Upgrading Gfx Card, can my board keep up?

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All,

I'd like to upgrade my current GTX 460 1 GB to a GTX 770 2GB. Leaning towards the MSI branded card at the moment.

The rest of my system will remain dated- my board is an EVGA P55 SLI (no plans to SLI a 770), and an i5 750 OC'ed to 4.2

I haven't kept up with tech over the past couple of years- is this a worthwhile buy for me, or will I miss out on some of the nice stuff in a new, beefy GPU due to having a board that doesn't offer enough on the PCI, SATA, or something like that? I know I'm RAM/GPU bottlenecked at the moment, but don't want to end up having a situation where running a top of the line GPU on an old board holds it back significantly either.

Thanks!
 
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I actually suspect you'll be quite fine. You should probably wait with upgrading your CPU until after Haswell I'm thinking.
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I agree, you should be fine on the graphics upgrade. I wouldn't worry about waiting for Haswell since the 770 should have a long life expectancy of at least 3 to 5 years and should be compatible with whatever you upgrade to in the years to follow as long as they don't change the PCI-Express slot. You didn't say how much memory you have but if you have 4GB or less, my advice would be to upgrade while memory is on the cheap.
 
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Currently at 4GB, though I 100% plan to buy 2 new sticks @ 2x4 when I upgrade my card. I don't think I'm CPU bottlenecked on anything- its a gaming upgrade. I'm starting to need to back some games down to High in order to keep up the frame rate ( FF XIV Beta atm, and quite excited for the release)- so I'd like to take the plunge on a new card and RAM without updating my board/cpu.

I had kind of planned to do it this way anyways- and bought a nice XFX 750W (Gold or Silver Rated) Power Supply which was way nicer than my current components needed, so I should have plenty of overhead.

 
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