What part should I upgrade?

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I've been thinking for the last few days about what I should do next, (I recently put the SSD in), and I'm here for your opinions. I'm thinking either the CPU or GPU but don't wanna get bottlenecked. I'll eventually be able to do both, but for now I am upgrading just one. I mainly play WoW and have Windows 8, I'm thinking either a GTX 970 or 980 for the GPU and don't have my sights set on any CPU's. Thanks :)

CPU: AMD FX-8320 CPU (8x 3.50GHz/8MB L3 Cache)

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P -- AMD 970

GPU: AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB

PSU: Corsair CX600 V2 - 80 PLUS Bronze

Case: Raidmax Horus Gaming Case

RAM: DDR3-1866 G.SKILL RipjawsX 8 GB (4 GB x 2)

HDD: 1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive

Cooling System: Asetek 510LC Liquid CPU Cooling System

SSD: SanDisk Extreme PRO 240GB SATA 6.0Gb/s
 
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Your close to the end of the line with your cpu and socket type if you want to see improvements you will have to upgrade to a more powerful cpu with more single core performance (Intel) your best option would be to save up until you can get a new cpu,mobo and gpu at the same time.
Your system s perfect atm , why would you want to change that ?? GTX 970 and 980 may get bottlenecked in cpu intensive games but overall you ll feel difference . If you upgrade cpu you wont feel anything different cause your gpu is working full capacity atm anyways . So if you just wanna improve your pc , first get a gpu that s gonna get bottlenecked and then later on you may buy a better cpu or maybe not , cause if WoW is only game you play all these just nonsense .
 
Your close to the end of the line with your cpu and socket type if you want to see improvements you will have to upgrade to a more powerful cpu with more single core performance (Intel) your best option would be to save up until you can get a new cpu,mobo and gpu at the same time.
 
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