Soldato
So your GPU is currently bottle-necking your performance, not your CPU.
A wise man would spend the money on a very fast graphics card, and then buy the CPU/Board/RAM combo next year after the next Nvidia release cycle is completed, that will net you a far great number of FPS. Should you then want to upgrade the graphics card, you will have lost very little in monetary terms, selling it on and then also benefit from the newest Intel/AMD technology, and in Intel's case, a socket/chipset that might last longer than 14 seconds.
Obviously, there's no need to take any notice of what I am saying, but £350 + £130, then another £130, only to see 3-5% gains would just seem like a waste to me (personally), not forgetting that your 980Ti still holds good value presently, fetching circa £300 on auction sites, where as by next year it'll become the equivalent of the GTX 1160 (or whatever) and be worth £120 at best.
Either way, I am sure you'll have fun with your upgrade.
A good idea but the 980ti is being bottlenecked in BF1, which is the main game I play. It runs at between 60% - 90 usage with some horrendous frame drops if the computer tries to do anything in the background. A more powerful GPU would give little benefit.
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