Worth the upgrade?

[Banksy]

Hi people,

 

ill quickly detail my system:

 

Asrock z77 Extreme 4

Core I7 2600k

AMD R9 290x

8GB of Corsair LP vengeance 1600mhz

Bequiet Dark Rock Pro 3

Corsair 800GS

Corsair Force 3 128GB SSD

3x 24" 1080p displays

 

right the question is, do you people think its worth upgrading to a 3770k for the extra bit of performance and bonus of PCI-E 3.0? do you think ill gain much performance on the 290x?

or would it be a case of upgrade to a 4000 series for a noticeable boost? 

 

mainly used for gaming, streaming, and casual work.

 

Thanks

[Oshino Shinobu]

You won't notice any difference in games, not worth it. 

[79wjd]

Your cpu is fine, and PCIe 2.0 is more than sufficient for single and even most dual card setups. 

[skullbringer]

If you are maxing out your cpu, upgrading to an i7 4790k would make sense. Depends on how heavily you utilize your cpu

[Skiiwee29]

I would say no. Current GPU's are not maxing out the bandwidth of PCI-E 2.0 so the jump to 3.0 would net 0 gain. 

[loccilucas]

nah, the 2600k is still a beast no need to upgrade for a while yet I reckon

[Banksy]

WOW that was quick, thanks guys, they only time i come close to using it all is probably when streaming, i just wondered if there was any kind of bottleneck going on for the GPU?

[Skiiwee29]

No, you wont see any bottle necking with the 2600k for streaming/gaming. I would stream with my 2500k without issue.