What should i upgrade?

[Crunken]

So i bought a pre-built pc about 3 years ago, then switched graphic's card and case, but was wondering if there's something i should upgrade for the future. I'm planning on playing most new games that are gonna come out and would like to play in high-ultra with nice fps and med-high in games such as BF1 when i need more fps

 

Playing in 1080p at 144hz

 

Mobo : MSI Gaming 3 H97 
Graphics Card : ASUS Strix GTX 970 4GB 
RAM : 8GB From Corsair 
CPU : Intel i7 4770 3.9 Ghz 
Harddrives/SSD's : Kingston SSDNOW 120GB, WD Blue 1TB and Samsung 850 Evo 240gb 
Case : Fractal Design Define R5 Windows Black 
Monitor : BenQ XL2411Z and Dell ST2410 
Keyboard : Corsair K70 Red Switched 
Mouse : QPAD 8k Laser RGB 
Headset : HyperX Cloud Gaming 2 

[HKZeroFive]

Power supply?

I'd probably chuck in another 8GB of RAM and call it quits. The GTX 970 should still be capable for now to run smoothly at those aforementioned settings unless you're trying to utilise the full potential of that 144Hz refresh rate of your monitor.

[Crunken]

2 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

Power supply?

I'd probably chuck in another 8GB of RAM and call it quits. The GTX 970 should still be capable for now to run smoothly at those aforementioned settings unless you're trying to utilise the full potential of that 144Hz refresh rate of your monitor.

Oh, i always forget to add that  i got a Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 550W PSU

 

And i'd like to get utilize as much of my screen as possible while still having good looking settings ingame (although most settings look good nowadays)

[Nacho Marco Segui]

I would get a new gpu, the 1070 would be perfect

[HKZeroFive]

4 minutes ago, Crunken said:

Oh, i always forget to add that  i got a Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 550W PSU

 

And i'd like to get utilize as much of my screen as possible while still having good looking settings ingame (although most settings look good nowadays)

If you want to try out 1080p 144Hz gaming, then the GTX 1070 should be a good choice. Otherwise, I still think the GTX 970 is good enough for achieving a constant 60FPS at high-max settings for the majority of games at 1080p.

[Crunken]

Just now, Nacho Marco Segui said:

I would get a new gpu, the 1070 would be perfect

Yeah, I've been considering that

 

Will the CPU bottleneck or is it good enough for a 1070?

[Crunken]

Also which 1070? 

[ARikozuM]

14 minutes ago, Crunken said:

Yeah, I've been considering that

 

Will the CPU bottleneck or is it good enough for a 1070?

CPU will not bottleneck a 1070 or 1080 since the GPU's won't work harder if they don't need to.

[Matias_Chambers]

Budget for the upgrade? I would upgrade to 16 GB's of RAM and get a GTX 1070/1080. 

[Crunken]

Just now, Matias_Chambers said:

Budget for the upgrade? I would upgrade to 16 GB's of RAM and get a GTX 1070/1080. 

Well no "real" budget at the moment, but not really in the market for a 5000$ card

 

Would a 1080 be worth it for 1080p gaming though? otherwise i'd have to get new monitor and such, and that means longer time to save up money,

 

i can save about 100-150$ a month for PC parts

[Crunken]

Just now, Matias_Chambers said:

Budget for the upgrade? I would upgrade to 16 GB's of RAM and get a GTX 1070/1080. 

Well no "real" budget at the moment, but not really in the market for a 5000$ card

 

Would a 1080 be worth it for 1080p gaming though? otherwise i'd have to get new monitor and such, and that means longer time to save up money,

 

i can save about 100-150$ a month for PC parts

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, Crunken said:

Well no "real" budget at the moment, but not really in the market for a 5000$ card

 

Would a 1080 be worth it for 1080p gaming though? otherwise i'd have to get new monitor and such, and that means longer time to save up money,

 

i can save about 100-150$ a month for PC parts

Do you see yourself upgrading your monitor soon?

[Matias_Chambers]

4 minutes ago, Crunken said:

Well no "real" budget at the moment, but not really in the market for a 5000$ card

 

Would a 1080 be worth it for 1080p gaming though? otherwise i'd have to get new monitor and such, and that means longer time to save up money,

 

i can save about 100-150$ a month for PC parts

The 1080 isn't really worth it for 1080p. I would go with the 1070 unless you plan on upgrading your monitor soon. 

[Crunken]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

Do you see yourself upgrading your monitor soon?

Don't really have any complaints on my current one, but i don't see why i couldn't upgrade. would have to save for quite a while though, but would be nice with 144hz 1440p

[Crunken]

3 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

The 1080 isn't really worth it for 1080p. I would go with the 1070 unless you plan on upgrading your monitor soon. 

1080 with my system though? feels like it would bottleneck, not sure though

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, Crunken said:

1080 with my system though? feels like it would bottleneck, not sure though

It wouldn't have to work as hard to draw the frames, but there is no bottleneck.

 

6 minutes ago, Crunken said:

Don't really have any complaints on my current one, but i don't see why i couldn't upgrade. would have to save for quite a while though, but would be nice with 144hz 1440p

In this case, I'd get a 1070 and save the extra for an upgrade or buy the 1080 and use DSR whenever possible.

[Crunken]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

use DSR whenever possible.

DSR?

 

Probably gonna get a 1070 and 16gb ram then

[ARikozuM]

4 minutes ago, Crunken said:

DSR?

 

Probably gonna get a 1070 and 16gb ram then

Dynamic Super Resolution. You'll process frames in 1440 and then downscale them to 1080 for better draws.

[Matias_Chambers]

11 minutes ago, Crunken said:

1080 with my system though? feels like it would bottleneck, not sure though

It shouldn't bottleneck but the 1080 isn't worth it for 1080p.

[Crunken]

2 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

It shouldn't bottleneck but the 1080 isn't worth it for 1080p.

Not sure what i should do/what's worth it the most, 1080 with 1440p monitor would be nice but that's almost a years worth of saving, 1070 i could get by the end of this year though

[ARikozuM]

1070 is designed for 1440 and should have no issue hitting 60fps or more if you lower AA as it's inefficient when increasing the resolution.

[Crunken]

Probably gonna get a 1070 and max out games with 140ish fps in most games with my current monitor

[Matias_Chambers]

9 minutes ago, Crunken said:

Not sure what i should do/what's worth it the most, 1080 with 1440p monitor would be nice but that's almost a years worth of saving, 1070 i could get by the end of this year though

I would just go with the 1070 and 16 GB's of RAM if I was you. 

[Crunken]

3 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

I would just go with the 1070 and 16 GB's of RAM if I was you. 

Yeah, gonna do that, thanks for all the help guys