Advice upgrading 5 year old system

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Shakyhandz

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Is it foolish for me to invest in a 1440p 144hz monitor and a new nvidia card soon with my current i7 3820? I'm growing bored of my ancient 670 and I'd like to move on from 1080p 60hz. Ideally I would switch the card/monitor over to a new system in a year or two.

Currently I have my 3820 oc'd to 4.4
gtx 670
12gb ddr3
extreme 4 mobo

I have no issues running my games 60fps at 1080p, but im wondering if I can make a few upgrades now and be happy with 1440 without building an entire new gaming rig.
 
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The GPU takes the brunt of the hit from bumping resolution up. If you are happy with your frame rates at 1080p, you should be able to hit similar frame rates at 1440p using a sufficiently powerful GPU.
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Shakyhandz

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So essentially I dont have to worry much about the newest and next generation, I can just throw some bones down on a shiny new GPU and monitor and be happy with my resolution bump?

Honestly my old 670 does pretty well at this resolution, my cheap monitor will do 75hz and im always at my fps cap in less demanding games. so it sounds like with a new card I can do 1440 easily and take at least partial advantage of 144hz on this setup?

This has been my first pc so I'm sorry if i'm not too knowledgeable. When I bought it I didnt expect it would still be performing so well 5 or 6 years down the road haha.

 
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You can thank Intel's stagnation from the lack of effective competition for that. Because of it, most current mainstream CPUs are only marginally faster than they were five years ago, especially when they are OC'd to similar frequencies.

Before the first Core i-series, performance increased by 40% or more every year for a given price point and by the three years mark, most people were itching to upgrade due to a new PC being easily twice as fast and cheaper. Over the past six years though, Intel's CPU performance has only increased by about 50% and many price points moved up.

If you aren't itching to upgrade your CPU, you should wait to see the full impact of Ryzen, Ryzen 2 (some point next year) and ThreadRipper. Those should bring good news for both AMD and Intel CPU fans in the form of far more processing power available at more affordable prices than anything from the past six years' stagnation. I'm not itching to upgrade my i5-3470 yet, but it could happen next year if AMD fixes Ryzen's deficiencies with Ryzen 2 (a bunch of those may get addressed in a new die stepping rumored to be on its way) or Intel drops 6C6T below $200.
 
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