becareful that once any game needs more than 3.5 GB of Vram it will slow down and there is no way to disable the slow .5 GB Vram on GTX 970 ...
yes it will be good if the game needs are under 3.5GB but once you use all that out it will go down miserably slow. and reviews were written before the...
your motherboad has killer lan . Killer lan has software to limit bandwidths for apps to allow games to play better.
goto the killer lan software and see if there is any bandwidth restrictions applied there .
GTX 1080 ti is alot faster than RTX 2070 ...
and dont worry much about using all the Vram wont harm anything. however , your GTX 970 has only 3.5 GDDR5 and 0.5 slower ones , so if you use more than 3.5GB on GTX 970 the card will slow down.
Try one of these ,
https://www.arctic.ac/worldwide_en/products/cooling/vga.html
as for MSI cooler , well if you have the right modding tools and have experience , you can make it fit , and remember zip ties , they are wonderful in modding.
no , Gtx 970 had only 3.5 GDDR5 memory and not 4GB for real. and it will slow down once the game asks for more than 3.5GB
Look for used GTX 1060 6GB of GDDR5 ram OR AMD 580 with 4GB or 8GB , and dont buy any card with lower than 4GB of GDDR5 ram.
you have the 1060 with only 3GB of GDDR5 , which is very low for modern games. also the 3GB version is slower than 6GB version of 1060.
yes is The answer to your question . it is recommended to upgrade to GTX 1070 . you will gain speed and more RAM.
if it was the 6GB Version then no . but...
There should be budget choice for each category of monitors . not only one budget choice.
That is :
1- Best 4k Monitor , Best Budget 4k Monitor
2- Best Ultra wide monitor , and best Budget ultra wide monitors..
3- best Gsync/Free sync , and best budget ones.
and so on ...