Need help, Upgrading computer to use with photoshop/digital art programs

[Boulle]

Hello! first post here, I have a ASRock H97M Pro4 Motherboard with a Gforce GTX 760 GPU and a Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30Ghz CPU, i also have 16gb of ram.

Now the question is what i should upgrade to if i want photoshop and similar programs to run smoother, I thought it would be the CPU but then someone said the GPU is more important for these programs.

Any Help would be most appreciated!

//Victor

 

[Boulle]

Thanks a lot for the info Orbitalwalsh! I'm checking what kind of processor i could get for my motherboard (using this website http://processormatch.intel.com/)
This seems to be the best:

4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4790K | Frequency: 4.00 GHz

Witch seems to be hard to buy now, i wonder what motherboard i could get so i can get a better CPU? It needs to be the same size/ cause i have a pretty small chassi.

Again any help would be most appreciated

// Victor.

 

[Boulle]

Ah but it only says 3,2 ghz on the link, what motherboard do you think i should get if im gonna upgrade to a newer processor and do motherboards generally have the same size? (thinking of my chassi size witch is a bit smaller than a standard one) I have some budget.

 

[Boulle]

Bump

 

[Boulle]

Ah but of course, My case is this one https://skinflint.co.uk/bitfenix-phenom-m-black-bfc-phm-300-kkxkk-rp-a1007223.html.

I just read that the motherboard it supports are
microATX or Mini-ITX.

whats the difference between these? Im guessing MicroATX is better, whats a good MicroATX motherboard and processor combo with a high clock speed? Pref Intel if that's what Photoshop prefers. Im trying to sus it out myself but i don't wanna buy the wrong parts. Any help would be most appreciated.

// Victor.

 

[Boulle]

bump.