Upgrade or whole new system for gaming?

[Civilian502]

Upgrade or whole new system?

Here are my system specs:

i53570k @ 3.40GHz

SeaSonic M12II 620 Bronze 620W ATX12V V2.3 / EPS 12V V2.91 SLI Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power

ZALMAN CNPS9900MAX-R 135mm Long life bearing CPU Cooler Red LED

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

G.SKILL Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C8D-8GAB

128 ssd OCZ vertex 4

* ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Western Digital Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Samsung Syncmaster T240HD monitor (it's pretty old heh)
Can I upgrade this system to play modern games on high/max settings or should i build a new system? What are the bottlenecks? Thanks for any help offered!

 

[VR PC-BUILD]

Depending on your budget, what is the max you can throw in

 

[Civilian502]

I dont know maybe like $500? I'm just curious what my bottlenecks might be and if its possible to upgrade my current system

 

[VR PC-BUILD]

There are two things you can do

1st one go for this

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI B150M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($49.99 @ Micro Center)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($55.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $300.96
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-23 06:25 EDT-0400

Use all other old components collect $200 more to make $400 and go for GTX1070. This is highly recommended as it can last very long with high settings at 1080p.

2nd option is this

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI B150M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($49.99 @ Micro Center)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($55.98 @ Newegg)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card ($259.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $560.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-23 06:52 EDT-0400

Here is GPU included which is GTX970 but it wont run games at high settings for very long at 1080p.

 

[VR PC-BUILD]

I would recommend you to collect $200 more and go for GTX1070 all other things are good no need to buy new PC.

Just list the case.

 

[Icaraeus]

That's a terrible waste of money "VR PC-BUILD" is suggesting. You do not need to upgrade CPU or motherboard. You will get zero performance improvement. You don't need to upgrade RAM either. For US$400 you can buy a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 and your PC will be much faster.

 

[VR PC-BUILD]

That's a terrible waste of money "VR PC-BUILD" is suggesting. You do not need to upgrade CPU or motherboard. You will get zero performance improvement. You don't need to upgrade RAM either. For US$400 you can buy a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 and your PC will be much faster.

Thanks for bringing up this point Icaraeus

To some extent I agree go with GTX1070 for now but ultimately u will be needing to upgrade in future but yes there is a possibility of getting next lineup of i5 in future so go for GTX1070.

It is not like you get 0% performance boost but you wont get the boost that you could get with GTX1070.

Go for GTX1070 instead of CPU and Mobo

 

[Icaraeus]

That's a terrible waste of money "VR PC-BUILD" is suggesting. You do not need to upgrade CPU or motherboard. You will get zero performance improvement. You don't need to upgrade RAM either. For US$400 you can buy a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 and your PC will be much faster.

Thanks for bringing up this point Icaraeus

To some extent I agree go with GTX1070 for now but ultimately u will be needing to upgrade in future but yes there is a possibility of getting next lineup of i5 in future so go for GTX1070.

It is not like you get 0% performance boost but you wont get the boost that you could get with GTX1070.

Go for GTX1070 instead of CPU and Mobo

I admit i did exaggerate, however you won't really notice any real improvement at all from changing CPU and motherboard

 

[VR PC-BUILD]

That's a terrible waste of money "VR PC-BUILD" is suggesting. You do not need to upgrade CPU or motherboard. You will get zero performance improvement. You don't need to upgrade RAM either. For US$400 you can buy a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 and your PC will be much faster.

Thanks for bringing up this point Icaraeus

To some extent I agree go with GTX1070 for now but ultimately u will be needing to upgrade in future but yes there is a possibility of getting next lineup of i5 in future so go for GTX1070.

It is not like you get 0% performance boost but you wont get the boost that you could get with GTX1070.

Go for GTX1070 instead of CPU and Mobo

I admit i did exaggerate, however you won't really notice any real improvement at all from changing CPU and motherboard

Yep

And it was my mistake that I did not think of advising him to upgrade GPU instead of CPU and Mobo.

Thanks for the help bro.

 

[Civilian502]

That's a terrible waste of money "VR PC-BUILD" is suggesting. You do not need to upgrade CPU or motherboard. You will get zero performance improvement. You don't need to upgrade RAM either. For US$400 you can buy a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 and your PC will be much faster.

Thanks for bringing up this point Icaraeus

To some extent I agree go with GTX1070 for now but ultimately u will be needing to upgrade in future but yes there is a possibility of getting next lineup of i5 in future so go for GTX1070.

It is not like you get 0% performance boost but you wont get the boost that you could get with GTX1070.

Go for GTX1070 instead of CPU and Mobo

I admit i did exaggerate, however you won't really notice any real improvement at all from changing CPU and motherboard

Yep

And it was my mistake that I did not think of advising him to upgrade GPU instead of CPU and Mobo.

Thanks for the help bro.

Thank you guys for all of the input. ShouldIi get another 8 gigs of ram or will that not really matter much? Any particular brand 1070 you recommend?

 

[Civilian502]

also, did the 1070's just come out? I'm not really one to purchase a card that is just released due to the high prices. Whats the best bang for the buck going from my 660ti? Thanks

 

[VR PC-BUILD]

It will be out soon and you get what you pay for
GTX1070 is one of the top cards better than GTX890 and is rumored to go head to head with Titan X. Way ahead of 660Ti
Go for it
If you still have money to spend go for 8GB RAM otherwise there is no need it is not compulsory

 

[Civilian502]

I decided to wait and save some extra cash. I've got more funds coming in for christmas. I know this thread is from May. Has anything changed? Any new recommendations? BF deals? Should i get a better monitor? Thanks all!