Looking to upgrade my gaming PC ($1200 Budget)

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ViruH

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Looking to upgrade my Current PC to get possibly VR and 4K gameplay.
Games played:
Playing Mostly H1Z1, GTA V, and ARC.

Current Parts:
Processor: Intel i7-2700K 3.5 Ghz
Motherboard: Asus p8z77-v
GPU: Nvidia GTX 970 ASUS
Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling ZT Series 750 Watt 80+ Bronze Fully-Modular Active PFC Performance Grade ATX PC Power Supply (OCZ-ZT750W)
Storage: 3 Samsung 250 Gb SSD's
RAM:Kingston HyperX Blu 16GB Kit (2x8 GB Modules) 1600MHz 240-pin DDR3 Non-ECC CL10 Desktop Memory KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16G
Case: Corsair Graphite Series 780T Full Tower PC Case - White

Parts im looking at:

Intel Boxed Core I7-6700K 4.00 GHz 8M Processor Cache 4 LGA 1151 BX80662I76700K with Corsair Hydro Series H115i Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler Cooling


ASUS Z170-A ATX DDR4 Motherboards


Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 2400 (PC4-19200) C16 for DDR4 Systems - Black

EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB GDDR5X, RGB LED, 10CM FAN, 10 Power Phases, Double BIOS, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC) Graphics Card 08G-P4-6286-KR

Any suggestions on if these parts are worth upgrading to or not? Im torn between upgrading my processor, and GPU specifically will i see a major benefit?
 
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ViruH

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Think i should upgrade to a 1080 or wait and see if the Vega 10 is better? Also will my current motherboard even hold a 1080?
 
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Since you're interested in playing at 4K your CPU is still plenty good enough because at 4K the GPU is the bottleneck. At 1080p you would be bottlenecking a little bit but so does everything else. Even a Core i7 6950X will bottleneck some at 1080p. The part you need to focus on is the GPU. The GTX 1080 would be a nice upgrade. I would get it. I have a GTX 1080 and I tested it in a PC that has a Core i5 2500K. It did just as good as my 4770K almost. It was about 5 fps slower in grand theft auto V but those results weren't repeatable due to the random nature of the game. Generally the 2500k is 2 to 3 fps slower than my 4770k when both are using my gtx 1080 and playing in 4k. Now sense you have a Core i7 2700K I'd imagine your results would be very close to mine due to hyperthreading and the extra cache that the Core i5 2500K does not have.
 
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ViruH

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Ok sounds good, so im probably going to go with the GTX 1080 and upgrade to DDR4 RAM and wait a year tell 2017 motherboards and processors come out
 
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GTX 1080 should work just fine but i would wait for gtx 1080TI as i have gtx 1080 and most new games dont really hit the 60fps mark at 4k resolution on max setting.

 
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rMaynard2

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Who really needs max settings though? Most of the time there will be a few settings that don't really do much for you other than cut your FPS by a lot. Also this may be just me but I can't tell a difference between high and ultra settings in most games. I just do not see it. The 1080 ti won't run the games in 4K at max settings and get 60FPS either. Even the Titan X pascal can't do it.
 
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Just because you cant doesn't mean others cant by your logic we should all just game on 1080p and just get gtx 1060 why waste the money there are people that say they dont see the difference 4k vs 1080p.

 
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ViruH

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Ok sounds good I'll wait probably tell 2017 when new motherboards and processors come out and the 1080ti comes out. Thanks for the help!

 
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