Upgrade Extreme4 Gen 3 P67 Mobo for GTX970 and i7 4790k?

Good morning, I recently ordered an Asus GTX 970 Strix and an i7 4790k CPU as well as a water cooling system for the CPU (CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i).

My current specs are as follows (red text is what is being replaced)

• CORSAIR XMS3 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
• Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz
• P67 Extreme4 Gen3 motherboard
• Corsair 850W PSU
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

My rig is not meeting the demands of the newer PC games when I want to run on high/ultra high settings with all of the tessellation settings and nicer effects turned on.


I may upgrade to a faster ram speed as well as increasing the amount of memory to 12 or 16GB.

The question I'd like to ask is "Am I limiting the new CPU and GPU a lot by not upgrading the motherboard and also how much bottlenecking will occur?". I have about $150.00 US left in my budget for a motherboard if it necessary to upgrade. I'd like to go on and place the order for the parts within the next few days but I can wait and do more research (or just ask questions as I am now, lazy research) and hopefully gain better understanding of this all.

Thanks very much, cheers