Upgrading from LGA 1155 to LGA1150/1151?

[DavidVioMC]

I'm currently possibly thinking of upgrading my platform, I was recently looking for a Z motherboard and I found out how hard it is to find a good value Z board for LGA 1155 that is not either overpriced or dosen't look ugly, I tried auctions and it seems people overpay for LGA 1155 Z boards, I guess since they're starting to become rare, the value goes up, oh well. I'm currently possibly thinking of upgrading my platform, it's my daily gaming rig, I don't play the newest titles so this setup is way enough for me even though it seems ancient, my specs are;
i5 2500
EVGA GTX 670
2x4GB HyperX DDR3 RAM
Corsair CX600 PSU
Gigabyte GA-H61-DS2 Rev 2.0 Mobo
120GB Drevo X1 SSD
Toshiba 1TB HDD
CPU & GPU are both in same water loop (4W pump, single 120mm and single 240mm rads, both rads with Corsair SP120 fans) Full load: CPU - 47c GPU - 45c

This PC gets me 60-100 FPS in games such as CSGO, GTA V, Insurgency, Euro Truck Simulator 2 on mid-high at 1080p settings which is way enough for me, all I care about is getting steady 60 fps, anything higher is a bonus. I want to find out what would be the next upgrade from LGA 1155, I see a lot of cheap Z LGA 1150/1151 boards so I'm wondering if it would be a good upgrade, I mainly want a Z board to overclock my CPU since my water loop gives me a lot of headroom when it comes to temps and I would like to use it. I will most likely go with an i5 K series cpu once again since i5 is enough for me. Please post your suggestions but please don't suggest anything crazy, my budget is not big, I can barely afford a GTX 1060, that's what I'm working with. Thanks for reading

 

[WildCard999]

If your happy with your system I would hold off on upgrading to a newer CPU platform, a GPU update could be good but with the insane pricing currently I'd recommend holding off until prices come down. The only feasible upgrade I could suggest is maybe a monitor upgrade to maybe a 1080P with a higher refresh for games such as CSGO or maybe a ultra wide (2560x1080P/75hz) if your games support 21:9.

 

[InvalidError]

After Meltdown and Spectre, I'd expect a lot of Cannon Lake and older CPUs with associated motherboards getting substantially cheaper assuming Icelake addresses both issues next year.

I'd wait for 2019 if you aren't having a major case of upgrade itch. If your motherboard supports the i7-3770(k), that would be a much better upgrade than the motherboard if you can get an inexpensive one and don't need the 70-series chipsets' updated IOs.

 

[DavidVioMC]

If your happy with your system I would hold off on upgrading to a newer CPU platform, a GPU update could be good but with the insane pricing currently I'd recommend holding off until prices come down. The only feasible upgrade I could suggest is maybe a monitor upgrade to maybe a 1080P with a higher refresh for games such as CSGO or maybe a ultra wide (2560x1080P/75hz) if your games support 21:9.

I'm currently running double Samsung SyncMaster B1940w that I had since they came out in 2010 since they were cheap widescreen monitors at that time, never bothered upgrading since they never broke so I had no reason, I also have 32 inch Samsung TV mounted on the wall on top of my monitors which I use to watch movies and sometimes game on it but due it's high latency, I only play stuff like Euro Truck Simulator 2 since the latency dosen't matter unlike CSGO which I play on a monitor, I was thinking about getting one more b1940w to play in surround since I belive GTX 670 support up to 4 surround monitors. What suggestions would you have for a 1080p monitor?

After Meltdown and Spectre, I'd expect a lot of Cannon Lake and older CPUs with associated motherboards getting substantially cheaper assuming Icelake addresses both issues next year.

I'd wait for 2019 if you aren't having a major case of upgrade itch. If your motherboard supports the i7-3770(k), that would be a much better upgrade than the motherboard if you can get an inexpensive one and don't need the 70-series chipsets' updated IOs.

This is excatly what I though, that the older CPU's and motherboards will get cheaper due to the whole Meltdown and Spectre, but it will take sometime, which nobody knows yet how long it is. I'm not too worried with the performance drop when the patch is applied since even if I get the worse 30% performance drop, it's not going to effect me since I play low-end games, I also though maybe GPU prices will drop since cryptocurrency has hit hard the past week but I guess people need to slow down buying them for retails to drop the prices, and that's not going to be any time soon. I though before about getting a Asus Sabertooth Z77 with i5 2500k but it seems the price for sabertooth z77 is going up so I ditched that plan, Maximum IV also seem to be at a decent price but I heard those motherboards have issues with RAM slots. I could wait until 2019, I'm not too desperate to upgrade, but it would be nice to get more FPS and maybe even try out VR