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Lungzie94

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How much FPS will I gain going from an i5 4460 to an i7 6700k?

this is my current build

i5 4460
H81M+ Mobo
8GB DDR3 Ram
1TB HDD
GTX 1070 8GB
Corsair VS 450 PSU

TO

i7 6700k
Z170 Pro
16GB DDR4 3000mhz RAM
1TB HDD
GTX 1070 8GB
EVGA 750 Gold G2 PSU
Samsung EVO 750 250GB SSD

How much FPS would I expect to gain?
 
Solution
Even if money is not an issue, the 4790K + 1080 is a more capable gaming machine than the 6700K + 1070. A new motherboard has some nice goodies, but nothing that will in any way affect performance, unless you hope to extract 10-15% more out of the CPU with overclocking, which honestly is very little.
M.2 is the new connector for SSDs. Rather than using the SATA interface that was designed and optimized for spinning disks, M.2 allows the flash memory + controller (SSD) to be inserted directly into the motherboard, getting rid of cables and increasing transfer speeds. Realistically you probably won't be able to tell a difference between a really fast M.2 SSD and an older SATA one, but in a new from-scratch build I would pick an M.2 SSD over a SATA one, all else being equal.

NVMe refers to the ability to boot from that drive. Early PCI Express SSDs, while faster than SATA ones, were not bootable.