$2500 to spend on upgrading current 980ti rig.... what to chose what to chose....

[moza]

Hi! Would love some help! I've recently put aside $2500 to spend on upgrading my current rig.

Basically, I have a 2012 computer which I added a GTX980ti onto. It's actually running great, although there are some bottlenecks here and there.

So any advice on what is more important (SLI 980ti vs new CPU etc) are welcome! My main questions are along the lines of:

For $25000 do I get a second 980ti and SLI with my current rig, add a great gsync monitor, and new PSU (to run SLI)..... OR Instead of focusing on 2 x GPUs, should I spend the money on upgrading my motherboard to get a new CPU and RAM etc?



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My current build:

MOBO: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R X58+ICH10R QPI 6.4GT/s DDR3 2000 PCI-Ex16 SATAII
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 Processor LGA1366 2.66GHz 8MB Cache CPU
Ram: Corsair 6GB (3x 2GB) TR3X6G1600C8D PC-12800 (1600MHz) DDR3 Triple Kit
Monitor: Asus VS248H 24" 2ms wide LED w/DSUB DVI-D HDMI
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card


Some options of what I could get with the extra $2500:

IDEA 1:
Intel Core i7 5820K Haswell-E 6-Core LGA 2011-3 3.3GHz CPU Processor
Gigabyte GA-X99-GAMING-5 X99 LGA2011-3 8
Corsair 32GB (2x16GB) CMK32GX4M2A2400C14R DDR4 2400MHz Vengeance LPX DIMM Red

OR IDEA 2:
Corsair AX-1200i 1200W 80+ Platinum Certified ATX PSU
Gigabyte N98TWF3OC-6GD GeForce GTX980TI 6G WinForce 2xDVI-I 3xDP HDMI PCI-E3.0
Asus ROG SWIFT PG278Q 27"(16:9) 2560x1440 1ms(GTG) Display Port USB3.0


SO... am I way off? Or is a MOBO/RAM/CPU upgrade better than an extra GPU and screen? etc? Or should I find a middle-ground somewhere? ANY advice would be appreciated!

Thanks all!
-Moza

 

[moza]

Also, Direct X 12 will be coming out soon... so maybe the GPU-heavy builds are better, as Microsoft are promising that this new software will minimise CPU bottlenecking?

 

[KingDingDong]

Where are you buying your parts from? Whole Foods? You should be able to do all of that for $2500.

 

[moza]

Sorry.. should have specified... Australian Dollars!

We have to pay all kinds of premiums, extra goods taxes etc. It gets a bit expensive down under!

 

[bsod1]

Question is, what do you want to do with your rig? What do you use it for?

 

[moza]

Question is, what do you want to do with your rig? What do you use it for?

Gaming. Not all the games I play are well-optimised (Ark Survival Evolved, lots of early access games etc) so even though I have a relatively nice rig, I'm struggling to get good FPS on many games... so just thought throwing some grunt at it might help...

Ended up buying a PG279Q 165Hz IPA monitor! It's great. Now have $1500 left....