should i upgrade my hd 7950 to a gtx 1070 or upgrade my cpu

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Mazen Medhao

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My cpu is an old i7 960 and I would like to Buy a gtx 1070 but i know my cpu so i want to upgrade my cpu to a 4790 and change the motherboard and case......So my question is which of those upgrades should i do first if i am only going to be gaming on my pc ....Keep in mind that whichever upgrade i do I would have to hold the other one for another 6 months or so
 
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I would choose to upgrade my CPU+ mobo first but would have chosen 6th gen with a Z170 chipset for the new feature set it offers.

1070 is still a very new card and after around 6 months its bound to have more mature drivers. Better aftermarket options and probably some discounts on it too.

Granted you would see a more immediate effect on your games with the graphic card but delaying it for 6 months is a more practical choice.
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If you're going to change your motherboard and case with the GTX 1070, I would say to you start your upgrade with the MOBO and CPU, but still I believe you would still run the actual games with the 1070(with bottleneck), You may receive 1%-10% of bottleneck on your GPU-CPU, your CPU is a bit of old but the requirements for a GTX 1070 is a i7 3.2Ghz CPU, it would be a go for it. I think you should go for it and wait for CPU so you can see the results.

OBS: I own a GTX 1080 with a i5 2300 2.8Ghz, I have bottleneck of a 30% I would say. It works perfectly, this month i will upgrade my PC with the new i7 6700k, ASUS B150-Plus and a lot more...
I took the same path as you have right now I'm really happy about the GTX 1080 is a great graphic card, my friend own a 1070 and got a i5 2320 and will upgrade it in the future.

Hope I was helpful.
 
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I would choose to upgrade my CPU+ mobo first but would have chosen 6th gen with a Z170 chipset for the new feature set it offers.

1070 is still a very new card and after around 6 months its bound to have more mature drivers. Better aftermarket options and probably some discounts on it too.

Granted you would see a more immediate effect on your games with the graphic card but delaying it for 6 months is a more practical choice.
 
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