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Forgot that to mention. I already thought about buying a 6700k but someone told me that its just a waste of money getting the i7 because the games do not fully use all cores. What do you think? I mean I only got i7's in my computers and they were pretty awesome...

Hey everyone, i'm currently having some problems. I want to upgrade my computer. My current setup: CPU: i7 870, 4x 2,93GHz (not overclocked, stock cooler) Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-P55 USB3 (no SLI support) Memory: 8 GB DDR3 1333MHz (4x2 bars) GPU: GTX 970 4.096 MB GDDR5 Power supply: 650 Watt Be quite SSD: Samsung EVO 840 My problems are: I've benchmarked my current system and noticed that I could have a problem. Actually I don't know. It's just an assumption. So I've used HWinfo64 and RiverTuna for my benchmark. During the benchmark I played GTA V on ULTRA (all settings are on the highest level and texture scaling is on x1.2 or so, except MSAA is turned off) with about 40FPS. Sometimes more, sometimes less. My GPU ran at about 99% utilization, my CPU at 50-60% and my memory at 60-70%. But when i tried to increase my graphics settings (don't ask me. I know that 40 FPS are okay, and even the settings are okay, but i just want more ), i've noticed that my FPS were going down to about 10 FPS and my hardware had the same utilization as before. So my assumption was that my GPU is just too "slow". Don't know how to say. As I've posted my problem in an other board they told me, to overclock the CPU or get the new Skylake generation. My ideas are: Get the a new Skylake i5 6600k with a new mainboard and 16GB of DDR4 memory and don't buy a new graphics card Get the i7 4790k with a new mainboard and 16GB of DDR3 memory and don't buy a new graphics card Get two Radeon R9 390X for Crossfire Now my questions are: Is it worth upgrading to one of the CPUs i've mentioned (without a new graphics card)? Or should i overclock my CPU and get two R9 390X for Crossfire? Of course i would get a water cooling or a big tower. And Would my CPU bottleneck the R9 390X Crossfire? What would be the better solution for me? One thing I should mention is, that I've tried to overclock my CPU to 3,37GHz (just for a short period of time, because of my cooler) and I've noticed a small FPS boost of about 5-10 FPS and an overall better system performance (faster boot etc.). Thank you. Best regards