Gaming PC upgrade?

[Tombles]

Hi all

I was wondering if I would gain much in terms of upgrading my current PC for around £1,000. I already have a 1440p 144hz G-Sync monitor so would like to stick with an Nvidia card if I got a new one. My current system is:


Zotac GeForce GTX 980Ti AMP Edition

HyperX 16GB 1600Mhz CL9 DDR3 HyperX Beast (2 x 8GB)

Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H Intel LGA1150 Z97 ATX Motherboard

Intel Core i5-4690K CPU

Be Quiet BK018 Dark Rock 3 CPU Cooler

Samsung EVO 500gb SSD

SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply

Fractal Design Define R5 Black Pearl case with window side panel


Any suggestions on what would be a worthwhile upgrade that would provide a noticeable difference in games(if any)?

Thanks

 

[tamzzy]

a second hand 4790k, and then overclocking it would tide you over the next 12-18 months or so, before you'll need to do a full overhaul.
if you can get the 4790k for ~£150. this will be the best bang-for-buck upgrade, CPU wise.
anything else would mean you need to buy a new mobo and ram as well.

980ti is just a bit (~10%) slower than the new RTX2060, with the same amount of VRAM.
2070 is going to be a bit of a pointless upgrade IMHO (others may disagree)
so leaves the 2080 that costs £650-700, or a 2080ti that costs ~£1100.

so, tl;dr: for the budget, get a second hand 4790k for ~£150 and a RTX2080.

 

[EsaT]

Yep, that GPU is still quite good and you would have to pay quite a lot to get actually significant upgrade.
(let's hope we'll have proper competition in GPUs year from now...)

Also on CPU side there aren't really much of actually good options at the moment.
4790K would be drop in update and with higher clocks and hyperthreading give some room, but difference isn't significant to warrant paying bigger prices from it.
Would keep £150 already too high.

At summer we might have basically 9900K equal CPU in £200-250 price level and one with 12 cores/24 threads hundred above that.
That would be something to keep PC going long time when multiplatter games made for next-gen consoles arrive.
Would recommend waiting for that time on CPU side upgrade.

 

[tamzzy]

Also on CPU side there aren't really much of actually good options at the moment.
4790K would be drop in update and with higher clocks and hyperthreading give some room, but difference isn't significant to warrant paying bigger prices from it.
Would keep £150 already too high.

yeah, depends on how desperate OP is. 4790k is a decent stop gap. but waiting 6 months and seeing what ryzen 3000 brings to the table is the better option