Upgrading to i7 3970X, where's my bottleneck?

[gilamran]

hi,
I currently have:
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 TOXIC (2GB) PCI Express x16
MotherBoard: Gigabyte P55-UD4
CPU: Intel i5 750, 2.67Ghz
Memory: 4x4Gb Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 (1600Mhz)
Main HardDrive: OCZ Vertex3 240GB
Secondary HardDrive: x2 (RAID 5) WD 1TB (Green)
PSU: Corsair (Don't know the model)

I just got the new i7 3970X with the intel DX79SR motherboard.😀
I want to replace the current board and CPU with these guys.

My question is: Is there a component that I should upgrade to get an even better result from my system? Where's by bottleneck?

The computers is used for game development, gaming, heavy photoshop, and 3d rendering.

Thanks
Gil

 

[babernet_1]

Your bottleneck will be the video. But also, with all that rendering etc. I'd get 32GB RAM. Without a budget we can only guess.

Perhaps a GTX 780.

You may want to consider the new Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SSD. You can put everything on it for some really fast performance.