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Hello,
I`m upgrading after 3 years. I've got a haswell i5-4670k @ 4.2, vanilla z97 mobo, 8gb 1600 RAM and a GTX970 MSI and HDD and SSD.
That overclock is recent and that`s all my cpu can take, more than that and it gets unstable. I think that now to December is a good time to upgrade and I pretend do to it in 2 steps, one in September and another one around December.
I use the pc mainly for gaming in 1080p (60 or 144hz)
I`ll upgrade my GPU to a 1070/amd equivalent (no idea what that would be tho) on one step
and my haswell stuff (mobo, ram cpu), not sure what exact components but I`m aiming to some z170 or z270 mobo and an i7-7700k or i5-7600k. and 16bg 2400 RAM on another
Staying in haswell maybe another option that'll spend 25% less money because for some reasons i7-4770k and i7-4790k are insanely expensive here atm
I play mostly these days (the very demanding games)
BF1, Warhammer total war (total war 2 will come out this month)
and some other stuff like XCOM 2 and Fallout 4 and mass effect.
the biggest bottleneck is BF1. it kills my cpu and bothers me the most because it doesn't really matter if I up or down the graphics. but absolutely everything else is more GPU dependent and don't use all my current cpu. I think that maybe it is just a little old.
So, with the info given, what would you recommend me to do?
Should I get a 1070 now and cpu latter or get cpu/ram/mobo first (i5 or i7 or ryzen or whatelse?)?
I`m not really into the hardware news atm, so I don't know what will be realeased and when but prices don't really seem to drop. I`ll be paying the same I payed my parts 3 years back.
Thanks in advance
PS: I've got a EVO 212x cooler that`s pretty new, so I don't intend on changing that one for OC purposes very soon, but I intend to mildly overclock at least (at least I`m starting to get educated in this regard).
I`m upgrading after 3 years. I've got a haswell i5-4670k @ 4.2, vanilla z97 mobo, 8gb 1600 RAM and a GTX970 MSI and HDD and SSD.
That overclock is recent and that`s all my cpu can take, more than that and it gets unstable. I think that now to December is a good time to upgrade and I pretend do to it in 2 steps, one in September and another one around December.
I use the pc mainly for gaming in 1080p (60 or 144hz)
I`ll upgrade my GPU to a 1070/amd equivalent (no idea what that would be tho) on one step
and my haswell stuff (mobo, ram cpu), not sure what exact components but I`m aiming to some z170 or z270 mobo and an i7-7700k or i5-7600k. and 16bg 2400 RAM on another
Staying in haswell maybe another option that'll spend 25% less money because for some reasons i7-4770k and i7-4790k are insanely expensive here atm
I play mostly these days (the very demanding games)
BF1, Warhammer total war (total war 2 will come out this month)
and some other stuff like XCOM 2 and Fallout 4 and mass effect.
the biggest bottleneck is BF1. it kills my cpu and bothers me the most because it doesn't really matter if I up or down the graphics. but absolutely everything else is more GPU dependent and don't use all my current cpu. I think that maybe it is just a little old.
So, with the info given, what would you recommend me to do?
Should I get a 1070 now and cpu latter or get cpu/ram/mobo first (i5 or i7 or ryzen or whatelse?)?
I`m not really into the hardware news atm, so I don't know what will be realeased and when but prices don't really seem to drop. I`ll be paying the same I payed my parts 3 years back.
Thanks in advance
PS: I've got a EVO 212x cooler that`s pretty new, so I don't intend on changing that one for OC purposes very soon, but I intend to mildly overclock at least (at least I`m starting to get educated in this regard).
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