There's a lot of 4090 owners around these enthusiast boards, so I felt the need to shout out my RTX 2070. You're still enough for me, honey.
I did have to capitulate with my CPU though. Upgrading from a 3rd Gen i7 to a 12th Gen i3 more than doubled my framerate in Cyberpunk 2077. Even with "next-gen" finally arriving, kind of, my 2070 has been plenty for my standards. Even games I thought might give my system a lot of trouble, like Remnant 2, ran surprisingly well. That Ultra, High and Medium settings in game effects often look interchangeable in motion, when you're not scrutinizing the image at a stand-still, helps keep my system "alive and well". DLSS really extended the life of my card too, so I'm extra glad I didn't stay on my GTX 970.
At the time, upgrading to a 2070 was "stupid" because the 200o series was considered overpriced. I only did it because I felt a whim to upgrade from 1080p to 1440p. Grabbed a better card to drive that resolution bump. That bump also extended the life of my old CPU by moving more responsibility to the GPU. Then, the pandemic price increases and Nvidia's price gouging happened.
The moral of the story is that sometimes your poor decisions turn out to be pretty good ones because the world became worse in the meantime. Look, I didn't say it was a happy moral.