Looking to upgrade

[jr_uk]

Hi folks,

New to the site so bare with me, now i am currently looking to upgrade my pc so i dont have to worry about it for a couple of years so i can save some money, im not trying to make my rig amazing or anything just enough to play games on high/ultra settings and possibly some streaming with friends etc.

My current rig is as follows

Power supply - Corsair HX850 modular
Motherboard - Z77 Fatal1ty performance
CPU - I5 3750k
Ram - Corsair Vegeance LP 16gb (XMS1.2 profile) 4x4gb sticks
Hard Drives - 2 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB
Graphics card - Sapphire 7870 2gb in Crossfire (2 cards - realise this is bottlenecking because of the motherboard which is one of the reasons why im changing but i got the second card for free)
And im running windows 8.1

Im looking to upgrade to a few of the components to make it a little more future proof and help with the streaming - these are listed below

Motherboard - MSI Z87-G45 (i believe this would help with my dual cards as its 8x/8x)
CPU - Intel i7 4770k

I am looking to get an SSD drive and better ram at some point as well, but i just wondered if anyone had an pointers to improve my system further, im not working to a specific budget, but must be affordable.

Thanks in advance

 

[Vic 40]

I don't know why you should upgrade but if it's for streaming and the need for a quad with hyperthreading i just would go for a 3770K.
That would be for the next,

Hi folks,
Im looking to upgrade to a few of the components to make it a little more future proof and help with the streaming -

Have you tried overclocking of that 3570k first? Does that help?

The next video makes quite a statement about streaming and which cpu too,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu8Sekdb-IE
just showing a different vision about something which is more affordable.

For this,

i believe this would help with my dual cards as its 8x/8x

read the next one and decide after that if you think it's really necessary to upgrade your motherboard,
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pci-express-scaling-p67-chipset-gaming-performance,2887.html

for this,

I am looking to get an SSD drive and better ram at some point as well,

i would look for a samsung 840 evo or a kingston hyperx 3k.Intel normally has also good ssd's.
A nice,at least here most of the times,cheaper option,is the kingston ssdnow V300 .

The rest of your system further looks pretty good to me.

If you still really want to upgrade the intel set-up to another intel the components you chose are very good ones.