Upgrading System Build

[davidleedavison]

My Current System is about 6 years old and I am looking to rebuild it possibly and wondering if some of my current parts would still be viable options to use as I am somewhat on a budget and with GPU prices have to be picky. My current system is:

Intel I5-3570k CPU @3.40GHz
Corsair H100i Cooling
Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 LGA1155
Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 GC White Edition 2 GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Hybrid RS-D00-SPHA-D3 1300W ATX 12V V2.3 80 plus gold
CM Storm Stryker - White Full Tower Gaming Computer Case

Was hoping I could maybe just tweak the Ram and GPU but not sure how well my motherboard would bottleneck the newer GPU's or anything. Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks..

 

[tannji]

Well, I am not saying you wouldn't notice a CPU upgrade, but you have 4 threads at 3.4ghz, for most games that is either fine, or at least playable. The obvious upgrade is your graphics card, and you didn't include your RAM, but if you have 8GB or more you are fine.
The card with only 2GB VRAM is more of an issue, and would make a large difference in many games if you went with something like a 1080 or 1070.

 

[Avet]

You can just overclock your CPU, your cooling is good. Go to 16GB RAM if you do not have already. Identical sticks, do not mix them. And for GPU if you can't find 1070 for a good price, concider used 980 or 980Ti. It will give you very good bump in performance.

And please forget about the word bottleneck. It exists in extreme situations with extreme parts. If you try to pair 1080 Ti with ultra low end CPU bottlenecking isn't your main problem.

 

[davidleedavison]

Thanks for the feedback just got a GTX 1060 with 6gbs and upgraded to 16 gb ram. Hopefully when the new Nvidia series cards come out maybe there will be some price decreases on cards we shall see I guess.