Beneficial update or not?

[KClaus]

Recently I have asked a number of different questions on Toms due to the fact that this is my first time around the upgrade cycle. I feel now I have finally finalised my upgrade path and I am hoping for some feed back.

i54690k -> i7 4790k
GTX 970 -> GTX 1070
Corsair VS 650w ->EVGA SuperNOVA 550 G2 Power Supply - 80PLUS Gold

This was done on a tight budget of £545 plus a hopeful selling price of £100 for my 4690k and £110 for my GTX 970.

 

[KClaus]

EVGA SuperNOVA 550 G2 Power Supply - 80PLUS Gold £78 Aria
Palit GeForce GTX 1070 DUAL - 8GB Graphics Card £378 Aria
Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core £272 New Egg

If anyone is curious about pricing, the above shows where I will be sourcing the parts from.

 

[Stysner]

For gaming, the only upgrade is the 1070. That's considerably better for gaming.

The 4790K does nothing really for gaming (maybe a couple of frames, 5 if you're lucky). If that 4690K was OC'd and ran at a higher clockspeed than the 4790K does now, it's actually a downgrade for the majority of games (practically all of them).

The powersupply is potentially better, but you didn't need to upgrade that VS650 at all (unless it was broken / noisy, of course).

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So... Eh. For content creation or CPU rendering (3D rendering, image rendering, video rendering, what have you) that 4790K is a nice upgrade. For gaming, that 1070 is a definite upgrade. Depends on what you use your PC for.