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Time to upgrade my gfx
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Good luck in getting one.
Honestly if you're still on the 970 I'd say it pairs quite well with your old i5-4460.
If you could score a second hand 8GB RX580 or 6GB 1060 for under £150 it might be worth it (although gains would be minimal outside of more VRAM since you might want to heavily mod Skyrim/FO4), but I highly doubt you'll be that lucky, and I wouldn't bother spending more with your current setup.
If you could score a second hand 8GB RX580 or 6GB 1060 for under £150 it might be worth it (although gains would be minimal outside of more VRAM since you might want to heavily mod Skyrim/FO4), but I highly doubt you'll be that lucky, and I wouldn't bother spending more with your current setup.
You my friend are a prime candidate of actually being able to properly take advantage of a full system upgrade by buying a pre-built ...seriously, it's one of the only ways to be able to reliably get a modern GPU without being ripped off right now. In your case you could actually use a top to bottom upgrade by the looks of it, you will need about £1500 ish to do this though of course. I mention this as you didn't mention budget, I suspect I've gone waaaaay overboard, but reality of the market right now is you can't just buy a new GPU that's better than your GTX 970. I know there are some low end models with 4GB of vram in the sub £200 bracket but those really aren't any faster than what you already have, not in any meaningful way anyway.
Like Moeks suggested a full upgrade could probably really help, if not gpu wise - 3060ti/3070 or a 6700xt will suit you well imo.
For example, me moving from a 2700k Intel at 4.4 with a 5700xt (7k timespy) to a 3900xt amd and 6700xt (12k timespy). The 6700 is supposed to be about 30% faster at 1440p, so that means the other % is from my better ram and cpu.
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Yeah but you might want to join the 21st century one day
I'd check out the i5 11400F as its a very good gaming CPU and only £150 pair this with a B560 and 16gb ram so a nice upgrade although you won't really be able to leverage the extra CPU power till you get a newer GPU but it's something you will need when you get one anyway.
1080P means your CPU is more likely to bottleneck I believe. I have a 6700XT and a 2700K and I can run things flat out in 4K with 40% CPU usage, because the requirement for GPU grunt is much higher than the requirement for CPU grunt.
If I tried to play 1080P high refresh rate, it would bottleneck like a MF.
If I tried to play 1080P high refresh rate, it would bottleneck like a MF.
2700k as in Intel? If so could you run time spy, wondering what your score is as that's my old cpu (@4. 4 for me)
Beat me to it ! 
Keep the 970 save your money and do a proper full upgrade later or buy a full system with a 3070/3060ti for around £1400 although I have seen a 3080 system for £1999.
Keep the 970 save your money and do a proper full upgrade later or buy a full system with a 3070/3060ti for around £1400 although I have seen a 3080 system for £1999.
Beat me to it !
Keep the 970 save your money and do a proper full upgrade later or buy a full system with a 3070/3060ti for around £1400 although I have seen a 3080 system for £1999.
Yep what Varkanoid said....if you have a bit of money, then prebuild systems are the way to go, as they will come with a GPU. If you prefer to build your own, or just upgrade your present system, you might find the GPU and other things hard to find.
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Pricing has gone insane for graphic cards both new and second hand.
Like others have suggested the best chance is probably get a pre-built system so the graphic card would still be more or less at close to RRP. Your CPU definitely need upgrading...even my previous system with the i5 2500K overclocked to 4.60GHz would bottlenecking my Vega64 in number of games, so your stock i5 4460 at 3.40GHz got no chance not long significantly bottlenecking more modern graphic card, especially when you are gaming at 1080p instead of higher res.
Beat me to it !
Keep the 970 save your money and do a proper full upgrade later or buy a full system with a 3070/3060ti for around £1400 although I have seen a 3080 system for £1999.
I would second this as you have a old i5 so 4 core no hyper threading , and will also be on ddr3 so slow memory for today's standards.