You absolutely can do modern gaming on it. I literally have 2 friends in our gaming group that are still rocking 970 in their desktops. They have had to replac

You absolutely can do modern gaming on it. I literally have 2 friends in our gaming group that are still rocking 970 in their desktops. They have had to replace the fans on the graphics card a few times and a repaste but other than that they are chugging away. Also solid lol on "frame generation". Marketing fluff/features like that only exists but because they have run out of real generational performance gains to sell cards with.