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With the new Kabylake processors and 200 chipset boards about to appear. Is it worth upgrading this time around, or should I wait for the next next-gen around the perpetual corner?

Current machine is build around a Haswell i7 4770k [not overclocked though] with 32GB of stock RAM and currently has a GTA 980ti GPU card.

I'm gaming at 1080p and don't notice any problems at all with any game at all. World of Tanks for example has an on screen FPS display and that twitches between 118 and 122. It does this even when I have 5 or 6 Linux VM machines open at the same time. Pretty much every setting is on the highest setting, although I don't meddle and just let the nvidia application optimize the settings.

I want to upgrade, but I'm thinking that the component that is holding my PC back is not the CPU, GPU or RAM, but the monitor. I'm wondering is the 120 FPS could actually be a refresh limit of the monitor. So unless I get a new monitor with a higher resolution upgrading CPU, motherboard and RAM to Kabylake isn't going to change my World Of Tank or pretty much any other game experience. So I would be wiser to focus on a monitor upgrade or VR addition over any other type of upgrade.

Making sense or am I missing something?
 
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You still have a potent gaming system and as long as it still does what you want, I see no reason to upgrade it. The money, as you suggested, would be better spent on a new 2K or 4K monitor. The GTX 980 Ti can run games maxed out on 2K and most games at 4K, although settings may have to be turned down. Beyond that, I would be looking at a GPU upgrade and then the CPU when it can no longer keep up.
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You still have a potent gaming system and as long as it still does what you want, I see no reason to upgrade it. The money, as you suggested, would be better spent on a new 2K or 4K monitor. The GTX 980 Ti can run games maxed out on 2K and most games at 4K, although settings may have to be turned down. Beyond that, I would be looking at a GPU upgrade and then the CPU when it can no longer keep up.
 
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An update on this - I purchased a 3440x1440 monitor, ASUS PG348Q and initially my World Of Tanks framerate was 60fps. The monitor is 60hz as default. So I overclocked it to 100hz and the World of Tanks framerate switched 100, both with the in game FPS counter and the monitor build in counter. Conclusion: even an old i7 with a GTX 980TI at 3440x1400 copes with World Of Tanks on high. The few other games I've tried also haven't blinked an eyelid either. This is with plenty of browsers, VM's and other stuff running in the background to.

Looks like I don't need to upgrade this time around. Oh and btw, the PG348Q is an awesome monitor :)
 
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