Should I upgrade my CPU?

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I currently have a phenom ii X4 970 and was wondering if I should upgrade my CPU (I will also have to upgrade my mobo as it is only an am3 board) so should I upgrade yet? and if so, what should I upgrade to?
 
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Well, I was going to upgrade my GPU but people were saying my CPU would bottleneck it, I was going to get an R9 280 but then people were saying my CPU only utilise about half of my GPU power, I am not very tech savvy so I just went with it and thought it would be better to upgrade the CPU first, is this not the case?
 
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RAM: Corsair vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600MHZ
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-MA74GMT-S2
PSU: Corsair CX750
HDD: 2TB WD caviar Green
Case: Enermax Uber Chakra

I only use it for Gaming, however I do play some pretty intense games like Elite: Dangerous, BF4, ETC
 
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You should be fine, games aren't very well threaded anyway and your CPU wont effect your frame rate until it reaches a roof, once you get your new card just play it at low settings then high settings and if the frame rate doesn't change then you need to get a new CPU
 
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I assume you mean 4690K as I can't find a "4890k" what GPU are you using?

 
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