Will a i7-920 CPU Bottleneck 760/ 760 SLI?

[skept1k]

I'm looking to build a new rig for my girlfriend, in the build I will have the following.

i7-920 2.66ghz
Sabertooth x58 1366
12GB DDR3 OCZ RAM
EVGA 760 GTX (Possibility)

Other specs are unknown currently as I have not crept up on a good deal yet.

Will have a quality Corsair/EVGA/Antec PSU, probably SSD+HDD, Good case, etc.

All I need to know is if the GPU's will be bottlenecked with the i7.

Let me know your thoughts! And to answer any question, yes, I will be overclocking the 920 as far as I can.

 

[IDontUnderstand]

Single GPU, it will not be a bottleneck.
SLI probably will be a bottleneck.

 

[skept1k]

Single GPU, it will not be a bottleneck.
SLI probably will be a bottleneck.

Excellent, that's what I thought as well. Wanted a second opinion in any case. Do you know how much it would need to be overclocked to stabilize the bottleneck for SLI? Around 4+Ghz?

 

[Joseph DeGarmo]

That CPU should not bottleneck a single GTX 760, but at stock speed, will very likely bottleneck two SLI'd GTX 760s or even a single GTX 780. The CPU should be able to handle either 2x GTX 760 SLI or GTX 780 when running at a clock speed of at least 3.2 GHz. But in most games, CPU bottlenecks in your case are not much of an issue. I've only seen my Core i7 950 at stock speed exceed 50% usage in Crysis 3, Far Cry 3, and Battlefield 4. If you do plan to play CPU-intensive games such as the ones listed above, then you will need to overclock the CPU. Other than that, you should get by with a GTX 780 or equivalent when the CPU is not overclocked.