Upgrade from a GTX 970

[Goldenrig]

Hi all.

I’m looking to upgrade from my GTX 970. What would be the best card to upgrade to? Should I now invest in RTX? If I plan to upgrade my screen ect at a later date. I’m happy gaming at 1080p 144hz. Budget is up to £400

PC Specs:
CPU: A406 - Intel Core i7 4790
CPU Cooler: B102 - BeQuiet! Pure Rock
RAM: C212 - 16GB Corsair 2400mhz Vengeance Pro (2x8GB)
Graphics card: D107 - NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970 4GB
Motherboard: 4247 - Asus Z97-P
Operating System: F105 - Windows 10 Home (64-bit)
Hard Drive: G103 - 2TB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s + 240g SSD
Case: K323 - NZXT S340 Black
PSU: K607 - 750W FSP
Internet: G205 - Gigabyte Wireless 802.11AC 867Mbps + Bluetooth PCI-E Card
Sound Card: Q302 - Onboard 7.1 Audio
Monitors: M210 - Asus 24" VG248QE 144Hz Gaming LEDgood

 

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What games do you currently play?

 

[Goldenrig]

ESO online
Warzone
Tomb raider
Control
F14 online
The Witcher
Rocket league

New stuff

indie stuff


pretty much anything and everything

 

[Winston]

5700xt, especially as your monitor isn't gsync
First dibs on your 970

 

[greatash]

bad time to upgrade, id get a 1660s and save the rest for the next round of cards

 

[ANDREW GREEN]

5700XT or wait a few months for RDNA2 and 3000s series to drop

 

[nomadd]

Hi all.

I’m looking to upgrade from my GTX 970. What would be the best card to upgrade to? Should I now invest in RTX? If I plan to upgrade my screen ect at a later date. I’m happy gaming at 1080p 144hz. Budget is up to £400

If you are happy gaming @1080p, just stick with what you have. My second gaming PC has a GTX970 and still plays great at that resolution.

When I built my new PC, I jumped to a 144Hz 1440p monitor and a 1080Ti (as they had a great price at the time) and only then was it worth it.

I'd say hold fire, and let all the new cards trickle out over the next few months; then maybe jump up to a 1440p monitor (as you aren't looking for ultra-high refresh gaming) and something with 1080Ti/2080 levels of performance - maybe a 3060/70 or new AMD equivalent.

 

[opethdisciple]

Buy nothing and hang on for dear life. New cards dropping from AMD and Nvidia in the next few months.

Bad time to be in the market for a new GPU.

 

[LanDi]

You might be lucky but the drivers put me right off the 5700xt -good for mining though. I like amd and wanted it to be good but to save yourself the trouble and go Nvidia, had no iddues with my 970 (which i still have doing nothing), what ever in your budget mentioned by others aboive would be great, yes its not a great time to get one with inflated prices and new cards about to drop but if you dont want to wait then go for it.

 

[Goldenrig]

Thank you all. Happy to wait a few months of that’s the case