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I currently have a GTX 970 that I bought many years ago. I purchased a 1080p 144hz monitor recently and have noticed sometimes the GPU is always maxed running games at high settings at 144hz. Is it worth upgrading a GTX 970 into, say a RX590 or GTX 1660/TI? Thank you for any help in advance!

It was more of hoping that I didn't have to buy new mobo/ram/cpu but I will just get a new GPU after the RTX launches and 1080's drop down in price.

While researching brackets for my Kraken X61, I found NZXT actually offers a free AM4 bracket, after verification. So shortly after I receive my parts, I can get a free bracket to get that cooler back on, in case people didn't know they don't offer this option.

Ok I have ordered everything, I can't express enough how much help you all have been! I will update this once I get the parts installed and running. THANK YOU!!!

Yea the B450-A is actually $8 more (after rebate) than the B350 Tomahawk, so that doesn't break the bank. So now I have the Ryzen 5 2600, B450-A, and same memory. I might finally be good to order this tonight haha.

I was just looking at that, was comparing the B450 Gaming Plus and the B450-A, seems the only different is color unless I am missing something.

hmmm, I might have to cut back on the memory for that, as I don't actually have 2 days of shipping plus the 7-10 days for AMD to sent a boot kit, I do work on this PC that needs to get back up and running.

hmmm, the Q&A section seems to imply that you will need to bios update to support 2000 series.

Newegg, I get free 2 day shipping with them.

It's the CPU, it does always hit 100% and i'm running on a SSD that was from a year ago, so I am going to get a new CPU. This is my current checkout... Ryzen 5 2600 (was only $10 more than the 1600) MSI B350 TOMAHAWK CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 So my total with coupon and shipping looks to be $410.80. Good deal?

Yea I plan to save up for a new GPU, maybe try to snag one after the RTX drops, as the prices should drop or second hand should prices should be fairly good.

The 1070/1080 is not within my budget I established.

I am currently doing pricing as we speak, Ryzen is likely going to be my choice (just a fan of AMD I guess lol). Thank you everyone for the great help!

By sluggish I mean some games can be a bit blurry (recently Monster Hunter: World) and some chopping seems to be happening here and there. Ran some benchmarks in Heaven and found I am getting 64fps with ultra, 8x and no tessellation while with normal tessellation I am getting ~54fps. I was really hoping it wasn't the cpu, as I have a Kraken AIO and not sure how it's going to work with the mounting on a new socket style. Seems like everyone so far is in agreement the cpu is likely what is holding me back.

I am currently running a GTX970 Zotac graphics card, which works well but seems to be getting sluggish when playing some of the newer games. I have a $250-$400 budget available to dedicate to a new gpu and would like some recommendations as what to look into. I currently have an ASUS VH232 monitor (23" LCD 1080p). Just incase, my cpu is an AMD FX-6300 (yes my cpu is behind but I only really game so I don't think that is much of an issue, please correct me if it really is). Any recommendations are appreciated, thanks in advance.