Is it Worth upgrading CPU?

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Netreo

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3 months ago I upgraded my GPU from MSI gtx 660 gaming to MSI gtx 1060 gaming x 3G.

My current system:
CPU: i5 4440
RAM: 8Gb 1600MHz
GPU: MSI GTX 1060 gaming x 3G
MOBO: Gigabyte B85M-D2V

This system is only for gaming and documentation work. I want to know is it worth upgrading to i7 4770 or not?

P.S. Playing games on 1080p.
 
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But with the system I have right now I think there is a bottleneck where GPU is much more powerful than CPU. And games I want to play is The Witcher 3, NieR Automata, Vampyr and Prey(2017). In my opinion these games will require a much better system, but since these future titles don't have final requirements and most likely will change.
 
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The main issue is the lack of support for overclocking. Since you can't do that, a new CPU would give you a higher fps in CPU-bound games, yes. But you would need a new motherboard and RAM to support a newer architecture. Which will cost you a fair bit.

If you have the money, and you really want to play TW3 or other games that demand a good CPU on high settings to run smoothly, then I* would buy a new CPU like the 7700k. I wouldn't invest more in an outdated socket if I were you.

*Technically, I would never buy a quad-core again, personally, but I don't just play games.
 
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We have 3 gaming PC's at home, i5-4440, 4440S and 4460. All of them perform extremely well for gaming and we are not considering upgrading to an i7. So I think you're still good too!
 
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Well I guess this solves my question. I will keep my current processor for the time being until I decide to change. And I will probably upgrade from 8Gb to 16Gb of ram.
 
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Still on Socket 1150 here and I can say that a higher clocked cpu will keep you in business. I have a z97 board , 4770k stock clocks and have run a GTX 1070 and RX480 with it and i am good at 2k res for all the stuff I play.

It all depends on how long you want to keep your platform. Skylake and Kaby of course offer improvements in a lot of areas but for non overclocked gaming? Not worth the total platform change from Haswell just for that in my opinion unless you have platform specific needs (nvme, thunderbolt etc)

If you want to run your current setup into the sunset you could incrementally upgrade components even selling existing cpu or ram to help offset the costs. Used Haswell CPUs are starting to get attractive price wise as well. (got my 4770k for 200!)

Possibilities:

upgrade the cpu to that i7 4770

go to 16gb ram

that leaves plenty of headroom to push up to a GTX 1070 or Vega even if AMD gets something going on the high end. At some point your 1060 could get upgraded and the cpu/ram are good to go.

at 1080p / 60or even 144hz you will still get YEARS of gaming and home use out of Haswell. Its all bout what you feel like spending and how much at once. Good luck!
 
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Try lowering the graphical settings in the games you're unhappy with. If your framerates don't improve, you're in want of more CPU power. CPUs don't bottleneck video cards in the strictest sense, but they do set a cap for your framerate. A faster CPU can deliver more frames, it doesn't really matter what video card you have.
 
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