GPU Upgrade, See much of a difference?

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Hi, I got the go ahead from the wife to spend some money on some PC parts. Being that this is a rare occasion that may or may not have involved a large amount of wine, I want to make sure to drop the money in the right place. My current system is a Win10 i5-3470 3.2ghz, 8GB RAM, and a GTX 660 Ti. The PC is mostly for gaming (currently Fallout 4, but I play a little bit of everything).
I can spend somewhere around the $200 mark without ending up in divorce court.
I have been leaning towards a GPU upgrade... Likely a R9 380 or GTX 960, but I am not sure that is the right move.

Is my thinking correct? Am I likely to see much of an improvement in current games? Is there something else I should be considering? Or should I just hold off for now and wait until the next line of GPUs comes down the pipe?
 
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I am not a god in overclocking either, but as I said overclocking that 660Ti would bring you just under the level of a stock 960.

A factory overclocked 960 will be a little upgrade - less power consumption, more power, new technologies and perks.

If that's an option, I would wait to get GTX 970 or R9 390 OR the new R9 380x that came out recently - again, if you go AMD, you might run into some heat and driver issues as well as noise.

If you could find the same 660 Ti on eBay, you could run the two cards in SLI if your motherboard and PSU support it.
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The i5-3470 is still a decent CPU so you are good there. 8GB of RAM is enough for gaming so no need to get more.

Overclocking that 660Ti would bring you just under the level of a stock 960. R9 380 is a bit better but it runs hotter and you can face some driver issues. If you could save up, getting a GTX 970 would be much better.

 
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I have mucked about a bit with overclocking the 660Ti but I probably need to do some more testing with it. What I found with it in Fallout 4 is that any amount of Overclocking tends to make the game VERY unstable. I am unsure if that is my hardware or just Fallout 4 though. I don't suppose you could give me a guess how high the average 660Ti can be pushed? It has been 6-7 years since I messed with overclocking anything, so I am waaaay out of touch.
 
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I am not a god in overclocking either, but as I said overclocking that 660Ti would bring you just under the level of a stock 960.

A factory overclocked 960 will be a little upgrade - less power consumption, more power, new technologies and perks.

If that's an option, I would wait to get GTX 970 or R9 390 OR the new R9 380x that came out recently - again, if you go AMD, you might run into some heat and driver issues as well as noise.

If you could find the same 660 Ti on eBay, you could run the two cards in SLI if your motherboard and PSU support it.
 
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