GPU Bottlenecking Potential?

[ThePromise]

I am currently using an Intel i7 950 stock clocked a 3.07GHz and I am in the market for a new GPU. Right now I'm using a GTX 570 and I'm fairly sure I'm 100% fine in the bottlenecking department.

Does anyone have any thoughts as to how high I could go in terms of Nvidia GPUs before I would need to upgrade my CPU due to bottlenecking? I'm hoping to go up to a 770.

Input?

 

[nostall]

A 770 should work just fine; there is still some performance and life left in the CPU. I don't think the CPU will bottleneck that card, but if you think it might then consider a mild overclock of the CPU.

 

[jrgray93]

Agreed with nostall. That CPU should be about on par with an AMD FX-8350 in most lightly threaded applications. It might be a bottleneck here and there, but it won't be a problem most of the time. That said, I'd look into a CPU next time if you ever feel like upgrading again.

 

[ThePromise]

Thanks for the help. I'm probably going to rebuild the whole thing before too long, so in the meantime I'll just overclock the CPU. I've never had even the smallest problem with temps on that thing, even with the stock cooler.

 

[jrgray93]

Sounds like fun!