Need Upgrade Suggestions

[miketothej]

I'm looking to upgrade my cpu and will most likely have to upgrade the motherboard and RAM in the process and was hoping for some suggestions. I put my specs below, I'm just not very up to date on the newer motherboards and RAM options. I built my pc in early 2014 and pretty much all the specs are the same except for the GTX 1070 that I put in a few years ago. Some games like Battlefield are around 50 fps at times for me, I stream and play via the same pc so I'm aware that's gonna be part of the reason the frames are low. But I think I've been due to update the cpu for a little while now to keep up with the 1070. I haven't really set a budget for myself but I have been looking at the i7-8770, or atleast around that price range. If you guys have any suggestions for what a good upgrade setup would be I would love to hear them. Thank you in advance for the help!

Corsair Vengeance C70 ATX Mid Tower Case
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad Core Processor
Corsair H100i CPU Cooler
Asus Sabertooth Z87 Motherboard
32 GB Corsair Vengeance Memory
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD
Seagate Barracuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive
Geforce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card
Corsair 760W ATX Power Supply

 

[Karadjgne]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor ($350.98 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z370 AORUS GAMING WIFI (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($143.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot - Viper LED 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($139.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $634.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-12 23:09 EDT-0400

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor ($219.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B450 AORUS PRO WIFI (rev. 1.0) ATX AM4 Motherboard ($117.09 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($155.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $493.06
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-12 23:12 EDT-0400

Gaming + streaming means cores, and the 12 threads available to either build will be plenty to do both and not unduly suffer. The rest of your build I'd keep, just get a mount for the aio if going AM4. Unless of course you are after a new look too.

 

[miketothej]

This is super helpful thank you! I'm leaning more towards sticking with an Intel cpu. I'm wondering if I should go with 32 GB of RAM again once I do upgrade as well, or if 16 GB is plenty to work with.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor ($350.98 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z370 AORUS GAMING WIFI (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($143.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot - Viper LED 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($139.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $634.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-12 23:09 EDT-0400

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor ($219.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B450 AORUS PRO WIFI (rev. 1.0) ATX AM4 Motherboard ($117.09 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($155.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $493.06
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-12 23:12 EDT-0400

Gaming + streaming means cores, and the 12 threads available to either build will be plenty to do both and not unduly suffer. The rest of your build I'd keep, just get a mount for the aio if going AM4. Unless of course you are after a new look too.

 

[Karadjgne]

I've not heard of streaming using huge amounts of ram, and gaming really doesn't hit 12Gb very often gaming, mostly even staying under 8Gb, depending on the game, so 16Gb is pretty much the recommended amount, covers most bases. Now if you ran virtual machines, or did huge amounts of rendering/compiling etc, then I could see justifying 32Gb, but for mainly gaming + streaming, 16Gb would be about it.

I mean having 32Gb won't hurt at all, but if it's never used, you just threw away $150. If in doubt, run whatever software you do use now with any regularity, and check the total system ram usage. If nothing you have now gets even close to 16Gb, you'll have your answer.

 

[seagate_surfer]

miketothej, thanks for going with Seagate. Please feel free to ask if you run into any questions on the hard drive. Also, here is the data sheet and manual of that drive in case you need it.