What will bottleneck an OCed 955?

[vilenjan]

My brother is running an OCed Phenom II 955 at 3.8 Ghz. Currently he is using a 6850. Will a 7850 be bottleneck by the cpu in any way?

 

[thently]

No I had a 1090t @ 3.8 and a 670GTX and had no bottle at all so he is good to go.

Thent

 

[maxh22]

My brother is running an OCed Phenom II 955 at 3.8 Ghz. Currently he is using a 6850. Will a 7850 be bottleneck by the cpu in any way?

Nope hes good for now anything higher than like a 7870 would bottleneck

 

[disolitude]

Depends on game.

Some CPU intensive games would suffer with the Phenom II (Guild Wars 2 on max settings for example).

Others like Battlefield 3 won't bottleneck even with a GTX680/HD 7970.