Is my i5-2500k holding me back?

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Scottmt80

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I'm not happy with recent performance and I'm wondering if a new CPU, mobo and RAM is the answer. My priority is gaming. I don't need the highest settings but I would like to be able to hit 60 FPS at average to above average settings. For a long time I've been very satisfied with my PC but a few recent games have me wanting more.

Current Build:
Win 10
i5-2500k (oc at 4.2 GHz)
16 GB RAM
GTX 970 - 4GB
650 watt PSU

So the main question is: will upgrading to say, an i5-8400 with the mandatory mobo and RAM be a worthwhile expense. Maybe I'm wrong but I feel like my graphics card is strong enough to meet my needs.

Games like the new Monster Hunter I'm having to really sacrifice looks for frames. I've been watching my performance on the task manager and both CPU and GPU are running at 100%

To be clear, I do not want to upgrade, but I will if I have to. If I do, I want it to be worthwhile. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
 
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For pics you need to use 3rd party host like postimages.org or imgur.

Those temps are fine for Sandy's. But at 100% usage you are getting throttled. Try going into nvidia control panel and dropping grass detail, also cut way down on viewing distance. Both those are heavily cpu bound
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You have a 4core i5. Many new games are capped somewhat by the 5GHz possible on new cpus, so IPC strong isn't cutting it as much as core usage is. So you'll find in many new, very cpu intensive games, high fps types, that they'll be optimized for 6 or more threads. They'll play on 4, if the IPC is strong enough, gta5 is a good example, but to really open up the fps, you'd need to be looking at pre-coffelake i7's or CoffeeLake i5's or better. This is one of the reasons that made the budget Ryzen R5 1600 such a strong cpu, skylake equitable IPC with CoffeeLake thread counts at a fraction of the i7 cost.
 
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I grabbed that while running monster hunter.

Right now my gaming rotation is Monster Hunter, Dead Cells, No Man Sky, etc
Most of what I play doesn't tax the system too hard but Monster Hunter and even No mans sky are really pushing it.

Edit: doesn't look like I posted my screen shot correctly
cpu temps were ranging from 62-68 C while running monster hunter
gpu was 62-66 C
both were running 100%
 
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For pics you need to use 3rd party host like postimages.org or imgur.

Those temps are fine for Sandy's. But at 100% usage you are getting throttled. Try going into nvidia control panel and dropping grass detail, also cut way down on viewing distance. Both those are heavily cpu bound
 
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