Best possible upgrades for PC?

[ArkHavoc]

Hi! Its close to Christmas time, so that means its time to start looking for upgrades for my PC! With the parts listed below, what would be the best part to upgrade? All that I currently do on my PC is gaming. If you recommend a part(s), please keep the total price under around $200. If you say I need to replace my GPU's, I will sell them both for at least $275, so you can add that to the total price.

CPU: Intel i3-4150
CPU Cooler: Stock
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws Z Series 8gb DDR3 2400
GPU: 2 Sapphire Radeon R9 270X OC Edition's in Crossfire
HDD: WD 7200RPM 1TB
SSD: Corsair Force LX Series 128GB
Power Supply: Rosewill Capstone 750W 80+GOLD
Optical Drive: Basic LG Optical Drive
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro Black
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate x64

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($191.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $191.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-23 10:24 EDT-0400

 

[ArkHavoc]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($191.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $191.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-23 10:24 EDT-0400

Is upgrading to that CPU going to give me enough better performance to make it worth it? Where would I see improvement, and how much?

 

[xapoc]

I would upgrade to this processor 9 Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz LGA 1150 Boxed Processor) , currently is $219. Should get near $200 on Christmas
http://www.microcenter.com/product/434177/Core_i5-4690K_35GHz_LGA_1150_Boxed_Processor

 

[festerovic]

what resolution do you game at?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

With your specs and an i5 you could upgrade to a real nice card in the future.

 

[Grimwinder]

Agree with Sr-71, of your current parts, the CPU would be your best/biggest upgrade at the price you are talking.

 

[Swordkd]

Like everyone else has said, upgrade the Cpu. Then take your current i3, eBay it and buy yourself a halfway decent cooler to oveclock. This is assuming you wait for the holiday sales and procure yourself a "k" series Cpu. Again, should be around 200 dollars if you wait for the sales.

 

[ArkHavoc]

what resolution do you game at?

1920x1080 on every game. Play upwards of at least 80 FPS on every game at medium settings on MOBA's (mobas take up most of my time), then everything maxed on skyrim.

 

[JamesSneed]

You have quite a bit of GPU power. If a game is slow at 1080p then it will be the CPU that is limiting the FPS much more than your Crossfire'ed 270X's. In fact having that much GPU power will be putting more stress on your CPU to feed them.

That dual core CPU will be holding you back quite a bit in games that are multi-threaded.

You may be able to pick up a i5-4690K for close to $200 if you watch for sales otherwise you may have to pick up something like the Core i5-4460 which inst the "K" series so don't expect much overclocking but it is under $200. However both of these will offer much better performance in any CPU heavy games. Many of the newer games that will stress your system will be multi-threaded so im with everyone here the bang for the buck is a decent quad core that fits into your current motherboards 1150 slot.