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So it's been a while 
My current rig is starting to get a little long in the tooth. And the newly announced BF 2042 might push my rig a little too much to play it in anything other than low, especially as the 1070 I got from overclockers 5 years ago now has frame drops on games when I look at water/liquid. I play on a 144Hz 1440p monitor.
Currently got:
Ryzen 1700
16GB RAM
EVGA 1070SC
I was thinking of upgrading to a RTX 3070 but I think my CPU being first gen Ryzen would bottleneck it as they were launched with slower clock speeds.
So is it worth upgrading just switching CPU for a 3700x or perhaps getting a new motherboard, faster ram and going the whole hog with a 5800x if that has major improvements over the 3700x given i'd only be using a 3070? (if I can find one)

My current rig is starting to get a little long in the tooth. And the newly announced BF 2042 might push my rig a little too much to play it in anything other than low, especially as the 1070 I got from overclockers 5 years ago now has frame drops on games when I look at water/liquid. I play on a 144Hz 1440p monitor.
Currently got:
Ryzen 1700
16GB RAM
EVGA 1070SC
I was thinking of upgrading to a RTX 3070 but I think my CPU being first gen Ryzen would bottleneck it as they were launched with slower clock speeds.
So is it worth upgrading just switching CPU for a 3700x or perhaps getting a new motherboard, faster ram and going the whole hog with a 5800x if that has major improvements over the 3700x given i'd only be using a 3070? (if I can find one)