What should be my upgrade path

[kunal08soni]

I am thinking about upgrading my system incrementally.My current system specs are as follows:

CPU: Intel core i5 4590
Motherboard: asus h97 pro gamer
RAM: 8 GB DDR3 Gskill sniper
Monitor: Samsung 1080p 60hz
PSU: Seasonic S12 II 520 watts
GPU: Zotac GTX 650 TI boost

My GPU is not able to handle any modern games, so I am thinking first to upgrade my GPU.As RTX 20 series is about to be released, I am leaning towards RTX 2070, then later down the road(probably in 6-7 months) I will upgrade to Intel 9th gen processor along with motherboard and RAM also I am not planning to upgrade my monitor anytime soon

So I would like to ask the community if this is a right approach to upgrading my system or if there is a better way which I should go about.Also if I upgrade to RTX 2070, will it be severely bottlenecked by my CPU.

I am from India and will be purchasing most of the components from amazon.in.

 

[rhoban]

Depends on how good the 2070 will be.
But there will definitely be some form of bottleneck.

I would wait for reviews before committing to the 20 series. Nvidia can say a lot of things, but real world numbers are what interest us.
If performance doesn't justify the price, you might as well go with a 10 series card.
The 2070 will be about 500-600 dollars.
There are deals for 1080TI at 600 dollars, or 1080 for less than 500 dollars.

If the 2070 is similar in performance to a 1080, then you might as well buy a 1080 for less money. Unless you really want that Ray Tracing technology.

 

[zero_l0gic]

best way to upgrade your pc would be (for that Mobo), first memory up to 16gb (some new games use about 6-7gb so 8 is to little), next ssd if you dont have one, PSU some to 550-600w (you PSU is good but leaves little headroom to upgrade), after that go for CPU and GPU, for CPU intel i7 4790k is the best you can get on that mobo, and a nice 1070ti will work wonders. better to get GPU before CPU (your CPU is solid if it was any other i3 or i5 i would say to change it first) and the new RTX 20xx are not out yet and everyone agree that we need to wait to see what they are and how they preform ( and when they launch the GTX10xx series will drop its price so... wait and get 1070ti or 1080 for less money )

 

[kunal08soni]

Depends on how good the 2070 will be.
But there will definitely be some form of bottleneck.

I would wait for reviews before committing to the 20 series. Nvidia can say a lot of things, but real world numbers are what interest us.
If performance doesn't justify the price, you might as well go with a 10 series card.
The 2070 will be about 500-600 dollars.
There are deals for 1080TI at 600 dollars, or 1080 for less than 500 dollars.

If the 2070 is similar in performance to a 1080, then you might as well buy a 1080 for less money. Unless you really want that Ray Tracing technology.

Yes, I am also waiting for the benchmarks for 20 series, if it does not perform good according to price I will go with 10 series(probably 1070 ti or 1080). What about rest of my system, will my PSU be enough for 1080.

 

[kunal08soni]

best way to upgrade your pc would be (for that Mobo), first memory up to 16gb (some new games use about 6-7gb so 8 is to little), next ssd if you dont have one, PSU some to 550-600w (you PSU is good but leaves little headroom to upgrade), after that go for CPU and GPU, for CPU intel i7 4790k is the best you can get on that mobo, and a nice 1070ti will work wonders. better to get GPU before CPU (your CPU is solid if it was any other i3 or i5 i would say to change it first) and the new RTX 20xx are not out yet and everyone agree that we need to wait to see what they are and how they preform ( and when they launch the GTX10xx series will drop its price so... wait and get 1070ti or 1080 for less money )

Actually I will upgrade my Mobo,CPU(probably 9th gen Intel) and RAM in about 6 months time, so I don't want to invest more in my current setup as DDR3 RAM prices here in India are quite high. I have a Samsung 860 EVO 500 GB SSD.

 

[guanyu210379]

AMD has not announced anything.
nVidia 2xxx series are not proven yet, how good they really are.
I would wait a couple of weeks first then decide.

Upgrading to 2070 (if it is really good, I assume it should be near gtx1080), your I5 4590 can be a bottleneck on some processor heavy AAA games but is not a bottleneck on other games.
Games are written different from each other, some are more proc dependent others are more GPU dependent. Most are GPU dependent.
For 60 fps gaming, your I5 4590 is still ok.