Current specs:
I7-3930K, Asus x79 Sabertooth, 16gb DDR3 crucial, GTX970, 256gb OCZ Vertex 450 etc.
The set up is solid for my needs, donated to me by a friend after I lost mine with very similar specs, I can run every game I throw at it at very high settings if not everything maxed out on some and I never have any slow down, ever.
The problem is as new GPU's come out later in the year I've become aware of potential bottleneck issues with having such an old set up, my mobo is revision 1 and I'm aware with the newer gen 3 cards I'm going to have to do a specific reg edit hack to get them working at full capacity if I decide to get one.
My question is what's my best upgrade path? To get another good few years out of my system. I don't see any point in moving to a new chipset just yet as performance hasn't moved forward drastically in the past 4 years.
Everything is being run at stock currently as I'm not confident about overclocking but if I can learn a bit more I'll get to that if I need too.
So what should I do?
I7-3930K, Asus x79 Sabertooth, 16gb DDR3 crucial, GTX970, 256gb OCZ Vertex 450 etc.
The set up is solid for my needs, donated to me by a friend after I lost mine with very similar specs, I can run every game I throw at it at very high settings if not everything maxed out on some and I never have any slow down, ever.
The problem is as new GPU's come out later in the year I've become aware of potential bottleneck issues with having such an old set up, my mobo is revision 1 and I'm aware with the newer gen 3 cards I'm going to have to do a specific reg edit hack to get them working at full capacity if I decide to get one.
My question is what's my best upgrade path? To get another good few years out of my system. I don't see any point in moving to a new chipset just yet as performance hasn't moved forward drastically in the past 4 years.
Everything is being run at stock currently as I'm not confident about overclocking but if I can learn a bit more I'll get to that if I need too.
So what should I do?
