What to upgrade next?

[Haydn266]

Hey guys, new here! I'm currently playing all of my PC games at 1080p but im wanting to enter the world of 1440p and above.

Before investing in a better monitor I was wondering how well my current rig would handle 1440p or 4k. I do like my games running above 60fps at all times. My specs;

I5 6600k OC 4.3ghz
ROG Strix GTX 1080
16gb 2133mhz DDR4 Ram
1tb HDD

Everything is air cooled.

I'm thinking maybe a better cpu and ssd?

Opinions?

 

[imsqam]

Really need to know your mobo make and model to validate supported CPU's.

An SSD won't make much difference to gaming FPS, I would instead be looking at your RAM, 2133MHz is pretty slow for Skylake/Kabylake, want to be in the 2666-3200MHz range for good ram scaling. But I would still buy an SSD, it makes other things work that much faster.

The i5-6600K should run the GTX 1080 okay, maybe some minor bottlenecking. When you switch to 1440p it relieve the CPU a bit as the GPU has to work harder and therefore makes less frequent calls to the CPU for pre-rendered information. Also a moderate overclock might help things along as well.

I would find 2x8GB of DDR4 in the 2666-3200 MHz range and get your monitor. If you don't get the results you are looking for then you could consider upgrading the CPU to an i7.