I just went ahead and got a used 1070 8GB for $200...lol you guys scared me from spending all that cash. I will combine it with my 2 1050 TIs and make it work. Will throw the rest on investing

BUT...still remains the items of me mining Monero. So when comparing mining costs with current market values yes I will probably either break even or lose. But I feel like this will be one of the coins going places and the future market value alone might make it worth it. The difficulty now is 103627596073ish so it should be easier to mine than the ETN I am mining now which is about 4x that.
What exactly happens when and if it forks (aside from making it asic-resistant)? All that really does is slow down the difficulty increasing right? Or will that benefit GPU mining immediately in some way?