Will i7 960 Bottlneck GTX770?

[bluejayek]

I currently have the following setup

i7 960 clocked @ 3.4GHz
ASUS P6T motherboard
ATI radeon 5870
2 x 3 x 2GB OCZ Platinum 1333MHz 7-7-7-20 RAM
Seagate 1TB harddrive, 500GB harddrive
Corsair HX750W Power Supply

Running a single monitor at 1920x1200 resolution.

The fan on my graphics card is completely shot, so I will be replacing the card sometime soon.

I want to know if my CPU will bottleneck the newest generation GPUs such as the GTX770, i.e., will I have to replace my CPU and motherboard as well to get the benefit out of upgrading?

This is primarily a gaming PC. I understand that for other uses the CPU upgrade will be significant, I am mainly interested in the gaming performance for the purposes of this thread.

 

[mrdmatt123]

nope you should be fine

 

[sophiebeth100]

Not at all. These i7s are three generations old, but for the past two generations, the difference between performance in-game hasn't been that big. You should receive no bottleneck at all with that CPU, as it is an excellent one.

 

[mrdmatt123]

Not at all. These i7s are three generations old, but for the past two generations, the difference between performance in-game hasn't been that big. You should receive no bottleneck at all with that CPU, as it is an excellent one.

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