GPU upgrade 2 GB Evga GTX 550 Ti suggestions?

I am looking to upgrade to a 970 GTX Gigabyte G1 Gaming or an EVGA if I'm looking at other brands as well.

Budget around $350.00 USD.

I'm still doing research and research with options open but I'm really more leaning to the Nvidia 970.

My CPU is limiting the PCI-E x 16 running at 2.0 speeds, but even with that, I think that the 970 would be

the best choice in the GPU upgrade.  Thoughts or alternatives?  You want something that works long term and not just

buy something cheap, until the next thing comes.

I'm NOT a gamer I mainly webdesign so a lot of image, video and audio editing. I'm more a combination

between an advertising marketing exec and a web developer with programming in PHP, JavaScript and all back-end

stuff with databases and also web video and audio stuff etc... I just combine it all in the title of Web Designer for the conversation

who actually confuses real webdesigners because I build a LOT more than just html and css pages.

It is a type of prosumer system where it is used for work and entertainment. Watching movies and streaming video

This works well on the current computer and I actually don't really need more of an upgrade beyond the GPU as this computer

It meets my needs and has 2 years.  I expect to keep for a few years, I have built computers that will last

me 3 to 5 years, will eventually build a new, but for now everything works great.

I honestly don't care about having the biggest and best just something that will work for more than a year or two and meet my needs.

But it seems that the GPU tech is going through a revolution where the old technology begins to be depreciated and will not be taken in charge a large part

in the future I am looking to get a new video card might as well go with the new stuff now so it will be supported in the long term

everyone at some point.

I'm just confused by models and manufacturers or resellers who slap their label on Nvidia technology.  Who is the best with little no.

problems.  EVGA seems to be popular, it's my current card brand, but I like the Gigabyte G1 with additional display ports and

possibility of having 4 monitors at the same time IF it can be inserted into my system, it's HUGE.

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Hardware specifications:

PSU: VisionTek 800W < == will be upgrade to a 750 or 850-Watt Seasonic, Antec or Evga also.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2PV ver 2.0

CPU: Intel CPU i7-2600 @ 3.40 GHz Stock using stock intel cooler fan

HD: 3 x - 1 to disk WD Blue and two black discs

Memory: 16 GB Ram 2 x - 8 GB memory-crucial

The blue drive is the system drive to the approximately 700 GB of the disk format and divided in two with

Windows 7 64 bit Pro and 8.1 of Windows in dual boot.  No SSD not because of the MOBO only being 3 GB and not 6.

It was custom built by a store of the local computer that is off from where go out of business.

The upgrade of processor or motherboard is NOT an option that some purchased software is old school licensed

with attached directly to the CPU and the MOBO that cost more than the entire computer to buy

licenses (not associated with Adobe Professional software).  In addition the upgrade MOBO or CPU, you are required to

Microsoft to buy a new license for windows and windows 7 can probably just reactivated windows 8 can not.

This motherboard is a motherboard micro, I didn't know that until recently. I did not build the computer myself.

I had no idea of what food was until a few days ago, but everything worked 100% for about 2 years.

I'll have to update the bios of the motherboard before actually being able to use the new video card, but others have the same model

and it seems to work as well... I have a request to Gigabyte but just to check before actually buying.

Remember though it is a Ti 550 video card I currently have and almost any update would see great improvement.

Physical size wise how much greater is the 970 compared to 550 it 2 GB Evga gtx?   I add 2 GB because it

are other 550 which are totally different aspect that my card.

Also if you have any suggestions for the PSU that would be much too.   So far Seasonic, Antec and EVGA are brands that seem to

forthcoming models much earlier.  Not sure about the rating as some out Bronze models perform other models gold or Platinum so...

Budget about $150.00 USD for a new power supply too.

Thanks for reading this and for any suggestion, sorry that I can't upgrade mobo or cpu to be able to run amok with ideas, it is some what may be limiting.

Essentially, it's the GPU and PSU will extend my current level of use of a few years and the GPU has better performance even with

the other tech and bottlenecks in this particular system.

Like Bob of the Peru said. The money you would have spent on a GTX 970 would have been much larger than any improvement in performance that you could achieve (on a systemic basis, not only a specific component). In fact, the cost of a single GTX 970 would have been almost as much money as the rest of your entire system combined - and yet, the upgrade provides more than an improvement of 5 to 10 percent in terms of total return.

Very recently, I upgraded an i7 - 3770K and Z77 to an i7 - 4790K and Z97. Mainly because I wanted to spend my project/player and cache drive to SSD (s) in the not too distant future. (The Z77 supports two SATA 6.0 Gbps ports and 4 SATA ports 3.0 Gbps in native mode, which is the impetus for this upgrade). But in order to take account of the upgrade of the CPU, I had to get off my GPU slightly to a 660 GTX for a GTX 750 Ti (for my particular workflow, GTX 750 it performed almost as well as the GPU high-end in terms of overall performance of the system).

That said, there are reasons to move a GPU for a GPU to budget (or even ultra-low-budget, for that matter) to a 'Warrior' or the 'monster' GPU. But improving rendering performance on such a limited as LGA 1155 Sandy Bridge platform is not one of them. And a GPU upgrade is valid IMHO only if the rest of the construction of PC is to speed - with a much higher total system start-up costs.

Moreover, a single 1 TB WD black or blue (versions WD10EZEX and WD1003FZEX, respectively) may not achieve the best 180 - ish MB/sec - and it's on the outside tracks of his tray. A HDD WD four-year-old (Blue WD10EALS or Black WD1002FAEX) at 7200 RPM have barely hit 125 MB/s on the outside rails. As such, with disks one alone, I agree with the other responses: remember to save it upward to an i7-4790 a W97 chipsets motherboard instead of lose a single penny on this generation i7-2600/H61 (your current system, by the way, is completely maxed out on RAM to only 16 GB total - and you can not pass the RAM any more far away).

In other words, your current PC is, indeed, obsolete (as in "cancelled" or 'is there something better now in this category', not ' is no longer useful or usable").

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