£1500-£2000 Budget on new build

XavierCastiel

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I would like my next system build to be 4K, currently at 1440P, for me it's all running a bit poorly. Time to make some changes.

The budget above is for the rig only, the monitor can be bought on top of the budget separately, the only trouble is I cannot find any 144HZ 4K monitors, are there any out yet :o? I remember reading articles about 9 to 12 months ago about 144HZ options, I may be forced to stick with the 1440P 144HZ for the forseeable future if 60HZ is the only option at the moment.

I still want to upgrade regardless. Not overly impressed with my current system performance at 1440P. Running games at exceedingly high fps or playing brand new games at 60 ish fps is important to me. On the current system I'm seeing my fair share of dips at 1440P, 30-40 fps bad or stutters below 60, forcing me to spend lots of free time tweaking settings to get decent performance at the cost of graphic visuals. Last upgrade to the current system will be 2 years in January 2017, definitely needs some new life breathing into it.

Current spec

GTX 980 G1 GPU

Overclockers Overclocked bundle at the 4 below

Intel Core I7 4790K @ 4.6GHz CPU
Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force Motherboard
16GB Dual Channel DDR3 2133MHZ RAM
Asetek 570XL 240MM Cooler

EVGA SuperNova G2 1000W Power-Supply
NZXT H440 Midi-Tower Case
Asus Rog Swift PG278Q 1440P 144HZ Gsync monitor
2TB HDD
1TB HDD
250GB Samsung 840 Evo SSD
500GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD
Razer BlackWidow Chroma Keyboard
Razer Deathadder Mouse
Windows 10 Operating System

What I would like next would be 4K + DDR4 CPU/MOBO, maybe 32GB of RAM + Higher VRAM GPU card, something better than the 980 for higher resolutions. The 1080 or 1080TI (not yet released are much better than the current spec card, DDR3 vs DDR4. Is the 6 or even 7 series yet to be released much better than what I currently have? Cost of replacements is no issue for me, I need some direction on the best options. The rest would be optional I guess :P. Storages, peripherals, Power-Supply seem fine.

If I have posted this in the wrong section could a moderator kindly move it elsewhere, cheers.
 
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as above, you'll see virtually no improvement going from a 4790k to a 6700k specially at higher resolutions as you'll be very GPU limited.

The best you can do, if you want 4k with a high frame rate max settings, would be to wait for the 1080ti or what ever the next big GPU is, as even the 1080 struggles from time to time.

Could blow just about your whole budget on a titan xp I guess, but while it can push the pixels its way way over priced for what you get.
 
Oh, well I will stay with 1440P 144HZ until 4K resolution options with 144HZ begin to hit the market.

As for the 1080TI I guess I can wait a bit longer for the release, that one should run beautifully at 1440P, and the higher VRAM does have me shivering with excitement lol, never felt 4GB was enough with the 9 series, 980TI / Titan X aside.

Does anyone have any news on the I7 7000 series line in comparison with the 4790K? Most of my time online is gaming, browsing, applicartion packages like rendering, image editing software etc. Or am I good staying where I am for a while lol. The only reason I ever push for more is because I'm a few generations behind and still stuck with DDR3 instead of DDR4, I tend to like being on the newer or newest tech.
 
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Early reports on the i7 7700k are a little disappointing only very marginal improvements on the last couple generations. In real world gaming it really makes next to no difference. Hopefully if AMD can sort its self out the ryzen stuff coming in the new year will at least offer cheaper 6 and 8 core options with similar performance to the intel offerings. But even then the vast majority of games won't make use of the extra cores.

There's a lot of us in the same boat at the moment. There's just no good reason to upgrade to newer CPUs even with the 2nd and 3rd gen i7s.
 
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