New Build or Upgrade?

[AREM2326]

So at the start of college 4 years ago I bought a prebuilt Cyberpowerpc desktop to serve as my main computer and gaming rig. It has a i7-4790K, 8 gigs of DDR3 ram, and a MSI Z97 PC Mate mobo. About a year ago I upgraded it with a sata SSD boot drive and replaced the GTX 960 that it had with a GTX 1080. I use the PC for running virtual machines, VR, and 1080P gaming (though I want to try 4k soon).

 

I promised myself that after finishing college I would build myself a top of the line rig from scratch to reward myself but now that I am finished I wonder if I wouldn't be better off just upgrading some things. I want to get 16 or 32 gigs of ram (for running more VMs), a better case, a PSU from a reputable brand and possibly a set of raid drives. Would I be OK keeping the motherboard and CPU I already have though? I will be limited to DDR3 RAM, but the computer is still quite fast and I have had no trouble running games or VR since the graphics card upgrade. Are the old mobo and CPU going to hold me back in ways I am not considering? If I upgrade to a 4k or high refresh rate monitor is the old CPU likely to be a bottleneck?

 

Any opinions or advice is appreciated.

 

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49 minutes ago, AREM2326 said:

I promised myself that after finishing college I would build myself a top of the line rig from scratch to reward myself but now that I am finished I wonder if I wouldn't be better off just upgrading some things. I want to get 16 or 32 gigs of ram

does it mean a whole new rig at all cost...?

you could have a main & secondary pc . 

while new pc (ideally ryzen 3000)shall be paired with gtx1080 and keep everything as it is on 4790k/ gtx960 /8gb ram

 

only the ssd/ gpu are worth transferring / keeping for new pc... 

[jerubedo]

2 hours ago, AREM2326 said:

Would I be OK keeping the motherboard and CPU I already have though?

Yes, that is still a very capable CPU that won't bottleneck you in gaming. Not yet, at least. 

 

2 hours ago, AREM2326 said:

If I upgrade to a 4k or high refresh rate monitor is the old CPU likely to be a bottleneck?

No, not at all actually. When you go up in resolution, you get bottlenecked by the GPU, and by extension, you put less of a load on the CPU.