upgrade advice Advice for potential upgrade

[TheOriginalGolem]

I am currently looking to upgrade my GPU as its starting to battle to run modern games even at low, and i want to get into vr, i found a great deal on a used 1070 ti 8GB that was in an old crypto miner for around R3600 (about $210 USD)

 

My Current setup:

CPU: i7-4790
GPU: GTX 960 2GB

RAM: 16 (4 X 4GB) Kingston 1600Mhz

PSU: 700W

 

I have 3 questions:

1. How badly will the CPU bottleneck the system?

2. How reliable is a second hand mining card?

3. What would performance be like in vr with a oculus rift s headset?

 

Many thanks in advance

[boggy77]

2 minutes ago, TheOriginalGolem said:

1. How badly will the CPU bottleneck the system?

it's going to be fine with a 1070ti

2 minutes ago, TheOriginalGolem said:

2. How reliable is a second hand mining card?

if it works, it works. usually they are undervolted and kept cool, so even if they run 224/7 for a long time, they should still have life in them

3 minutes ago, TheOriginalGolem said:

3. What would performance be like in vr with a oculus rift s headset?

depends on the game? i guess it should be pretty good, the 1070ti is somewhere around 2060 performance