Upgrade advice

[Hawkesbury]

Hello,

A friend of mine would like to upgrade his Dell XPS8700. He has about £250 and would like to see some visual improvements.

Current specs are:

4th Gen Intel Core i7-4770 processor (8M Cache, up to 3.9 GHz)
12GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz - 4 DIMMs
2TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive + Intel SRT 32GB SSD Cache
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1.0GB GDDR5
PSU is an unbranded 460W.

I was thinking that the a new PSU and a GTX960. Or is it worth ignoring the PSU and getting a 970?

Any thoughts?

 

[Hawkesbury]

Many thanks. Haven't spent much time looking at the cards but is there an optimum card within the 960's. They all seem quite similar.

PSU - do i need to be looking at 600W or is that overkill considering that the cards are quite efficient?

 

[Hawkesbury]

Many thanks pastymuncher.

If the PSU will be alright with a 960 I will suggest he leaves it.

In real performance is the ASUS GeForce GTX 960 DirectCU2 OC Strix 4096MB GDDR5 worth the 16% more it costs than Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 OC 4096MB?