Guidance on Upgrade Path

[TigFlipman]

Hello everyone!

 

I'm looking for guidance on how I should upgrade my computer.  Right now I've got:

 

i5 4590 on h97 mITX board; CM MasterLiquid 120mm AIO

12 GB RAM - 8x1 & 4x1 sticks, 9-9-9-24 timings @ 1600 Mhz

GTX 1070

EVGA 650 Watt Gold PSU

 

Unit is a living room PC- goals are 60 fps game play solid at or between 1440p and 1800p.  I just got a mATX case (Fractal Designs Meshify C Mini)

Games: AC: Origins, SW Battlefront 2, Cities: Skylines- whatever the Humble Monthly games are I tend to put in at least a few hours with the AAA offerings.

 

My options are to either: upgrade the processor to a used eBay Haswell i7 4770 / 4790 and add another 4 GB of ram (to 16 GB, 2x8) for at or around $150-$200 -or- upgrade the whole platform to a Ryzen 3000 series (likely) w/ 16 GB DDR4 + MB for at or around $350-$400 to build around June-July.

 

The upgrade can happen much sooner than the platform change, naturally, but don't feel like it's got the longest legs.  I wouldn't want to change the platform with the i7 option until I can get to DDR5 territory, likely 2021 or so.  I'm absolutely going to wait until after CES to better gauge the CPU landscape.

 

So, what would you do?

 

TL;DR: Upgrade Haswell platform to i7 now-ish or wait until summer for a platform change

 

Thanks for your help-

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, TigFlipman said:

My options are to either: upgrade the processor to a used eBay Haswell i7 4770 / 4790 and add another 4 GB of ram (to 16 GB, 2x8) for at or around $150-$200 -or- upgrade the whole platform to a Ryzen 3000 series (likely) w/ 16 GB DDR4 + MB for at or around $350-$400 to build around June-July.

I think this is the best path. Add hyperthreading to keep up with modern titles as well as a frequency bump, and dual channel ram for good measure. Actually, dual channel ram might be a good idea to do first, because it could increase your current CPU performance and reach your performance target unexpectedly.

[GoldenLag]

Wait untill launch of Ryzen 3000 and go with that if we at tyat point known if it is any good. Rumours are good, but im not pulling any trigger untill i see some performance numbers