I built my PC in the summer of 2013 and I haven't done anything aside from putting in a bigger SSD since then. I've been thinking of upgrading to a GeForce GTX 1070 GPU from my current Radeon 7970 (3 GB) card, but I did a Novabench test today and it said my CPU (an Intel i7-4770K 3.50 GHz w/ 8 MB cash) ranked in the 11th percentile for performance while my graphics card was in the 82nd or something.
I have 16 GB of DDR3 1600 MHz RAM. My motherboard is an Asus Z87 Pro.
Any thoughts on what I should do with my current system? Is it worth putting in a much better GPU (probably the 1070) with this CPU, or should I just wait another year or two and do a new build? Are there any other potential bottlenecks?
Thanks in advance!
P.S. I should probably add that I use my PC mostly as a media server (I run Plex and it works great as-is) and for gaming. The upgrade would obviously be geared towards gaming.
I have 16 GB of DDR3 1600 MHz RAM. My motherboard is an Asus Z87 Pro.
Any thoughts on what I should do with my current system? Is it worth putting in a much better GPU (probably the 1070) with this CPU, or should I just wait another year or two and do a new build? Are there any other potential bottlenecks?
Thanks in advance!
P.S. I should probably add that I use my PC mostly as a media server (I run Plex and it works great as-is) and for gaming. The upgrade would obviously be geared towards gaming.