[SOLVED] Upgrade options?

[jkimrey]

Hi.

I'm looking to upgrade my computer for better gaming results.

Right now I'm trying to play Gears 5 but I'm having to turn down the graphics settings to get good FPS running at 2560x1440.

I'm thinking my GPU is the bottleneck right now, but I'm not sure if it can be upgraded with my current motherboard?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.00GHz 29 °C
Skylake 14nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1066MHz (15-15-15-36)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z170X-Gaming 7 (U3E1) 26 °C
Graphics
LG QHD (2560x1440@144Hz)
MR (2560x1440@144Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (EVGA) 31 °C
Storage
465GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (SATA (SSD)) 27 °C
1863GB Western Digital WDC WD20EZRZ-00Z5HB0 (SATA ) 25 °C
465GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (SATA (SSD)) 23 °C
58GB PNY USB 2.0 FD USB Device (USB )
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
Sound Blaster Recon3Di

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

Your motherboard is fine. PCIe is forward and backward compatible (on the last few iterations of it anyways.)

You should worry more about your power supply when upgrading your GPU. What power supply do you have?

What's your budget? It gets expensive trying to outperform a GTX 1080. I'd say at least a 2070 Super, but probably more like a 2080 Super or 2080 Ti.