Step-By-Step or overhaul?

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Currently have 3258 clocked to 4 on MSI Z97, R9 270 and 8G ram.
I am always looking at the arguments here and advice and am asking for simple advice.

Before I go headlong into a full upgrade, would this system benefit from a new video card for the short term? The card, of course, would migrate to a new system when I do it. I currently have no major issues and no major problems on world raid bosses at 1080p.

Can’t find time to raid heavy but if I choose to I want to see it in real time.

Thanks for looking,
Dad

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New GPU would be worthwhile, and if you could find a cheap secondhand 4770k/4790k you could stretch it all out for another couple years imo.

But finding one of those chips might be harder than it sounds and I wouldn’t spend more than $100 on it.

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Exactly what I was thinking/hoping.
The cost of 4790K, unless a lucky find, is almost the cost of an overhaul.

Thanks for you opinion.

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Keep in mind a dual core is gonna bottleneck some of the newer AAA games, though. Even WoW now can use a bit more CPU threads than it used to, but it does offload more to the GPU than it did.

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So I opted for a 570 8g card.
Figured not bad at $175 less 10% and $15 rebate.
Also 2 game codes.

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I’m running an 8700K overclocked to 4.5 GHz. and a Radeon R9 290. With a few settings tweaked down, I get 60+ FPS most everywhere.
This site has an excellent graphic settings reference, with visual examples of what each setting does:

I initially set to 10-Ultra, then changed:
Anti Aliasing - FXAA High
Shadow Quality- High
With these two maxed out, I get 25 FPS in my test location, and 62 with them at the above settings. Much cheaper than a new GPU, and no visual difference to me.