It's about that time to upgrade

[m3dicat3d]

So I did my first home build early spring of 2013. It went great, and since that time the only thing I have upgraded was the video card to the system and the SSD, but I have the same mobo, CPU and memory that I did 3 years back. So what I have right now is:

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
MSI Z77 MPOWER ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC 4GB
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SSD
Thermaltake Overseer ATX Full Tower Case
Thermaltake 750W PSU
ASUS Optical BR RW

With the GTX 1080 on the horizon, I know I will be upgrading the video card at some point. But what I’m really wondering about is how much boost would I see if I upgraded to the new card vs replacing the mobo, CPU, and memory. I actually have the funds to do both in the coming months, but I’m still asking myself what the performance difference would be between the card alone vs upgrading the aforementioned items. And I am interested because I will have to do either the GPU first, or the other parts first.

To be clear, my goal for these upgrades is a heavily modded FO4 running at or as close to 60 FPS as possible with ultra settings, “reasonable level” (1k to 2K) texture packs as they become available and running an ENB preset. I had the same goal in mind for my first build concerning Skyrim, and the system turned out to do what I needed without being a top end system and getting me close to my goal for that game.

The components I am thinking of upgrading (apart from the GPU) are:

Core i7 6700k 4GHz or Core i5 6600k 3.5GHz
(or perhaps a 5th gen iteration, it seems I’ve read that the performance leap between the 5th and 6th gens were negligible, but don’t hold me to that either, I may have misread)
MSI Z170A XPOWER Gaming Titanium Edition
16 or 32 Gb of G.SKILL TridentZ DDR4 3200

Win 10 Pro (for a fresh install, I’ve been avoiding it for a while, but I figure I’ll have to make the leap at some point)

Again, I am really curious as to what the differences might be upgrading the GPU first, or the mobo/CPU/memory/OS first for my goals.

I'm certainly no tech guru by a long shot, so if I forgot an important detail or two, please feel free to call me on it. And I'm certainly open to suggestions and alternatives as I tend to really value the expertise I find here.

Thanks ahead of time!

 

[joex444]

Honestly, the 3570K is a great chip today if you are willing to overclock it. You already have the Z77 board that will let you and a pretty decent heatsink - I think you just need to set that multiplier up and overclock it. If you can get it over 4GHz I think you'll find that it's faster than a stock 6500K.

I would suggest picking up a 2x8GB DDR3 kit and replacing your RAM with that. Replace rather than add because you should be able to pick up something with a better clock rate and timings so if you add it and go for 24GB vs 16GB then it's 24GB of slower RAM vs 16GB of faster RAM.

 

[m3dicat3d]

Thanks for the reply, I should've posted that the current processor is indeed OC'd to 4.2 at the moment.

I did a fair amount of reading from google searches , but I should have done a bit more on this forum before asking too.

Besides the ram upgrade, it looks as though a GTX 1070 would fit my needs better at this point to avoid the bottlenecks I see referred to on similar topics.

Again, thanks for the input.