What next to upgrade?

[whitedragon2203]

I just recently bought a GTX 980 (Gigabye 4 Gig) and wondering, what next?

Currently I have an I7 3770k Ivy bridge @ 3.6 ghz, 24 GB of ram. 2 SSD's, and as mentioned before a GT 980X. I have 3 wonderful monitors, I guess really is it worth it for me to upgrade my CPU/Mobo yet?

 

[Ken g6]

Heat sink? That i7 isn't overclocked very much at all.

Keyboard/mouse?

 

[whitedragon2203]

I have a water cooling system a corsair

 

[Blain]

I just recently bought a GTX 980 (Gigabye 4 Gig) and wondering, what next?

Currently I have an I7 3770k Ivy bridge @ 3.6 ghz, 24 GB of ram. 2 SSD's, and as mentioned before a GT 980X. I have 3 wonderful monitors, I guess really is it worth it for me to upgrade my CPU/Mobo yet?

yes

 

[master_shake_]

yes

no why would he?

for those amazing 10-15 percent gains?

 

[mistersprinkles]

Not worth upgrading the CPU/MOBO at this point for gaming because you already have PCIE Gen 3.0 on that board/CPU.

If doing Video editing, content creation, CAD, advanced photoshop, consider a 5820K and an ASUS X99-A with some cheap 2133Mhz Micron DDR4.

 

[Blain]

no why would he?

for those amazing 10-15 percent gains?

Without any explanation or comparisons, it looks as if you've pulled numbers out of thin air.
Can you elaborate a bit more to fill in the blanks?

 

[Ken g6]

I have a water cooling system a corsair

So, is the mobo or CPU limiting your overclocking, or do you simply not want to overclock it more?

If you can't or absolutely refuse to OC, a 4790k with even a non-overclocking board might be worth the upgrade. (10-15 percent gains for the architecture, plus 11-22% for speed.)

Then again, where do the games you play fall on [thread=2389580]this list[/thread]?

 

[mfenn]

Without any explanation or comparisons, it looks as if you've pulled numbers out of thin air.
Can you elaborate a bit more to fill in the blanks?

Come on Blain, you're better than this. Here's a comparison chart.

For gaming, the differences are close to non-existent. For really-CPU limited applications like rendering, you are looking at a 20-25% gain. In my opinion, dropping ~$500 on a 4970K + mobo is only worth it if you are really hitting the CPU hard with rendering and encoding tasks and lowering your time investment directly translates to more money when performing those tasks.