Upgrade path. Good plan?

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Hi, so for a year or so now I have been saving up £100 a month, and planning my upgrade path. I'm thinking of doing the following. Would appreciate thoughts.

Current PC is 4690K @ 4.5Ghz, 16GB DDR3, GTX 1060, 1080p 60hz, 21" TN monitor, 1TB SSD, Various HDD storage.
I would say I spend: 30% surfing web, 40% Gaming, 20% powerpoint and photoshop, 10% Video editing / rendering. So a fairly mixed bag. I have saved up so far £1300. and at £100 a month by Q4 I should have £1700.

My plan is as follows.

Q4 2017. "Enhance gaming" - Buy a 32" 4K IPS monitor and 1080Ti / Vega.

Q2/3 2018. "Enhance productivity" - Buy a 8700K/1700 (or similar), new mobo / DDR4.

Q4 2018. "Enhance storage" - Move from SSD to M.2 for main storage.


That's the basic plan I've come up with based on my use and what will make biggest impact. Anything you think is really bad, or would do differently? (Bear in mind my use case). As for the monitor, I'm sure many will tell me to go higher Hz than 4K. But honestly, for me Resolution is king. The type of games I play will benefit from 4K far more than more Hz. Will I have enough money for this? Assuming I keep putting away £100 a month and sell current components in MM.
 
Looks quite good.
Increasing resolution increases only GPU load so current CPU won't suffer from that.
And that CPU is still quite good anyway.

Video editing/rendering can hog CPU resources so if wanting those done faster more cores will help in that.
Photoshop again isn't that well multithreaded and not sure if even Adobe's raw converter is that well multithreaded.


But M.2 storage again has very little benefit for normal users.
All that super high I/O benchmarketing is snake oil selling irrelevant for normal users.
http://techreport.com/review/31177/patriot-hellfire-480gb-nvme-ssd-reviewed/5
Hence most sites avoid any real world tests with SSDs...
 
Not a big expert but agree with Esat.

The bit I have done is move to M2, and seen for games, general use seen NO real world difference.
 
going from you 21" TN panel to even an ultra wide 3440x1440 IPS will be like night and day, also give u a lot more options in terms of refresh rate and price

1080p = 2mil pixels vs 1440p = 5milion pixels
 
You might want to factor the upcoming high refresh-rate 4K monitors into your plans. Those will give you the best of both worlds. They're supposed to be coming later this year for about £2K, but I expect them to be much cheaper by the middle of next year once competition and economies of scale kick in as well as there being Freesync models. If I can resist long enough, I'm expecting to be buying when Volta appears.
 
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