Guidance Needed with Upgrade Plan

[KJB Newman]

Hi All

 

I need some help with planning my upgrade. I'll admit my current build is very dated, I have not upgraded since I bought it bar a GPU which I was given as a B-Day present a couple months ago, hence I would like to upgrade.

 

I mainly only game with this PC, and my main game play is Rainbow Six: Siege. I have recently bought a 144mhz monitor and I would like to take full advantage of it.

 

I have the feeling that my CPU is bottling necking my GPU. From my research I think my Motherboard is near the end of life in term of supporting newer CPU's so I will likely have to upgrade the Motherboard, so I'm at the point now where I could switch to team Red if I wanted...

 

My question is would an upgrade to something like i7-4790K which is supported by my motherboard be worthwhile? or should I bite the bullet(Not that I don't want too ) and go for a larger upgrade and in a sense make future upgrades possible? 

 

Edit: Just to add, I'm not one to splash out on top end gear that would be to easy, I wouldnt be looking to spend much more than 500 - 600 euros.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Current Build

i5 - 4670K

Z97X-Gaming 5

Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 Mhz

GForce GTX 1070

Corsair RM850

 

[dizmo]

What's your budget?

It really depends on what you do with your computer, and how you feel about your current performance.

If you're not totally upset with it, I'd hold out until 2021 (just a year really) for AM5, and do a complete system rebuild.

Your motherboard hasn't supported newer CPUs for years

 

Welcome to the forum.

[KJB Newman]

4 minutes ago, dizmo said:

What's your budget?

It really depends on what you do with your computer, and how you feel about your current performance.

If you're not totally upset with it, I'd hold out until 2021 (just a year really) for AM5, and do a complete system rebuild.

Your motherboard hasn't supported newer CPUs for years

 

Welcome to the forum.

Thank you, I dunno if I could wait till 2021.

 

I don't really do anything else on the PC bar gaming, certainly not to enough to warrant a high end CPU, (I have and use my work laptop for everything else).

 

As far a budget, I'm not one really to splash out (clearly), I wouldn't want to be spending any more than €500 - €600.

[dizmo]

2 minutes ago, KJB Newman said:

Thank you, I dunno if I could wait till 2021.

 

I don't really do anything else on the PC bar gaming, certainly not to enough to warrant a high end CPU, (I have and use my work laptop for everything else).

 

As far a budget, I'm not one really to splash out (clearly), I wouldn't want to be spending any more than €500 - €600.

If your budget is that large, I'd just pick up a second gen Ryzen CPU/mobo/RAM and call it a day. Should be quite cheap.

The 3600 would be a good choice if you wanted to spend a bit more.