Question Should I get this VGA?

[LuKaWin10]

Should I get the MSI 970 GTX VGA as my main graphics card in this PC? Specs:

Motherboard: P35-DS3 rev 2.1 (with Xeon and SLIC 2.1 modded to it)

GPU: GT 730 (I want the GTX 970)

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (OC to 3.67 GHz)

RAM: G.SKILL F2-6400-CL5D 800 MHz DDR2, 5-5-5-15, 4 Gigabytes (other 4 will arrive soon)

PSU: MSI MAG A650BN, 650W PSU

Add-on Cards (PCI and PCI-E): TP-LINK TG3468 Ethernet Card, and one other PCI Ethernet card

Case: DELUX MG760 Case

 

[stonecarver]

One more thing to throw your way is if you do go for the GTX 980 like Eximo suggested look for the GTX 980ti it has 6Gb's of memory vs the 4Gb's of the non ti model.

 

[LuKaWin10]

One more thing to throw your way is if you do go for the GTX 980 like Eximo suggested look for the GTX 980ti it has 6Gb's of memory vs the 4Gb's of the non ti model.

Fair enough. I did check out the price, around 90 euros with shipping, too much for me ;(. But will the 970 be enough?

 

[Eximo]

Enough is relative, you can always reduce settings and resolution until something is playable. It is the very new modern games that likely won't run. (Some will be OS limited anyway) Too low of VRAM in some cases, and others may need newer DX features the card doesn't have.

Relative performance compared to the GT730 will be massive. If we could compare them directly (you really can't) the GTX970 is 4 times larger as a GPU with about 5 times the memory bandwidth.

Even a GTX960 would be quite the improvement.