Upgrade time? Planning?

[AdvancedKittyWarfer]

So these are my specs: 

System

• CPU
  Intel I7 6700
• Motherboard
  Asus Z170i pro gaming
• RAM
  Crucial 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3000MHz CL15
• GPU
  Gigabyte G1 gaming Gtx 1070
• Storage
  120gb Intenso Ssd 1tb Blue hdd 2tb Barracuda
• PSU
  Fractal Design Integra M 650W
• Cooling
  Corsair hydro H45

   

  And we all have probably heard of the new 1100's series haven't we? But should I upgrade my cpu first? and if so to what cpu? I dont want like 3% better performance or something but some actual shit worth getting because I'd have to sell my current cpu and motherboard maybe cooler? if it doesnt support the cpu and socket you advice me to get and only after that would I buy something new I will wait till black friday tho. The only problem I might get is that the mobo you advice me to get isnt available in Sweden or that it might not run my DT 990's which are a piar of 250ohm headphones.

[iRileyx]

Why are you upgrading?

 

Unless you want to play 4k or do some pretty heavy editing stuff your system is still fine.

[AdvancedKittyWarfer]

2 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

Why are you upgrading?

 

Unless you want to play 4k or do some pretty heavy editing stuff your system is still fine.

Well I upgraded my display to a 1440p one and I have a habit of wanting max settings but also getting 60fps but thats nearly impossible for me on any demanding game.

[kirashi]

7 minutes ago, AdvancedKittyWarfer said:

I dont want like 3% better performance or something but some actual shit worth getting because I'd have to sell my current cpu and motherboard maybe cooler?

Then don't upgrade for at least 1 or 2 more generations. Doing research and having built computers since 2008, I've found that although you do indeed see performance gains for certain use-cases by upgrading every generation, the gains are often not worth the money on the desktop side of things. (Laptop CPU's are a whole other story.)

 

For example, I'm still running an i7-4790K that suits my purposes absolutely fine, and even handles streaming to Twitch while playing games with my potato GPU that is a GTX 950 just fine. Now that Intel's 8th gen CPUs are out, I'm considering the price to performance gains of upgrading, but absolutely did not care about upgrading to 6th or 7th gen as the performance gains were just not worth the price at all.

 

Personally, I'd wait until the 9th gen or X gen come out (c'mon, you know they'll call it X gen because everyone has to copy Apple /s) then see how the performance stacks up, unless you have a specific use-case for the 8th gen CPU's right now.

[AdvancedKittyWarfer]

Just now, CUDAcores89 said:

Your computer is fine, I don't see any upgrades that need to be done. 

 

Now if you really want an upgrade, then do what I and a lot of other enthusiasts do. 

 

Enthusiast motherboards are derived frrm enterprise sockets that typically have a 2-4 year life cycle unlike the single year cycle and 2 year cycle for mobos that the mainstream guys get. Buy an enthusiast motherboard like Intel X299 or AMD threadripper.

 

Now this will be your base platform for the next several years, maybe even 10 years. You will have plenty of DIMM slots for future expansion and lot's of PCIe slots for future technologies like USB C. Make sure to buy a board that can use ECC registered RAM as this will be important later

 

Then when the servers are decomissioned in droves to ebay, pick up some ECC registered memory for really cheap and a new xeon processor. 

 

this is the strategy I plan to use, and I am currently on X99.

 

Don't believe me? then take a look at what the guys still on X58 did. A lot of guys out there still running X58 bought an i7 920, then when the cheap xeons hit the market in 2014, they upgraded to a Xeon X5650. Those machines are still going strong, even 10 years later.

Well problem is that I might want to switch my case. Again. If that was the case(no pun intended) I've wanted a small ITX computer so it would be easier to bring my pc anywhere especially when Dreamhack is literally 30 minutes away from me and Linus did video on Dreamhack this year about them having the fastest internet in the world.