Upgrading old pc

Hey guys. So I need to upgrade an old office PC (it's taking about a minute to startup Excel, real struggle). Here are the specs ASRock G31M-S Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5300 2.6 GHz DDR2 4 GB RAM 1 TB HDD Windows 10 My question is: is upgrading to an SSD enough to make it perform faster for...

So my current graphics card (msi geforce gtx 470) broke after a long time of use, and I'm looking to get a new graphics card, but one thing hits me. My motherboard (ASUS Maximus II Formula) has ports for only PCI Express x16, while the msi geforce gtx 970 (the one with the two large fans...