What would make most sense to upgrade first?

[DragonMaster141]

Hey

It's finally time to upgrade my rig.

I'm currently rocking an I7-6700k, a GTX 980TI and 16GB of ram.

 

I know no matter what I choose to upgrade, I'm going to run into a major bottleneck, but what would make the most sense to upgrade first?

 

EDIT: Forgot to add, I'm mainly using the PC for gaming.

[QuantumBlink]

3 minutes ago, DragonMaster141 said:

Hey

It's finally time to upgrade my rig.

I'm currently rocking an I7-6700k, a GTX 980TI and 16GB of ram.

 

I know no matter what I choose to upgrade, I'm going to run into a major bottleneck, but what would make the most sense to upgrade first?

I think the first question is what you use your PC for. When you upgrade your CPU, chances are you'll be on DDR5 so you'd need to upgrade your RAM anyway.

[purplepuddingcat]

Id vote for a new GPU first. I'd think it should work fine in whatever motherboard is supporting your 6700k.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 hour ago, DragonMaster141 said:

Hey

It's finally time to upgrade my rig.

I'm currently rocking an I7-6700k, a GTX 980TI and 16GB of ram.

 

I know no matter what I choose to upgrade, I'm going to run into a major bottleneck, but what would make the most sense to upgrade first?

 

EDIT: Forgot to add, I'm mainly using the PC for gaming.

Depends on what you're looking to achieve as it's pretty much the end of the road for that platform. Performance wise you wouldn't be getting the most out of any new GPU worth buying and support-wise, once Windows 10 support has run its course, it's done. So you'll have to take that into consideration to determine whether upgrading what you have now is even worth it. 

[Dukesilver27-]

I'd say, don't upgrade part by part, get a whole new PC right away.

Because what ever you upgrade is going to be bottlenecked to hell, and while you wait for the other upgrades, the price of what you upgraded before would have come down.

The only upside of upgrading part by part, is if you could at least enjoy the part you upgraded, but at this point, you might not notice the difference anyway.

So literally no sense in upgrading part by part in this case.

 

Save the money, put it on a stable mutual fund and take it out when you have enough to get a whole new PC.

By then you'd have more money due to interest, parts are cheaper compared to now, so you'd have far better PC than if you upgrade part by part.