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Lobsterparty

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Okay, so i'm building a new system for the first time ever and i wanna change components gradually.

I just upgraded GPU, going from a gtx 760 1,5gb to a gtx 1070 8gb.

I wanted to upgrade to a newer CPU, but i came to know that that would mean a new MOBO as well because of the sockets in 7 gen intel cpu's. That would mean, my ddr3 ram wouldnt be compatible with the new mobo as well, so i'd have to upgrade, cpu, mobo and ram all together, and i'm wondering if it's even worth it, as i actually just recently upgraded to a lga1151 socket mobo, (fits my current cpu) cause my old one was fried.

So my question is, where should i go from here?
Is it really worth upgrading to a 7 gen CPU, motherboard and ddr4 ram right now?

Currently i have 12gigs of ddr3 ram, and as i mentioned the corei7 4770 and a fairly cheap mobo ASRock B74 Pro3.
 
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There was a post on hardwareunboxed.com that tested a bunch of games and revealed that certain titles like Fallout4 benefits greatly from increased ram speed (up to 2666, beyond that improvements are minimal), but for the most part, it's still the CPU and GPU.
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Isokolon

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the i7-7700k isn't so much faster than the 4770 and doesn't really justify a 500$ investment

depending on your maindrive, a SSD would be the next upgrade
if you got one, it's fine.
no need for upgrades right now, wait for the next generation or the generation after that to see real benefits from different CPU architectures.

depending on how well Ryzen is doing we could see a lot of improvment in the future from having more cores and threads at hand than 4/4 or 4/8
but that's all music of the future for now
 
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FD2Raptor

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I'm of the same opinion as Isokolon. Your i7 should still hold up fine. A move to another 4c/8t i7 will not bring in enough performance increase relative to the cost and you should only consider moving to Skylake/Kabylake LGA1151 only if you'd like to have the features (or aesthetic) of those motherboard.
 
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Lobsterparty

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thx for replies! so the ram is more or less irrelevant as well? ddr3 vs ddr4.
or should i even consider upgrading ddr3 to some faster ram, if i stick with my old components?
 
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There was a post on hardwareunboxed.com that tested a bunch of games and revealed that certain titles like Fallout4 benefits greatly from increased ram speed (up to 2666, beyond that improvements are minimal), but for the most part, it's still the CPU and GPU.
 
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