Piece of advice please

[iAzriel]

Hey all,

 

I quite know the answer but a post wouldn't hurt, to get more opinions. So my current rig is as follows:

 

Intel Core i7 4790 (not the K one)

Asus Maximus VII Ranger (Z97 chipset)

16GB (2x8GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz, Timing: 9-9-9-24

Palit 970 Jetstream

Samsung 850 Pro, 256GB SATA 3

 

I recently bought a 4K Asus MX27UQ monitor cause of a really really REALLY once in a lifetime good bargain from a friend's friend. While at full HD, my gaming was fluent (60 fps easily in every game with Ultra/Nightmare/Hellish/OMFG settings), I found out that this was not of course the case in 4K. Medium settings with AA off and yet an average of ~40 fps in games at best (Witcher 3 etc). As the monitor is 60Hz, 60 fps is my cap, so I don't care going beyond that, my kind of gaming anyways doesn't consist of fast games. 

 

So, I have 3 choices now where I live financiallywise. First, selling my graphics cards and spending another 700€ to get an Asus 1080 Ti OC. Pretty straightforward. Potential bottleneck?

 

Second option, wait for Volta next year and going for a similarly priced (?) card in 2018, thinking again though of potential bottlenecks maybe like the above case?

 

 Third, selling my rig, giving an extra 250€ for an i7 7700K (or newer whatever Intel announces), Asus Maximus VIII Ranger and 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 CL16 2666MHz. Settle down a bit with the 970 for now and going for a Volta next year, maybe a 2070 instead of going all out now with the 1080 Ti. More balanced rig and around the money a 1080 Ti wants now.

 

I will be very grateful to listen to your opinion, will be truly appreciated. Cheers!

[YuriNator557]

I'd probably sell the 970 and wait for Volta, or I'd buy the 1080ti if i was impatient

[dizmo]

I'd just play at 1080p for now and upgrade around either Black Friday if it's popular in your country, or next year once prices have settled a bit. You'll pay a lot more for things like SSD, RAM, and video cards due to the NAND shortage.

[QuantumBit]

27 minutes ago, idiot42 said:

I'd probably sell the 970 and wait for Volta, or I'd buy the 1080ti if i was impatient

Volta aint coming out for a while.

[paddy-stone]

15 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I'd just play at 1080p for now and upgrade around either Black Friday if it's popular in your country, or next year once prices have settled a bit. You'll pay a lot more for things like SSD, RAM, and video cards due to the NAND shortage.

Have to agree here, if you were happy before at 1080p and now you have a 4k monitor it seems worse, just set your monitor to 1080p while gaming might be a better way of going about it for now. Then next year if/when volta drops see about upgrading the GPU and maybe CPU to allow you to game in 4K at decent framerate.