Toying with an upgrade

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I'm looking to upgrade but i'm not entire sure what to upgrade, so any advice would be helpful. i'd say max budget is around £700 and it'll be used for gaming at 1080P for now but i'd like to upgrade to 1440p/144hz later, Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator and After Effects.

Current specs:

i7 920 @ 3.8ghz
Asus P6T
12GB DDR3 ram at 1600mhz
Asus 6950

So I have two ideas,

upgrade my 6950 to something a little more powerful. But i'm not sure if my cpu would be a bottleneck or not?

or

Upgrade to X99, keep my 6950 until I save up for something better. i know AMD and Nvidia are planning on releasing Pascal/Polaris stuff later this year. All i'll need for X99 is a CPU/Motherboard/Ram/Cooler, OCUK do a bundle that seems pretty solid Linky

Or I guess I could just keep saving until I can get everything all at once?

Also, stupid question, what's the difference between a Z170 board and a LGA 2011-V3 board?
 
Ah! My bad, been out the loop for a while and only got back into looking at things recently.

Will I notice much of a difference between going for 2400mhz and not something faster?

I have a Corsair TX850, which is more than enough but i'm tempted to replace it because it makes cable management a pain since it isn't modular. As for the case I have a Phanteks Enthoo Evolv.
 
Right now a new psu isn't a super important upgrade but i'll look at those.

In terms of motherboards anyone know what's popular? i'll be doing light overclocking, most probably be sticking to a single gpu.

Would upgrading to X99 be a better option that a gpu upgrade?
 
Appreciate the help, pretty sure i'm gonna go for the X99 upgrade and see what Nvidia and AMD do later this year.

Right now editing and work comes first.
 
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