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Probably best to do a full rebuild. My 4670K @4.2GHz has been fine for me but then I haven't thrown anything harder at it than GTA V and F1 2018. I had it paired with a GTX970 which just got to around 60fps (at 1920x1200) even on those games, so for anything newer it would require a new CPU and GPU - and since my Haswell board is DDR3 then that's also new memory, so basically a complete rebuild. Put it this way, Red Dead Redemption 2 is out of the question on those specs.
 
Realistically you want at least 8 threads minimum so a Ryzen 5 or 10th Gen Core i5 would be the obvious starting point for some decent longevity (both being 6 core/12 thread).

They already dropped the microtransactions cost.

Damn dude.  Apple is taking the gloves off.

Epic is trying to do a PR stunt, but they forgot they are hated by the people they are trying to provoke into action with this. they are acting like the good guy fighting the bad guy, but they forget that they've done plenty of anti consumer stuff... 

Absolutely not. Being on the App Store is a privileged, not a right. Apple can take any developer off of the App Store for any reason.  

Apple has a lot at stake here. They are fighting for control of their own platform. They are not going to back down. 

You definitely need a new gpu and most likely a cpu upgrade. Cyberpunk minimum spec has an i5-4670k which isn't far off from 4790k. If you are trying to buy used I'd checkout ebay after the rtx 3000 series reveal  in a week. Some 980ti's went for under half price when the 10 series cards were announced. Ryzen 4000 series is reportedly coming out october/novemberish i think.  I don't expect massive improvements on the cpu side, but it's something to keep in mind. 

Quad core cpu:s are getting worse and worse on games, and soon almost all games are made for 8 core 16 thread zen2 cpu:s clocked to 3.8GHz. Maybe buy a new gpu first and see if it helps, if not get a new 8-core cpu(zen2 or zen3), motherboard and at least 2x8GB of ram.

Oh okay, then maybe better to start from scratch?

That much for a CPU plus a new motherboard that you can OC with is a lot to invest in an old system.

I try and stretch my hardware as far as it'll go because the longer it lasts the better value I get when I finally have to upgrade (moore's law etc.) but if you want VR right away I guess a new build would probably be the way to go.

The cost of a 4790k is stupid. Used, they're around $300. I got lucky and scored a used server pull Xeon for $100, but it's not smart to drop $300 on a CPU you probably won't use for more than a year; plus, his board does not support OCing.

I love my 980, I may have won the silicon lottery with it (OCed, it hits power limits, but never gets over 75c, I usually drop the OC back to keep it at 70c), but I know that it isn't powerful enough for modern games.
 
You COULD use the 970 for a temporary card, but it's going to bottleneck your system. I'd at least keep it as a backup card, in any event.

My suggestion is to start from scratch. New board, new CPU, new graphics card, new RAM.
 
I'm almost in an identical situation, except I have a Haswell Xeon that's roughly equivalent to your 4790, 32 GB of DDR3, and a GTX 980. I've been eyeing a 9900k and a 2080TI. Also considering a Ryzen 3900x or similar.
 
I think you should set a budget, and build a system for the budget.