How future proof will I be with this upgrade? and rate my rig now and after.

[Azurumi Shinji]

EDIT 2.
Well I got a new issue, my pc had been crashing when ever I ran any full anti virus scan...I tried many solutions and checked my drives for errors but they got a clean bill of health. So then I tried a soft reset and it couldn't do it and then I tried a full reset and it ran into a error in the middle of it so now windows is gone and I guess I would have to buy a new copy of Windows to get my pc running...but if I did that I probadly would still have have a glitchy pc and at this point I just want to sell all the parts and keep the case.
Fair idea of mine? I was wondering how much do you think I could sell my parts for. I check prices online but they look to high to be true. I'm hoping for a grand from my first pc and then sell my secondary pc for 500.
My 2nd pc has
Intel Pentium G3220 Haswell Dual-Core 3.0
G.skill rip jaw (blue). 2x 4gb ram
Seagate 1TB HDD
Zotac gtx 750 ti
LG 24x DVD player.
Evga 500w bronze 80+
GIGABYTE GA-Z97-HD3 motherboard
Rosewill Galaxy-03 - Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case.
Hoping to make 500 about off of it.

EDIT1: of future parts I plan to buy for a full upgrade at the bottom

Sorry for the 9999th thread about upgrading to a GTX1080. >3<"
Here are my specs and with this setup, how much better well my gaming be at that resolution and fps and for how many years will I be future proof running at that resolution and fps? I one day would love to get a 1440P monitor with 144hz or even 4k60hz+ on the side. I like over kill and future proofing. I was thinking of waiting for cyber Monday or black Friday for a sale on the gtx 1080, any chance of that happening?

LASTLY, what would you call my rig as of now, mid range gaming pc or what? and what would it be after having the gtx 1080? maybe 1/100's?

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 680 4GB. I like to think that extra 2GB really helps.
i7-3770K Ivy Bridge Quad-Core 3.5GHz
CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB)
MB, Intel BOXDZ77BH55K LGA 1155 Intel Z77
Power supply just incase...SeaSonic X-1050W 80plus gold
SSD Intel 730 Series 2.5" 480GB (with a 2TB HDD on the side)
NZXT Kraken X40 water cooler
Cooler Master HAF X - High Air Flow Full Tower

My rig has been struggling to play games fully maxed out at 144fps fullHD this year and I am hoping to get at least 3+ years of easily running full HD at 144fps with the gtx1080 on all games. Think the 1080 can do all this for me and my rig and is there any other upgrades for my rig that I should consider.

Here are the 4 upgrades I plan to get so far. How good will my rig be after this? 1/100? and ofc how good is my current rig.
GTX 1080
Intel Core i7-6700K 8M Skylake Quad-Core 4.0 GHz
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) (I don't know much about ram so feel free to offer others for gaming if there a lot better)
ASUS Z170-DELUXE

 

[manddy123]

Just upgrading the GTX 680 to a 1080 would be a HUGE boost.

If you wanna keep improving, get yourself a i5-6500 or even 6600k with some DDR4 RAM and a newer mobo. With those changes you will very easily run everything maxed up with 144fps without problems on 1080p and near that on 1440p.

IMO your build right now is 50/100, with a 1080 i'd say a 75/100 and with the other changes, a 85/100
Everything else is great quality, SSD, PSU,Cooler... Nice choices friend! Keep those!

 

[Eximo]

i7-3770k + GTX680 would be around mid-range today in a direct comparison to a contemporary Skylake/Pascal build. A GTX680 is comparable to about a GTX960, and a GTX1060 is half a GTX1080.

After your upgrade I would call that a high end gaming machine.

Unless it is just me, I don't see a single 1080 maxing out 1440p at 144hz in anything I play really. If you tweak the settings a little, perhaps. Plenty of games hovering around 90-100FPS.

 

[Azurumi Shinji]

Just upgrading the GTX 680 to a 1080 would be a HUGE boost.

If you wanna keep improving, get yourself a i5-6500 or even 6600k with some DDR4 RAM and a newer mobo. With those changes you will very easily run everything maxed up with 144fps without problems even on 1440p.

IMO your build right now is 50/100, with a 1080 i'd say a 75/100 and with the other changes, a 85/100
Everything else is great quality, SSD, PSU,Cooler... Nice choices friend! Keep those!

