM is 3 times slower than VRAM then yea... I was usually using 12GB of RAM to support 4K. I see your point though, I was just concerned about new CPUs coming out etc.

Also, motherboard equivalent of mine is about £400, so expensive...