nvidia 1060 upgrade/bottlenecking question

conwaysci

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Don't laugh.

I've got a i5 2500k paired with a radeon 6950.

It's currently hiccupping regularly on Ark SE with medium settings. In addition the game is beautiful but when I see youtubers screens it makes me envious how much clear their images are. Less pixelated.

I'm debating upgrading just to a 1050 or 1060 in the current rig, vs upgrading completely to a new i7. pricing on Ibuypower or cyberpowerpc suggest 1300 for a full PC with a 1060 or 1900 for a PC with a 1070. Obviously putting one of these beauties in my existing machine with a 2500 seems like a tragedy but the $240 upgrade is obviously more frugal. If the bottleneck is too ridiculous though I won't do it.
 

conwaysci

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If I don't OC the 2500K. Does that change your answer significantly? obviously there'd be at least a little more bottlenecking. Just wondering how severe.

Do you think the 1060 would be a light and day difference from the 6950? I might also be able to upgrade the ram from 8g to 16g pretty easily.