i5 4690k upgrade

[zigrish18]

Currently rocking an i5 4690k clocked at 4.5ghz, and having some problems with some games. Experiencing bottleneck, despite having higher resolution. AC Origins is always peaking at 100%, while my 1070 sits at 89%-98%. Having this problem when I dont cap the FPS to 30.

Current specs:

i5 4690k
GTX 1070
16GB 1666mhz DDR3
GA Z87X-OC
Corsair VS650
4TB Seagate HDD
500GB Seagate Barracuda HDD
320GB Samsung HDD

Question is if I should go ahead and just get an i7 4790k, or jump to Coffee Lake for better upgrade path?

 

[faalin]

The cheapest upgrade is to the 4790k, otherwise your looking at a new Gen8 intel or Ryzen amd setup with MB, CPU, and Ram. I would also recommend a PSU upgrade, the VS line isnt very good and with OC'ing you will really be stressing it.

 

[Spock_rhp]

your GTX 1070 is near running at max now. Couple of game upgrades [next year?] and you're going to be GPU limited.

so, yes, the i7-4790K will buy you some time .. but it may not be very much time and maybe you'll be [longer run] better off building a wholly new box around an 8th gen or Ryzen cpu with new DDR4 ram and a more powerful GPU. You could even drop in an NVMe M2 SSD to speed execution along.

This raises another question --- can you live with your current gaming as is for another six months to a year? With Intel/AMD competition hot, I expect to see 9th generation Intel cpus. We might even see consumer friendly [$s] Optane SSDs to improve on the NVMe M2s ... and that new box would likely rock everything. Besides, there's always a chance the GPU $s [cost] situation will be resolved, making it possible to build something better for less -- but next year.