To upgrade or not?

[thebenzeboi]

Hey, here are my current specs:

 

CPU: Intel i5-4670k 3,40 GHz

Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth Z87

GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming

RAM: Kingston Hyper X Genesis 2x4GB DDR3 1600MHz

Storage: Western Digital 2TB for storage and a 128GB Hyper X SSD as a boot drive 

PSU: Silverstone 700W Strider Essential

 

So i do a lot of gaming on my machine and recently upgraded the GPU from an asus gtx 760 to the gtx 970 and the results have been great,

but since all the other parts are a few years old and the games are getting more and more demanding, i was thinking if the new GPU is ''too good''

for some of the other parts in the rig and if some of them are bottlenecking the system.

I'm not that smart when it comes to this stuff so i decided to come and ask over here.

Thanks for any help in advance!

[AlwaysFSX]

Just overclock your CPU and you're fine.

[DarkBlade2117]

I don't see a aftermarket cooler so pretty much buy a x41 Kraken or Corsair H100i and overclock it and you should be good. Maybe a 250gb SSD and you'd have be good. No bottlenecks.

[TetraSky]

Why would you upgrade anything there...

The CPU side of things have been stagnating for years now, there's no point upgrading just to get that "10% increase". (really not much difference in gaming)

There's no bottle neck in your system, at all.

 

The only thing you might want to upgrade in the future, is the RAM, from 8GB to 16GB. But that's not for at least another year or two, when games finally start using more RAM.

[Cheese4395]

 

Hey, here are my current specs:

 

CPU: Intel i5-4670k 3,40 GHz

Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth Z87

GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming

RAM: Kingston Hyper X Genesis 2x4GB DDR3 1600MHz

Storage: Western Digital 2TB for storage and a 128GB Hyper X SSD as a boot drive 

PSU: Silverstone 700W Strider Essential

 

So i do a lot of gaming on my machine and recently upgraded the GPU from an asus gtx 760 to the gtx 970 and the results have been great,

but since all the other parts are a few years old and the games are getting more and more demanding, i was thinking if the new GPU is ''too good''

for some of the other parts in the rig and if some of them are bottlenecking the system.

I'm not that smart when it comes to this stuff so i decided to come and ask over here.

Thanks for any help in advance!

 

 

First off, welcome to the forum. Secondly, please remember to follow your own posts. @thebenzeboi

 

And lastly, you do not need to upgrade. You are perfectly fine as is. If anything you could overclock your cpu but that isn't really necessary.

[thebenzeboi]

Yeah i propably should've mentioned that i have a Cooler Master Seidon 120M watercooler for the CPU. And something i've been thinking to buy is a bigger SSD to store my games on. So i guess overclocking is the key at the moment.

[FatPenguin]

those specs are fine you can play any game on that.

[Yoinkerman]

Yeah i propably should've mentioned that i have a Cooler Master Seidon 120M watercooler for the CPU. And something i've been thinking to buy is a bigger SSD to store my games on. So i guess overclocking is the key at the moment.

The only real upgrades are a 980(ti)(titan x) or more ssds for games. Everything else is fine.

[thebenzeboi]

Ok, thanks for the help everyone!