Fancy an Upgrade, advice please

[barbelblanker]

I currently run:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500
ASUS H170 PRO GAMING
16GB Crucial DDR4 2133 (4x4GB)
GTX 1660 Ti
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB
Seagate 1TB HDD

Fastest upgrade I can go on this motherboard is a 7700k, and they are £200+ second hand.
In real world am I actually going to see much difference?

Better to so Ryzen something with a new Motherboard, or just sit and wait?
I've been out of the PC loop really for the past couple of years and am getting lost looking at reviews and upgrade paths. Would my memory be too slow for a Ryzen 5 maybe?

I mainly use this PC for light Photoshop work, Indesign, Illustrator and gaming when I get the time.
Any ideas or suggestions welcome, thanks in advance!

 

[bagel]

What's the reason for upgrading?

I wouldn't spend £200+ on a 3 year old chip for sure, if you go ryzen you will have an upgrade path to the 4000 series too.

You do want at least 3000MHz RAM for Ryzen but you may be able to overclock yours

 

[barbelblanker]

What's the reason for upgrading?

I wouldn't spend £200+ on a 3 year old chip for sure, if you go ryzen you will have an upgrade path to the 4000 series too.

You do want at least 3000MHz RAM for Ryzen but you may be able to overclock yours

A gift from my wife for my birthday is the upgrade reason. I hadn't given it much thought before so I'm considering options and if its actually worth doing. Im not sure I would see much real world difference between my cpu and an i7, or at least not enough to be worthwhile, or am I wrong?
It would be £300 max to spend, and as an alternative I was thinking of either a bigger desk or an extra monitor.

 

[bagel]

What I mean to say is what are you wanting to improve that your system currently doesn't do well enough?

You may see a difference gaming if your CPU is hitting 100% utilisation, meaning it is bottlenecking your GPU.

I don't know what gains you'd get with the Adobe apps but I would imagine a 6+ core ryzen would comfortably outperform the quad core 7700k

 

[barbelblanker]

What I mean to say is what are you wanting to improve that your system currently doesn't do well enough?

You may see a difference gaming if your CPU is hitting 100% utilisation, meaning it is bottlenecking your GPU.

I don't know what gains you'd get with the Adobe apps but I would imagine a 6+ core ryzen would comfortably outperform the quad core 7700k

I find having a Photoshop, Indesign, Acrobat and Illustrator open and maybe a couple of browser windows things start to slow down slightly, with an occasional annoying pause. I work in Print design, so that software is pretty much a normal day.
I am not the most patient of human beings though, perhaps I'm just being unrealistic.
My PC is still pretty much OK for what I use it for, a little more speed would be good though.

Thanks for taking time to respond, its appreciated. I'm horrible at making a decision, I normally go round and round in circles then blow the budget completely. In the current climate that isnt going to happen.

 

[bagel]

Potentially could be not enough RAM causing slowdowns with that many programs open - what sort of usage do you see in task manager?

Maybe getting a bigger SSD could help too so that your Adobe apps and files you are working with are all running off that (assuming they aren't now)