What to upgrade (GTX780 - i7 860)

[matthijsdejong]

Hello everyone,
recently I've been thinking about upgrading my gear a little bit, I currently have a GTX780 which is quite new (december last year) but I'm not sure what to do, is my 780 getting bottlenecked by the i7 860 that I'm having or is it the ram (8g kingston ddr3) At the moment I have around 300 euro's to spend so my question is what should I upgrade in my pc, Note that I'm a livestreamer that wants to stream Gta V, I normally play gta at around 90-100 fps on this system on higher resolutions but when I stream it drops like an earthquake even on low settings !

Thanks in advance,
Matt.

 

[sizzling]

I dont think there is any bottleneck or if there is its small and only in the most cpu intensive games.

To be honest I think your better off holding onto you 300 euros. Buying a new CPU and motherboard wont give you any great gains and selling your gpu and buying a 980 or 980Ti seems more likely to give you a bottleneck.

Hold your cash until your ready for a complete new system.

 

[HCSn]

Hello everyone,
recently I've been thinking about upgrading my gear a little bit, I currently have a GTX780 which is quite new (december last year) but I'm not sure what to do, is my 780 getting bottlenecked by the i7 860 that I'm having or is it the ram (8g kingston ddr3) At the moment I have around 300 euro's to spend so my question is what should I upgrade in my pc, Note that I'm a livestreamer that wants to stream Gta V, I normally play gta at around 90-100 fps on this system on higher resolutions but when I stream it drops like an earthquake even on low settings !

Thanks in advance,
Matt.

You want a better processor and a little more ram to stream. Streaming/video rendering is more CPU intensive than anything. A 780 is honestly still a good card so unless you want to spring for something like a 980 Ti, just get a new motherboard and cpu, and possibly more ram. If you only have 300 euros to spend right now, you may want to save a little to get something better. An i7-4790k and 16 gigs of ram is a pretty good place to start for streaming, in my opinion.

 

[Xemko]

Your GPU bottlenecked by i7 860. Your cpu not capable for gaming/streaming demanding games.
I assume you don't overclock, in this case your best value upgrade will be Xeon e3 1231 v3 (i7 4770 without integrated graphics)+ h97 motherboard. Xeon features 4 cores/8 threads + Hyper Threading which helpful for streaming. Unfortunately it will be slightly more than your budget.

Here is pretty good combo : PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1241 V3 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($263.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PERFORMANCE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $343.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-07 18:46 EDT-0400

 

[matthijsdejong]

Hello everyone and thanks for you solutions, now you're all talking about my motherboard.. does that mean it has the wrong sockets or is it just an outdated motherboard because I haven't mentioned which one it was, it is the p55a-ud4 (socket 1156 <- I see the problem)

 

[Xemko]

In case you want upgrade the CPU, you also need a motherboard with proper socket.
Take a look : http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/processors-cpu-apu-features-upgrade,3569-10.html
1150 for haswell/haswell refresh/broadwell CPUs
2011-3 - Haswell E CPUs