What would you upgrade if you were me?

[Dammie]

My specs are:

UserBenchmarks: Game 104%, Desk 94%, Work 55%
CPU: Intel Core i5-7600K - 88.4%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti - 119.4%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB - 951.2%
SSD: Samsung 860 Evo 500GB - 128.2%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB - 97.6%
HDD: Hitachi HTS725032A9A364 320GB - 54.2%
RAM: Micron CT4G4DFS8213.8FA11 2x4GB - 74.2%
MBD: MSI H110M PRO-D (MS-7996)

What would you upgrade and why?


The only problem I have is when I would upgrade my i5-7600k to the i7-8700k, I would also have to buy a new Motherboard

 

[trampus123]

that is a good system you have now add more ram 16gb is good now days as some game use all or most of a 8gb system ram

 

[Peter Martin]

Yeah what he just said a little more ram is it

 

[tejayd]

Agreed and agreed. I have upgraded stuff I dont really need to, just to blow money. But I like to at least skip a generation just so I feel better about it.

 

[geofelt]

In order to overclock your 7600K you need a z270 chipset motherboard.
You are leaving some 30% cpu performance on the table.

That said, if you want even more cpu performance wait a bit for the new gen i5-9600K processors and an overclockable chipset motherboard.

 

[Peter Martin]

That overclocked performance comes at a cost to the electronics and their lifespan

 

[sizzling]

As long as you keep voltages and temperatures under control an overclocked cpu will still become obsolete long before it dies.

 

[Peter Martin]

Yes this may be true however most people that do it probably shouldn’t be doing it and probably don’t do it correctly. The amount of time it takes to get the perfect set up takes time and diligence and I think everybody’s looking for free performance and many of them end up burning up their systems

I build a system and use it for 10 years and when it dies I junk parts and build it again. I don’t have any of the issues that 99% of the people here have