Question GTX 970 Graphics Card Upgrade?

[pwrmx24]

OK I know, I know.....but request advice and ask your patience......is a graphics card upgrade going to help me? I only do Arma 3, DCS World, and X-plane? If so what is a good option? or should I wait to save for a new complete build? - Thanks.
Asus Z87 PRO LGA 1150 Motherboard
G.SKILL Sniper Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Model F3-2133C10D-16GSR
GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI G-SYNC STRIX-GTX970-DC2OC-4GD5
Intel Core i5-4670K Quad-Core Desktop Processor 3.4 GHZ 6 MB Cache - BX80646I54670K

 

[Gam3r01]

Your system is relatively balanced at time time being, so you are likely looking at a new CPU (and associated motherboard+RAM) in addition to a new GPU.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Unfortunately you will want to save up for a new pc. You have a couple of years but your current pc won’t support windows 11, So you will want to upgrade the cpu and board etc before windows 10 exits support.

Fortunately you’ve got good options. For example even an i3 12100 would run circles around your current cpu.

 

[artk2219]

OK I know, I know.....but request advice and ask your patience......is a graphics card upgrade going to help me? I only do Arma 3, DCS World, and X-plane? If so what is a good option? or should I wait to save for a new complete build? - Thanks.
Asus Z87 PRO LGA 1150 Motherboard
G.SKILL Sniper Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Model F3-2133C10D-16GSR
GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI G-SYNC STRIX-GTX970-DC2OC-4GD5
Intel Core i5-4670K Quad-Core Desktop Processor 3.4 GHZ 6 MB Cache - BX80646I54670K

You could do a moderate upgrade and get a couple of years out of that platform, it's definitely on the way out though and you'll need a new motherboard, CPU, and ram eventually. For the time being I would upgrade your CPU to either a 4770 or 4790 if you can find one affordably, otherwise I'd got for a xeon, they had several available for that socket and your motherboard supports quite a few. You can get a Xeon e3 1270 v3 for like 35 bucks, that's about the same performance as a stock i7 4770k. As for the gpu, I'd go for an RX 6600 or 6600xt, those two generally outperform the RTX 3060 in anything not ray tracing related, and they're available between 250 and 300. With those two upgrades you should have a good time for the next couple of years. You should be able to land that xeon and an rx 6600 for sub 300 total. If you find the performance on your build still lacking due to your CPU it's no big deal, it was only 35 bucks and you can move that GPU to your new build when you get around to it.

https://www.cpu-world.com/Compare_CPUs/Intel_CM8064601464206,Intel_CM8064601467101/

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx-6650-xt-review/4

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[Wayfall]

I remember the good old time when I use to have a i5 4460 and R9 270. Played great I could pull 60 on Medium Witcher 3 50-60fps and enjoyed playing the battlefield games. But when BF1 and Fallout 4 came out it really struggled so went for an GTX 970 and i7 4790K.

After that I went to my current build which is the i7 6800k and GTX 1080, needed new mobo and ram ofc.

Your will need to do a full rip out to progress with performance.