Reposting instead of editing since it didn't mark the changes in the thread.
It seems like newegg restocked the MSI GTX 970 4G. Now the million dollar question: Are "GPU bottlenecks" a real thing? Most multicore processors from the past 3 or 4 years are plenty fast, and let's face it gamers love myths.
My situation is this: I will be moving in about a year and will fully upgrade then. In the meantime I want to upgrade my GPU. I have an old Phenom II X6 1090T OC'ed to 3.7 GHz. If I upgrade my GPU now, I will simply be pre-buying one of the components so it's not like I intend to stay this way. But if I won't see much gain from my current GTX 560 Ti, I might as well wait and save some money, get a more recent card, or whatever. I can probably OC a bit more to 3.8 or maybe even 4 GHz (on air).
From what I read a stock (3.2 Ghz) PII 1090T is somewhat comparable to an i5 3570, except in single-threaded applications.
So, suggestions?