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I am looking to upgrade my old and not vegry ood graphics card (i have the geforce gt 630). I want to play games like battlefield 3 at at least 60 fps on ultra and crysis 3 at very high maybe at about 30 fps. I play at a resolution of 1680x1050. Thanks for the help :) Im also on a very tight budget as im willing to spend around 250 dollars so keep that in mind.
 
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Okay let me try and clear some stuff up for you OP. People really over react when their CPU isn't fast enough for their GPU (bottlenecking), but the truth is something is always going to be the bottle neck in your system and what component is holding you back will vary depending on what game your playing.
Now a Core 2 will cause a bottleneck with a 760 on games that use the CPU more. On most games your not going to see hardly any reduction of your GPU's performance, only on the most CPU intensive games.
A 7750 is a good card if you on a budget, if you have money to spend, spending more will give you much better results. Right now a 760 is the best card in the $200-$300 dollar range, partly because it's brand new.

Get a 760, your Core 2...
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i have a 750 watt antec psu and a core 2 duo e8400 @ 3.0 GHz. I"m guessing ill have to upgrade the cpu am right?
 
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well i am saying if i get a graphics card as good as the gtx 760 then wouldnt the cpu bottleneck it?
 
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Yes. But bottlenecks arent really a huge deal. Everyone seems to think they are, but its just the point where one needs to turn down the graphics a little. I would get the card first and see if you need an upgraded platform (CPU/RAM/etc)

Also, what power supply are you running?
 
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i have a 750 watt antec psu
 
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Okay let me try and clear some stuff up for you OP. People really over react when their CPU isn't fast enough for their GPU (bottlenecking), but the truth is something is always going to be the bottle neck in your system and what component is holding you back will vary depending on what game your playing.
Now a Core 2 will cause a bottleneck with a 760 on games that use the CPU more. On most games your not going to see hardly any reduction of your GPU's performance, only on the most CPU intensive games.
A 7750 is a good card if you on a budget, if you have money to spend, spending more will give you much better results. Right now a 760 is the best card in the $200-$300 dollar range, partly because it's brand new.

Get a 760, your Core 2 is going to handle if fine in most cases, when you want to upgrade your CPU you'll want to step up to the 1150 platform anyway, meaning a new board as well.
 
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This. This is very true. People really do overreact on these bottlenecks.

 
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thank you very much i really appreciate it :)
 
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