Worth upgrading my CPU?

[jolo309]

Hello, i bought a GTX 980 a couple of months ago and it runs great.
But now, will it be worth upgrading my CPU aswell? To maybe a i7 4790k?

I would need a new Motherboard if i'm going for intel, which is what i want,
so is it worth upgrading from a FX 8320 to a i7 4790k, and replace the Motherboard with a
ASUS Maximus VII Ranger?

I want i7 because i do other stuff than gaming.

GPU: NVIDIA GTX 980 MSI Twin Frozr V | 4GB GDDR5
CPU: AMD FX-8320 Vishera 8-Core | 3.5GHz
Motherboard: ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0
RAM: 16GB DDR3

Or what do you recommend i do?

 

[nikoli707]

what overclock do you have on the 8320? it really depends. are you getting 60fps in all games with minimal stutter?

i would overclock that fx 8 core as close to 5.0ghz as possible and just live with it for another year or so. you would definitely get a gaming performance boost by going with intel but it wouldn't be a good price/performance ratio boost.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

If it bottlenecks your games, then I'd upgrade to an I5-4690K.

 

[jolo309]

what overclock do you have on the 8320? it really depends. are you getting 60fps in all games with minimal stutter?

i would overclock that fx 8 core as close to 5.0ghz as possible and just live with it for another year or so. you would definitely get a gaming performance boost by going with intel but it wouldn't be a good price/performance ratio boost.

I don't have any overclock, it's just 3.5ghz. I've never overclocked before, and my cooler is a CM Hyper EVO 212.
I'm not getting 60fps all the time in GTA 5 on ultra/very high, and i'm running 1080p. I don't expect all games to run 60fps, but i heard people can run it ultra/very high with 60 fps on a GTX 980 and i7 4790k.

Same with Dying Light, it runs poorly on my AMD CPU, but that's because it is poorly optimized for AMD CPU's i guess.
I don't know, maybe i should wait till a lot of CPU intense games begins to lag 🙂

 

[nikoli707]

well your hyper 212 evo should at least get you to 4.4ghz.... i would start with that. the fx 8 core overlclocks nicely so there really isn't much reason not to overclock. its reasonably easy.