Recommendations on what parts of PC to upgrade for Gaming?

Groto

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I'm looking to upgrade my PC that I built in 2012 so that it can play the latest games at high frame rates.

My PC is the following:

Silverstone FT02 Case
Corsair AX1200 PSU
ASUS Z77 Sabertooth Motherboard
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 LP
Intel i7-3770K CPU
Thermalright SB-E HSF
EVGA GTX 690 GPU
1TB Samsung 840 EVO SSD
Asus Xonar Essence STX

I run 3 monitors. The primary gaming monitor is a Dell U3014 at 2560x1600 and I have a 1920x1200 Dell U2410 on each side. I typically play my games in full screen windowed mode so that I can have music/other apps like a web browser open on my other 2 smaller monitors.

I typically play Blizzard games that are not all that demanding, but I'd like a bit more performance in WoW and perhaps soon playing Destiny 2 on PC. I'd like to get a comfortable 60 FPS while having other apps open on other monitors.

What all do you recommend that I upgrade as my current weak spot? I haven't been OCing my CPU, I probably should for some gains there. I do plan on upgrading to some variant of the EVGA GTX 1080 TI since I am obviously quite VRAM limited with my GTX 690, but I was curious if anyone sees any other areas where I could see the biggest performance gains. I understand I'll see drastic gains by swapping the GPU. Seems like most people don' t think it's really worth it to swap out a 3770K for a 7700K yet assuming I overclock.

Thoughts? Appreciate the feedback. Thanks

EDIT: I do plan on upgrading to a 4K monitor at some point, so then I'd like 4K at 60FPS. I am just not sure how soon I will do that.
 
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Best thing would be a nice big graphics card, 1080 TI. Overclock the cpu to 4.4GHz or so. That will hold you over to at least coffeelake 6 core and z370 with some DDR4 which would reuse the 1080 TI and other parts
 
GPU upgrade. 1070 or 1080 Ti. If you plan to upgrade to a 4K monitor before the next round of updates then I recommend goign with a 1080 Ti. If that 4K monitor is still on hold for the unforeseeable future then go with the 1070 unless you have a 1080 Ti budget.
 
Thanks for the feedback. I plan on the GTX 1080 Ti. Is it worth any other upgrades at this point?
 
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