Good answer, thank you very much and I cant wait for more input. Any one is free to answer any of these questions.
So you recommend upgrading my CPU because its skylake? In that case I would choose the Intel Core i7-6700K 8M Skylake Quad-Core 4.0 GHz. How big of a jump would that be from my current CPU? As for the ram I think I would choose the G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 16GB because its new, looks good for a intel build and I think its great for gaming. If you can find a better one for a gaming pure intel build, plz tell! and ofc how much difference would this ram upgrade be, I expect little to none to be honest...maybe a more stable pc tho.
Lastly the motherboard, if I got the gtx 1080, i7 skylake cpu and the new ddr4 ram can my current motherboard technically run all of those or is to outdated? Motherboards still confuse me, there the most complex part imo.
But if I get a new motherboard, I would get this one! ASUS Z170-DELUXE!
Those 4 upgrades give me a 90/100 score or what? (gtx 1080,ram , mb and cpu upgrades)

 

[Azurumi Shinji]

i7-3770k + GTX680 would be around mid-range today in a direct comparison to a contemporary Skylake/Pascal build. A GTX680 is comparable to about a GTX960, and a GTX1060 is half a GTX1080.

After your upgrade I would call that a high end gaming machine.

Unless it is just me, I don't see a single 1080 maxing out 1440p at 144hz in anything I play really. If you tweak the settings a little, perhaps. Plenty of games hovering around 90-100FPS.

Well when I first got this PC I think I was running games better than most estimates(like I ran bf4 full HD 144fps on medium/high settings) because the combination of parts are all high quality even for there power and I make sure to get as much intel parts as possible...just a theory of mine but I seem to get a bonus for syncing all the parts under one brand, especially since its the reliable and premium intel.
Or maybe I am just a crazy intel fan boy lol.
But I am really hoping it could max it out on 1440P 144 if I complete my 4 part upgrade!~ The motherboard I want promises amazing gaming performance by reducing the work load on the other parts thanks to its new features and optimizing its internet connections. If that is true...my new build just might pull it off....even if I have to tweak some very minor settings. I don't even think I need as much anti aliasing since its 1440P.
Or maybe I am a overly hopeful tech noob =p

 

[Eximo]

An i7-6700k might have about a 20% speed increase over an i7-3770k, not really worth it unless you really want to upgrade. Depending on what you compare it to DDR4 is quite fast, not quite as good as the highest end DDR3, but certainly you can get the bandwidth. This has little impact in games though. As long as you have 8GB or more of reasonably fast memory your are good.

Changing your CPU is not necessary, but if you did you would need all the parts you mentioned. The old LGA1155 socket won't support 4th/5th or 6th/7th gen chips or DDR4.

If you really want to upgrade. Wait for the 200 series boards and 7th gen chips. Looks like a few hundred MHZ out of the box increase.

A Skylake i7 + 1080 would probably be a 90/100 indeed. Only way to do better would be Multiple GPU, the fastest possible storage, and possibly jumping up to the Broadwell-E chips on the X99 platform (though that would be a very minor improvement)

 

[manddy123]

Okay, let's go,

For all reasons, check this site for Benchmarking and real-tested results with the pieces you want to get.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/


CPU
Yes, newer technology almost always means better quality and support. With this new CPU you'll be getting a nice boost, about 25%. And you're getting a ' K ' version off that CPU, the 6700k, which means it's unlocked for Overclocking, you might tweak that to improve even further your performance, but it means that you will have to get yourself a good overclocker MOBO, which i'll talk more later.


RAM
About the RAM, buy 2x8GB DDR4 RAM, like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231888&cm_re=8GB_DDR4-_-20-231-888-_-Product

That way, they'll work in Dual Channel, offering more stable performance and faster readings. ( It's always a good practice to buy RAMs in a Pair or Kit, that whey they are tested to work together efficiently in dual channel. ) DDR4 is new RAM on the market, so expect it to still be really optimized, but it's a much safer bet than old DDR3.


MOBO
And about mobos, there are, just like everything else, lots and lots off brands and specs. There is no silver bullet mobo, you have to check one the fits your needs, which you already estabilished with being a good overclocker. The Z170 chipset is one of the best out there, which means it can overclock your 6700k without problem.


