Is this Setup Stable for next gen?

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Mobo - P6X58D Premium
Processor - i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz
Graphics Card- EVGA GTX 670 Sig2 FTW
RAM- 12288MB 6x 2048 DDR3-SDRAM (12GB)
PSU- Antec TPQ-1000
Case - CM Storm Scout

I pulled out my old gaming PC and upgraded the graphics card to play the latest games on ultra @1080p

The card is working fine at the moment maxing basically everything i throw at it, i just wondered as the next gen games are more demanding if i could just throw another GTX 670 in an everything will be ok? remember im only at 1080p

Is there any bottlenecks in my system, at the moment i dont really notice any problems, when will i need to upgrade the CPU or anything else?

When is the CPU used at its max?

Im new to PC's so i dont know all that much, what im really asking is with this system and another GTX 670 in SLI, will it work well for ultra next gen games at 1080p?
 
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manofchalk

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The rig is a decent workhorse today, shouldn't have any problems maxing out games with it.
In the future though, I suspect you will become CPU bottlenecked before the GPU is an issue. When you'l have too, its too dependent on your expected standard of gameplay.
 
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Any idea when my CPU will become an issue?
What is the CPU mainly used for in games?
And what sort of things will happen to indicate that I need to upgrade my CPU?

Thanks
 
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g-unit1111

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CPUs don't depreciate in value the way that GPUs do. If you look at the increase in performance over the last few years, Sandy Bridge was a dramatic change in architecture from Nehalem (LGA 1366) and Lynnfield and Clarkdale (LGA 1156). But those CPUs still hold their own in the gaming world. The six year old Phenom II 965 still holds against current Intel i3s. But each generation only brings about a 10% increase in performance over the previous generation, and will continue to do so despite that the number of transistors in a given CPU is exponentially increasing because of Moore's Law.
 
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