I'm upgrading my current system when I got my pc a friend told me that the fx 4100 that I have now was grate I just started messing with computers like two months ago at the time of me buy pc I was told that I would have no problem with anything I wanted to do come to Find out that the gtx 970 is getting bottle necked pretty bad from the 4100
What's your motherboard? You want something decent to power a FX8xxx CPU, no point upgrading to a 6xxx range CPU. However the best thing to do from a gaming performance point of view is sell your CPU and motherboard and switch to an i5