Overall
Getting all of that, 6700k, 16GB DDR4, GTX 1080 i can easily say that you'll get a 90/100 in my personal score. Getting above that would be too damn pricey and not reaaaally worth it, like newer i7 and SLI GTX 1080, it would be overkill for about anything, maybe in a future when 4k is really a thing you can do that!. With this current build you will be able to max-out every single game out there and probably much more games that are yet to come.

 

[g-unit1111]

CPU
Yes, newer technology almost always means better quality and support. With this new CPU you'll be getting a nice boost, about 25%. And you're getting a ' K ' version off that CPU, the 6700k, which means it's unlocked for Overclocking, you might tweak that to improve even further your performance, but it means that you will have to get yourself a good overclocker MOBO, which i'll talk more later.

But it doesn't necessarily mean "future proof". In short there really isn't such a thing. There really is no reason to upgrade to Skylake from Ivy Bridge - you won't see much of an increase in performance at all. I would only go through with that upgrade if you want to run DDR4 and M2 SSDs. But with each generation there's only a +-10% increase in performance over the previous generation. Haswell was a 10% increase over Ivy Bridge, which was only a 10% increase over Sandy Bridge, which in turn Skylake is a 10% increase over Haswell. Honestly what I would do is upgrade to a GTX 1080 and then spend the remaining difference on a monitor upgrade.

 

[Azurumi Shinji]

Well I got a new issue, my pc had been crashing when ever I ran any full anti virus scan...I tried many solutions and checked my drives for errors but they got a clean bill of health. So then I tried a soft reset and it couldn't do it and then I tried a full reset and it ran into a error in the middle of it so now windows is gone and I guess I would have to buy a new copy of Windows to get my pc running...but if I did that I probadly would still have have a glitchy pc and at this point I just want to sell all the parts and keep the case.
Fair idea of mine? I was wondering how much do you think I could sell my parts for. I check prices online but they look to high to be true. I'm hoping for a grand and then sell my secondary pc for 500.
My 2nd pc has
Intel Pentium G3220 Haswell Dual-Core 3.0
G.skill rip jaw (blue). 2x 4gb ram
Seagate 1TB HDD
Zotac gtx 750 ti
LG 24x DVD player.
Evga 500w bronze 80+
GIGABYTE GA-Z97-HD3 motherboard
Rosewill Galaxy-03 - Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case.
Hoping to make 500 about off of it.

 

[g-unit1111]

My 2nd pc has
Intel Pentium G3220 Haswell Dual-Core 3.0
G.skill rip jaw (blue). 2x 4gb ram
Seagate 1TB HDD
Zotac gtx 750 ti
LG 24x DVD player.
Evga 500w bronze 80+
GIGABYTE GA-Z97-HD3 motherboard
Rosewill Galaxy-03 - Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case.
Hoping to make 500 about off of it.

No there's no way you will make $500 off of that. You're better off stripping the parts and selling them individually, you will make more money that way, but expecting $500 is setting your sights too high. I've sold parts off eBay and made back nowhere near what I spent on them originally.

 

[Azurumi Shinji]

@g-unit1111
Damn, I paid 700 for that rig, sound ok? And how about my main pc with the gtx 680? Any idea how much that will get me? I will consider selling the parts individually and do you think black friday/cyber Monday will offer discounts on high end gamer parts?

Also I can't find the reply button...I'm on my smart phone , any tips on how to reply would be appreciated.

 

[g-unit1111]

@g-unit1111
Damn, I paid 700 for that rig, sound ok? And how about my main pc with the gtx 680? Any idea how much that will get me? I will consider selling the parts individually and do you think black friday/cyber Monday will offer discounts on high end gamer parts?

Also I can't find the reply button...I'm on my smart phone , any tips on how to reply would be appreciated.

No it doesn't. The first rule of accounting is that everything depreciates in value. Some things depreciate faster than others. But the second you take something out of the box it drops in value.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday will not get you the discounts you think you're going to get because the always in demand items like CPUs, GPUs, motherboards and PSUs are never discounted. What's discounted instead is high volume, low yield junk the stores can't move the rest of the year.