My PC people I need some help upgrading my pc

[YounqD]

Okay, I want to buy a GTX 970, cause its better than what I have and I don't want to buy the higher and better ones right now cause I don't wanna spend all my money on the graphics card. Now I don't know too much about PCs but I believe I would need a better processor to keep up with the graphics card, and a better power supply idk? So yeah, here's my specs and i'm hoping someone could lead me to what I would need if I do need anything, it doesn't have to be the best of the best just whatever is necessary; so if its the minimum to keep up with the graphics card that's fine.

Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Processor: AMD FX(tm)-4130 Quad-Core Proccesor 3.80 GHz
RAM: 8gb

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[Pngu12970]

Well the FX 4130 isn't a whole lot faster than my Phenom II X4 B55 (955) and mine bottlenecks a 750 Ti which is quite a lot slower than the 970. You'd probably be better off settling for a 960. I would also wait for input from other people that might be more experienced than me though.

[YounqD]

Well the FX 4130 isn't a whole lot faster than my Phenom II X4 B55 (955) and mine bottlenecks a 750 Ti which is quite a lot slower than the 970. You'd probably be better off settling for a 960. I would also wait for input from other people that might be more experienced than me though.

So if I were to get a 960, I wouldn't have to change my processor?

[Foxscotch]

So if I were to get a 960, I wouldn't have to change my processor?

you wouldn't HAVE to change it either way

[YounqD]

you wouldn't HAVE to change it either way

Ahh I see, so all in all my processor is pretty good for the 960, but if I wanted something like a Titan X, or if I just wanted more power I could upgrade it.

[Foxscotch]

Ahh I see, so all in all my processor is pretty good for the 960, but if I wanted something like a Titan X, or if I just wanted more power I could upgrade it.

I don't know much about the way individual processors or graphics cards compare to each other, but you would be better off getting whatever is the best thing you can afford now, that would make the biggest improvement. a bottleneck isn't as big a deal as people make it out to be. upgrade one now, you can always upgrade the other later, and you'll wind up seeing an obvious improvement. however if you just buy a small upgrade for BOTH, now, you'll be disappointed...

what I would really suggest doing, though, is waiting until you can afford to make a substantial upgrade to both at the same time. plus, it'll be in the future (durr), so whatever's released by then will be better than anything you could get now, either way you did it

[Mr Queeba]

One sec, going to check bottlenecks.
Your CPU is apparently going to bottleneck that 970 a good bit, you may want to get a lower tier graphics card unless you're willing to upgrade your CPU or you plan on upgrading it later. You might even wanna do what Foxscotch said above and wait to get enough money for a full substantial upgrade.

[YounqD]

I don't know much about the way individual processors or graphics cards compare to each other, but you would be better off getting whatever is the best thing you can afford now, that would make the biggest improvement. a bottleneck isn't as big a deal as people make it out to be. upgrade one now, you can always upgrade the other later, and you'll wind up seeing an obvious improvement. however if you just buy a small upgrade for BOTH, now, you'll be disappointed...

what I would really suggest doing, though, is waiting until you can afford to make a substantial upgrade to both at the same time. plus, it'll be in the future (durr), so whatever's released by then will be better than anything you could get now, either way you did it

Yeah I might wait till I can just upgrade both so I don't have to deal with the bottlenecks, plus i'd rather go straight to the 970 instead of the 960 then eventually get a 970. Thanks for the advice on that.

One sec, going to check bottlenecks.
Your CPU is apparently going to bottleneck that 970 a good bit, you may want to get a lower tier graphics card unless you're willing to upgrade your CPU or you plan on upgrading it later. You might even wanna do what Foxscotch said above and wait to get enough money for a full substantial upgrade.

Okay, so I just did a quick search for some CPU's i'm not sure the power difference but would a AMD fx 6300 AMD fx 8350 be good? Or would it still bottleneck the 970

[Mr Queeba]

Okay, so I just did a quick search for some CPU's i'm not sure the power difference but would a AMD fx 6300 AMD fx 8350 be good? Or would it still bottleneck the 970

Checked with the bottleneck utility I use and that CPU should work good with a 970. Also, if I were you, I would go for the GTX 1060 instead, it's quite a bit better and is around the same price range as a 970.

[YounqD]

Checked with the bottleneck utility I use and that CPU should work good with a 970. Also, if I were you, I would go for the GTX 1060 instead, it's quite a bit better and is around the same price range as a 970.

I just checked, and you're right it is pretty much the same price and its better, it might even be cheaper actually. Thanks for the help everybody