Is it worth upgrading my current PC with GTX 1060 ?

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Nakol

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Hey,

I have a PC with following specs:

CPU: i5-4690k 3,50GHz with Slientinium SpartanPro cooler
(not overclocked since my case has shitty air flow )

GPU: GTX 770 4GB variant (also no OC, same reason as above)

RAM: HyperX Savage 2x4GB 1600MHz DDR3 CL9

MB: MSI Z97-G55 SLI

PSU: Be quiet! SYSTEM POWER 7 700W 80+ SILVER

Do you think it is worth upgrading this PC with GTX 1060 (or maybe AMD, im open to suggestions)
or just save money and buy a new PC next year with GTX 1070.

 
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+Nakol I honestly envy your position, because you have so many amazing options:

(1) keep: i5-4690K
upgrade to: GTX 1060
upgrade to: 16 GB of DDR3 RAM

(2) upgrade to: i7-4790K (& Z97 chipset motherboard)
upgrade to: GTX 1060 or GTX 1070
upgrade to: 16 GB of DDR3 RAM

(3) upgrade to: i7-7700K (rumored to be a 4.2 GHz / 4.5 GHz base and boost clock)
upgrade to: near future 200-series chipset motherboard
upgrade to: GTX 1060 or GTX 1070
upgrade to: 16 GB or 32 GB DDR4 of RAM

* What's truly awesome about your position is whether you decide to stick with the Z97 or upgrade to the 200-series chipset, you'll still be on the "tock" platform of Intel's tick-tick-tock...
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xFeaRDom

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Looking at your system, a GPU upgrade will do nicely, either a 1060 or 1070 will be enough for a good few years, as the improvement from the 770 to the 1070 would be quite the impressive upgrade. Another upgrade you can do, is get another 8GB of RAM, and that would do quite nicely too. In my eyes, it would be a waste to just upgrade your system next year, as the 4690k is basically the exact same as the 6600k, just the 6600k would cost a lot more to upgrade to.

I would say, get another 8GB of RAM and get either a 1060 or 1070, but if you only play at 1080p, both of them cards will definitely do. I would probably say get the 1070 but its up to you.
 
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In a couple of weeks the 1050Ti will come and that card will "when looking at paper" have higher performance than 770, an upgrade to 1060 would also be really good but if you decide to get 1050Ti you can spend the extra bucks on more ram which would make your system really good for a couple of years.
 
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Nakol

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Well i dont plan on going 1440p atm. and the price for GTX 1070 which is 2000zł is much more than 1300zł for GTX 1060. Should i buy also a new PC case or just add one more fan at the front (i have already one fan in the back). Since the case is quite old it does only have 2 slots for fans (back and front of the case)
 
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The case isn't necessary, but if you get another 8GB of RAM, and as said above, the GTX 1050Ti or the 1060, and have some money left over for a new case then go ahead, it will allow more cooling no doubt. But unless you're a person who loves aesthetics, then a new case isn't 100% necessary.
 
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Worth is something only YOU can determine.

In what way is your current pc not doing the job?
Your cpu is near top of the line.
If you are cpu limited then an overclock will do you good.
That would be a good reason to buy a really good case and perhaps an effective cpu cooler.
What is your case?

If you are graphics limited, GTX1060 is only two tiers higher on tom's graphics hierarchy chart. They recommend 3 for an upgrade.
If you do not see a big boost you will be disappointed. GTX1070 would be better.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

If you have an upgrade budget and have not yet migrated to a SSD, I would generally do that first.
 
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+1 - Agree'd. The SSD upgrade was the best upgrade I've ever done, heck. I've got 6 hours to play on my computer and I don't want to waste another 3 minutes for my computer to load up, just shove that in there and load it in 30 seconds. Save a whole 2 minutes 30 seconds. Hey, I'm impatient :p SSDs are a really good upgrade, and a much more reliable option over HDDs
 
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Problem with Overclocking is that i get high temperatures even when i use "one click OC" to 3.9GHz. And that's why im trying to figure out is it worth buying a new case. Is there any software from which i can determine what's my computer bottleneck ? I already have an SSD and yes its worth buying it :p.
 
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The thing with One Click OC, is that they don't change the Voltage, and it will generally just jump over what the CPU can run 3.9GHz lets say. For example, you overclock it to 3.9GHz, but it can do that on 1.125V, but the One Click OC will set it to 1.3V, and therefore create a higher temperature. Have you tried manually overclocking it, as you can get that OC at a much lower voltage.
 
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With an aftermarket CPU cooler, you should be able to get a decent overclock out of it, not sure how good your CPU cooler is, but you should be able to get more than that quite easily. With a decent air cooler you can get at least 4.4GHz if you're lucky enough with your CPU.
 
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Nakol

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I know its kinda off-top but what would be a safe temp when heavy loaded for this CPU ? And by heavy loaded i mean gaming not heavy benchmarking with 100% CPU ussage.
 
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+Nakol I honestly envy your position, because you have so many amazing options:

(1) keep: i5-4690K
upgrade to: GTX 1060
upgrade to: 16 GB of DDR3 RAM

(2) upgrade to: i7-4790K (& Z97 chipset motherboard)
upgrade to: GTX 1060 or GTX 1070
upgrade to: 16 GB of DDR3 RAM

(3) upgrade to: i7-7700K (rumored to be a 4.2 GHz / 4.5 GHz base and boost clock)
upgrade to: near future 200-series chipset motherboard
upgrade to: GTX 1060 or GTX 1070
upgrade to: 16 GB or 32 GB DDR4 of RAM

* What's truly awesome about your position is whether you decide to stick with the Z97 or upgrade to the 200-series chipset, you'll still be on the "tock" platform of Intel's tick-tick-tock hierarchy.

*** A few CPU cooling options below ***

CRYORIG H7
$34.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4UF2DZ6565

Noctua NH-U12S
$59.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608040

EKWB EK-XLC Predator 240 AIO
159.99
https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-xlc-predator-240
https://www.ekwb.com/shop/aio/predator
* FYI: I prefer the 240 model with no quick disconnects, so that the system is sealed and doesn't require flushing out periodically.
! If you opt for i7-7700K / 200-series chipset, you need to verify compatibility with any of the above cooling solutions.
 
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AqwBroders

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I thought I7 7700k was going to be LGA 1151.
 
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