Best GPU for Phenom II X4 955 Black

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Maugrimm

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Basically do I have to worry about my CPU bottlenecking a graphics card if I upgrade and if it will bottleneck some cards what is the best I could upgrade too with wasting much money on performance I would never see.

Tried to ask elsewhere and well advising one to buy a new mobo, cpu and gpu just isn't helpful when one has a budget ;)

I'd like to run DA: Inquisition plus a lot of other games coming out on as high as settings as possible given my hardware.
 
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You willing to overclock? Then I would say HD7950 for around $200. I had a 955BE matched with HD7850 and got a nice gain running the CPU @ 3.6GHz.
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Conrad440

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A 650ti would be as "high end" as I would go with that processor. I have a 940 BE pared with a 560ti, most of the bottle necks I see are on the CPU.

If you don't need an immediate upgrade I might wait until they come out with a 700 series equivalent, or whatever AMD has coming down the pipe as you may be able to get a better graphics card for around the same money.
 
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Maugrimm

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Thanks for the answers so far. I am willing to do some "safe" overclocking after I've done some reading, especially since I've never pushed it and have always had good temps and such when I check so I think there is a safe overhead there that I haven't come close to pushing (if it's not obvious enough I know just enough to get me into trouble with computers as they like to say) As for the date of purchase it could be anywhere between next week and a couple of months down the road, kinda depends on whether a car get sold quickly and/or when I save up the monies but hopefully soon.

Now lets say even if I got a more powerful card, say because it was a good deal or maybe with just an eye to the future would having the bigger card lead to a worse performance or would it's power just be wasted?
 
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bentremblay

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That's so nice to hear!
I'm looking at my nice old box, with 7870, plenty big PSU (750W, yaa?), 8Gig DDR3, running Win7 64 ... and a dear, venerably old Athlon II 630 humming along at 3.5GHz.
And yes, darned rights the CPU is bottleneck. But the lovely MoBo is AM3. So I'm kinda cornered.

After looking around, I fgured Phenom II 955 ...
... and lookie here! You do too!

real happy to read this thread
thanks
--@bentrem
 
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