Wheres the bottleneck, what to upgrade ?

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Hi!
Heres my PC spec`s
Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 (ATX, LGA 1150)
MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G Twin Frozr V
Intel Core i5-4460 (Boxed, LGA 1150 Haswell Refresh)
Kingston HyperX Fury Black 2 x 4 GB (DDR3, 1866 Mhz, CL10)
EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G2 (80Plus Gold)

I want better game performance (playing Escape from Tarkov)

Dont have a huge budget, but what should i upgrade first, the processor or GPU ?
Been looking at i7-4790 and GTX 1070
 
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FabioXN7
Exactly, going for 7th gen processors or AMD Rysen would be more expensive and yes it means replacing mobo and RAM. Since you are still going for the 4TH then I would personally go with GPU first since most of games are using more VRAM to run at ultra settings and then replace the CPU after when I get the money for it.

Regarding your question. Simply answer is "YES" it supports overclock but you should take a look at this thread -

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3218468/overclock-4790k-z97p.html
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If you are not going for the new 7th gen Intel processors or any AMD Rysen series I would say that the I7 4790 will be a great pair with either a 1070 or 1080 if you can since it's still a great CPU from 4th gen. The problem here is that your current CPU is not Overclockable, you could go with a 1070, any video card above that like a 1080 will bottleneck the CPU in some games... I can relate that myself. So in this case if you could afford both it would be great, but since you are low on budget then get a GTX 1070, it will be great and the bottleneck will be very little. (I mean little because depending on the game like Battlefield 1 you could experience some fps drop due game being intensive on CPU use) but for most of the games out there you should be perfectly fine.
 
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goldwyn89

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Thanks for the answear!
But getting new 7th generation would mean i would have also have to change motherboard and ram to get LGA1151 = might aswell build whole new pc, but cant afford that.

Also not sure if the current mobo is able to overlock ? also ive never overclocked anything before.
So if you had to choose to upgrade 1 part , would it be cpu or gpu ?
 
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Exactly, going for 7th gen processors or AMD Rysen would be more expensive and yes it means replacing mobo and RAM. Since you are still going for the 4TH then I would personally go with GPU first since most of games are using more VRAM to run at ultra settings and then replace the CPU after when I get the money for it.

Regarding your question. Simply answer is "YES" it supports overclock but you should take a look at this thread -

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3218468/overclock-4790k-z97p.html
 
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All reasonable replies are welcome! :) but think im going for Gtx 1070 soon, Then i7 4790 or maybe 4790k and try my luck with overclocking, need to figure out temps n shit ? got alot of overclocking stuff to learn..
 
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