Next part to upgrade

[genericmonicker]

I have a pc that I bought off a local guy, new parts, old case. Runs fine, but id like to improve it. When I switched from my old gpu (AMD 5770) to the new one (gtx 970) I thought I would see a major upgrade in graphics. My frame rate is better, but no major improvement. So... am I exspecting too much? or do I need to replace one of the following?;

CPU- AMD A10-5800K APU AT 3.80-
RAM- 8 GIG DDR3
MB-GIGABYTE GA-F2A55M-
PSU- SEASONIC 700W
HDD- WESTERN DIGITAL 500G
WINDOWS 10-64 BIT
GPU-MSI NVIDIA GTX 970

mONITOR-HERES THE TURD I THINK- AOC 2250W
I think the monitor is the turd here, but if not, what is the best piece to replace?
THANKYOU

 

[genthug]

You're expecting too much of your CPU. It's not a great CPU. I would only recommend a 970 with an 8xxx series processor, nevermind a quad core APU.

 

[spat55]

You want to upgrade the APU or as you labeled it CPU and get something from the intel side, no fanboyism but you want to upgrade to at least a i5 of some kind, preferably Skylake. The APU is holding back the whole machine.