Thinking about upgrading, could use advice.

[MoonFrost]

I currently have:

Msi p67a-gd65(b3) motherboard

16GB gskill ddr3 ram (2x8GB)

MSI GTX 970 OCed to 1500MHz

I7 2600k OCed to 4.4Ghz

Samsung 850 Evo SSD 500GB

RM750I CORSAIR power supply

Asus 144hz monitor 

 

What I've been looking at would cost $800+ and I'm not sure if it would be worth it. I am planning to live stream and play Overwatch pretty frequently once it releases.  The upgrades that ive been looking at are: 

Msi z170a m7 motherboard

I7 6700k (I'm assuming the hyper 212 evo heat sink will fit as well on 1151 socket)

And gskill 16GB (2x8GB DDR4 memory)

 

The major things I'm concerned about is performance vs cost, I thought about upgrading to a 980ti but I think the 970 is enough for now, don't know, I've only had it a year.

The second thing is I'm not entirely sure what to do about windows. I've heard you have to reinstall when you swap significant hardware, but I have 8.1 disk and idk how I would go about doing that and then getting windows 10 again. Would I just select boot from disk in bios and insert 8.1 disk and repair? Or fresh install, would I have to somehow reformat ssd. I've never re installed Windows before so I don't know the process or correct way to do it.

 

But before all that, 2600k - 6700k worth it?

 

 

[Cyracus]

$800? i7 $375, msi z170a m7 $210, gskill tridentz ddr4 4000 ram @ $210?  There will be some performance gain but that should be manageable cpu upgrade or not, also of note is that ddr4's sweet spot is 2666-3000, above that you're wasting cash. This falls short of 4000, but you see how it peaks http://www.anandtech.com/show/8959/ddr4-haswell-e-scaling-review-2133-to-3200-with-gskill-corsair-adata-and-crucial/4  

[OnekillWalter]

i think this is a good video to watch.

[MoonFrost]

6 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

$800? i7 $375, msi z170a m7 $210, gskill tridentz ddr4 4000 ram @ $210?  There will be some performance gain but that should be manageable cpu upgrade or not, also of note is that ddr4's sweet spot is 2666-3000, above that you're wasting cash. This falls short of 4000, but you see how it peaks http://www.anandtech.com/show/8959/ddr4-haswell-e-scaling-review-2133-to-3200-with-gskill-corsair-adata-and-crucial/4  

Forgot to add the new case in too: cooler master pro 5 is 135 dollars/ cpu 380/ 65 for ram/ and 220 for motherboard

[Cyracus]

sounds much more reasonable. But like that video OneKillWalter posted shows, gaming alone won't see much of an improvement and thanks to most mmo type games having fairly low requirements, you're good on that, and streaming your video probably won't be much of an issue, but I have no experience with such nonsense  here's overwatch's required and recommended specs, http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/overwatch/12955/?p=r well below what you have already

[MoonFrost]

3 hours ago, OnekillWalter said:

i think this is a good video to watch.

That was a good video, however Im really curious on performance gain while gaming AND streaming, as streaming is very cpu intensive and some games I try to stream I lose 30fps (hopefullly overwatch will be optimized heavily so i wont have issues) I cant find any performance comparisons for games while being streamed. 

[stconquest]

@MoonFrost

 

Are you going to sell off the 2600K/motherboard and RAM, or use it elsewhere?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($374.88 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.50 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($131.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($79.88 @ OutletPC)
Total: $621.25
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-06 00:53 EST-0500

[MoonFrost]

34 minutes ago, stconquest said:

@MoonFrost

 

Are you going to sell off the 2600K/motherboard and RAM, or use it elsewhere?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($374.88 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.50 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($131.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($79.88 @ OutletPC)
Total: $621.25
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-06 00:53 EST-0500

Depending on how well a 6700K would be in terms of performance gains, I might turn it into a streaming pc and game on the skylake pc. Although Im unsure if I need a gpu in a streaming pc, I know the 2600k has intergrated graphics, but I dont think my motherboard supports that.

However I would have to purchase another windows license. I don't think I could find someone to buy this old thing for a good price, been using it everyday for 6 years or so.