Please help me upgrade my gaming pc

[Boedicia]

Hi,

These are my specs currently...
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Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.00GHz 35 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 1200MHz (11-13-14-32)
Motherboard
MSI Z87-G55 (MS-7821) (SOCKET 0) 36 °C
Graphics
Acer RT280K (3840x2160@60Hz)
G276HL (1920x1080@60Hz)
MX279 (1920x1080@60Hz)
3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (ASUStek Computer Inc) 54 °C
Storage
465GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (SATA (SSD)) 26 °C
111GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB (SATA (SSD)) 37 °C
931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER162 (SATA ) 32 °C
167GB INTEL SSDSC2CT180A3 (SATA (SSD))
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224DB
Audio
NVIDIA High Definition Audio
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Firstly, I am wanting to replace the CPU with an Intel i9, a motherboard to match it and at least 16gb ram but what i am stuck on is what motherboard to get. It must have an M.2 ssd slot as i want to upgrade my ssd too.

Secondly, what are your thoughts on M.2? Is there generally any difference between them and an ssd? I know the read/write speed is faster but will it impact my gaming massively?

Thirdly, what type of psu is recommended? I currently have a 1000w psu (Corsair). I know a big chunk of money will be in purchasing an intel i9 and ideally wouldn't want to spend over £1000 upgrading this PC.

The games i play are mmorpg's and i would want to run them on the highest settings. I do currently but as more games come to fruition, my PC wouldn't run as well as it once did having ddr3 ram and an old msi motherboard with intel i7 4th gen. Please give me your thoughts.

Thank you.

 

[ilc72]

For most applications you will not see a noticeable benefit from NVME to SATA, usually video editing as a scratch disk, if you’re going with i9-9XXX then Gigabyte’s Z390 boards seem to be the best in terms of power delivery though BIOS is still not up there with Asus. If you have a 1000W PSU then there’s no need to upgrade it, if it works it’ll most likely be fine, especially if it’s a Corsair unit.

One thing from your specs is confusing, the GTX1080ti has 11GB of VRAM yet you mention a 3GB model? Do you have a 780ti as that would fit from the specs of the rest of your system?

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Would grab 2080ti for 4k monitor and record verclock CPU to 4.5ghz !

See how you get on . MMO don't tend to hit cores to much, unless your using multiple accounts ?