Upgrade question

[crisis uk]

First of all, apologies if this is the incorrect part of the forum to post this.

Now the question at hand, I was looking at some of the upgrade options for my pc that I bought from PC Specialist a while ago, specifically, my CPU, and found that there is only the option to upgrade to a i7-3770. Is this because of my mobo? I was hoping that I would be able to upgrade to a 4 series down the line. Or is it because of my RAM or something daft like that? My specs are in my sig

 

[Rakk]

Is this because of my mobo? I was hoping that I would be able to upgrade to a 4 series down the line.

Yep, the motherboard is what is limiting your choice, it will only take Socket 1155 CPU's (ie. 2nd and 3rd generation i7/i5 CPUs I think), 4th gen CPU's use the 1150 socket - Intel like changing their sockets ...

 

[keynes]

only motherboard, if you wish to upgrade the cpu you need to upgrade your motherboard

 

[crisis uk]

Thanks for the replies chaps. Kinda sucks to be honest, guess I'll have to look into buying a H100i and overclocking my current i7-3570k.

Just out of curiosity, would I have to upgrade to some 1600Mhz or higher RAM in order to over clock my CPU?