need help upgrading a monitor and a GPU

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Gad Ofir

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i want to upgrade my 2 year old pc i got an old non 1080p screen
and hd 6850 gpu.
i want to buy the asus 248qe http://www.asus.com/il/Monitors_Projectors/VG248QE/
and gtx 970!

here is my qustion ,i have http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3765#ov
motherboard and the spec say i have only 8x pci lens and the 970 is 16x i think
do i have problem or its only in sli setup that i will be effcted?

another thught i have 2500K cpu is it good enugh for the 970
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2311481/gtx-970-980-bottleneck-2500k.html
some say i whuld

thnks alot....:)
 
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You have a PCI-E x16 slot that is currently occupied by your present Graphics Card. It will support a GTX 970.

Your CPU is borderline for the newer Graphics Card. Upgrade it if you can but you won't suffer very significant performance loss with your current CPU.
 
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Gad Ofir

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i dont wont to upgrade i was thinking about a litle oc?
do you think 4.0 ghz is enough?

or maybe there are other parmters that i cant overclock to get full benfit?

 
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It's probable you'll get full benefit as it is.

The only way to be certain is to run benchmarking programs to determine if your scores are within parameters for your hardware or not.

Regardless, if after benchmarking, you think you're under-performing, then by all means, overclock. If you still think you're under-performing then consider a new CPU.

An i5-2500k is a nice little processor. It should stand you fine for that GPU.
 
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Gad Ofir

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i will buy a new cpu but only when the new intel arectucre is out, i see no reason to upgrde for 10%(best case) more
but a good gpu and a good monitor will come with to the next build tnx for all the help man you are good pepole!!
 
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