Not Sure What To Upgrade

[LOU-OF-THE-LEFT-HAND]

I am looking to upgrade my PC for my birthday coming up in April, I was thinking of getting a GTX970 but I am only going to be able to afford £500 or a little bit over. What processors go well with this? My current one is the AMDfx 4300 quad core. Would I have to upgrade my CPU or not? Also my current graphics card is the AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series also my motherboard is the PCI Exspress 2.0. Bear in mind i need to get a new monitor aswell. Forgive me if i sound a bit uneducated in PC building I'm quite new to it.

I play lots of games varying from the total war franchise to fallout to counter strike.

Thanks in advance for any responses.

 

[aces19]

What are your current specs? Would you be interested in building a new PC?

 

[LOU-OF-THE-LEFT-HAND]

What are your current specs? Would you be interested in building a new PC?

It's a bit out of my price range at the minute, I was hoping just to be able to beef my PC up to be able to play without stuttering or just massive fps drops. I have been playing total war attila recently and during the bigger battles it will tank my fps and it will become unplayable and that will only be with max 6-8k troops on the battlefield.

 

[firefoxx04]

The 970 is a nice GPU, only a few games will cause bottlenecking with your CPU.. but that does not mean that the performance will be terrible.

You can always upgrade to a 6 or 8 core AMD CPU, but game performance does not scale linearly with more cores, so be careful. Also, your motherboard and power supply will have to be considered.

I would just get the GPU, and if you find that the performance is bottlenecked (low GPU usage, 100% CPU usage), then you can build something later.

 

[LOU-OF-THE-LEFT-HAND]

The 970 is a nice GPU, only a few games will cause bottlenecking with your CPU.. but that does not mean that the performance will be terrible.

You can always upgrade to a 6 or 8 core AMD CPU, but game performance does not scale linearly with more cores, so be careful. Also, your motherboard and power supply will have to be considered.

I would just get the GPU, and if you find that the performance is bottlenecked (low GPU usage, 100% CPU usage), then you can build something later.

So what would be the best thing to do, just get the GPU and see how it go's then if I want to add later do it later on?

Wow I only just realised had repeated what you just said