Need help upgrading my PC (Very little experience)

[Sushiz]

Hello, I would appreciate any help from you guys, I've had the same Hardware set up since a couple of years now, I need help in regards to suggestions as to what I should upgrade and to what.

I'm not really looking for high end specs, just above average, things that will run stuff like Evolve and Overwatch kinda games.

Here's what I currently have through Dxdiag:

Card: AMD Radeon HD 5700 Series

Processor: AMD Athlon II x 4 630 Processor (4 CPUs) ` 2.8ghz

Memory: 4 GB ram (One of the sticks is corrupted though so I just kept it in, but definitely need a new one)

Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., GA-MA770T-UD3P (Socket M2)

My monitor is SyncMaster BX2250 if it matters.

Thanks for the help.

 

[tiny voices]

Your CPU will bottleneck the 970.

 

[Sushiz]

Not entirely sure about that, It is compatible with it as far as I know and can run it, will see how it turns out.

 

[tiny voices]

It is compatible, but that doesn't mean anything. It WILL bottleneck the card in mos tall games. This is just a fact.

 

[madmatt30]

^ agree with tinyvoices 100% - your phenom is old & slow now - its as big a handicap as your current GPU.
Even a cheap 760k will absolutely slaughter it in performance.
I would honestly go with a gtx 960 or r9 280 + 8gb ram,leave the PSU as your enermax is fairly decent.
When you realise you're still handicapped by your CPU/mb you'll have some budget left to replace then.
Spending the majority of your budget on a 970 & not having enough left to upgrade the rest of the system would be a daft thing to do IMO.

 

[Sushiz]

I see, well I already placed the orders for the GTX and ram, the next step is upgrading that then, thanks again.