Help upgrading my PC

[planetdune]

I want to buy a new PC, this one is two years old already. I will list my current components. I use my PC for gaming and photo editing. Anyway, my current system:

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  Motherboard: Gigabyte X79-UD3
  Processor: Intel i7-4820 Quadcore
  Memory: Kingston 12GB Tripple Channel DDR3
  Graphic Card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 780ti 3GB GDDR5
  SSD: Samsung 840 Evo 250GB
  Hard Disk: Western Digital Sata 1TB Caviar Black
  Case: Antec P183 Mid-Tower
  Card Reader: Chieftec SD/MMC MicroSD xD MS/Pro/Duo
  Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster T260 27"
  Speakers: Creative Stereo
  Keyboard & Mouse: Logitech (Azerty)
  Controller: Microsoft XbOne
  OS: Windows 10 Professional (official)

After hours of research, this is where I am at:

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  Motherboard: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA, socket 1151
  Processor: Intel i7-6700 4000mhz Quadcore
  Memory: 64GB DDR4 (4x G.Skill D432GB 2800-14 Trident Z K2 16GB)
  Graphic Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5X

If anyone knows if this is a good setup, where to improve etc... for example I wasn ot sure abut the motherboard I got at the moment because I never used watercooling.. I also want to be at least somewhat future proof for 4k gaming...

Thanks!

 

[Tradesman1]

Couple of questions - any reason for 64GB of DRAM? also if going 64GB get a 4x16GB set (single package), there's no guarantees when mixing packages of DRAM. If going upper end would go ahead and get the 6700K where the watercooling will pay off - understand the future proofing approach, else a 6600K is more than enough. Formula is a great mobo, does it have something in particular you need? If not can save some and go with it's little brother the Hero, that was my pick (in sig)

 

[Epicness937]

why not get a i7 5280k and keep the motherboard its a improvement and then get 32gb ram unless you need 64gb for some reason
and for a gpu yeah a 1080 is good but if it is not 4k a 1070 should be good enough

and looking at your system i think a workstation cpu like the haswell-e cpus would be good

 

[planetdune]

I heard a gtx1080 is not good enough for 4k?

 

[Epicness937]

I heard a gtx1080 is not good enough for 4k?

we dont really know yet as the 1080 is not out so we only get a few benchmarks