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I am an amateur computer builder. I have built my very own system awhile back, runs great. But now, being the season of savings. I was looking to upgrade.

I have currently a Phenom X4 965 BE paired with my EVGA Gtx 650 ti.
Now, I was looking at Gtx 760 but i would think that would be bottlenecked by my current CPU.

So my question is, should I get an FX 8350 first or the 760?

My CPU is stock speeds btw.. Thought about overclocking and have in the past, from 3.4ghz to 4.2 but I don't feel safe with that even with 35c @ 4.2 (on air). Just never liked pushing my system due to the fact that something may go wrong and I'm a broke as hell college student.
 
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A Phenom II X4 965 will indeed bottle neck a GTX 760, but not enough to be a deal breaker. You will see an improvement in frame rate over the GTX 650ti. How much depends on whether the games are CPU or GPU intensive and whether or not you play online on heavily crowded servers. If you are on a 64 player server for instance, the CPU will be the bottle neck, not the gfx card.

Btw, If you were able to maintain 35C at 4.2GHZ on air, you have one cool running Phenom II X4.
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You will not bottleneck at all. It is a quad core CPU, and as well as that it takes a lot to bottleneck a CPU since they aren't overly important in games anymore. You may want to consider upgrading in the near future though to an Intel Core i5, i7 or an AMD FX hexacore. Hope this helped.
 
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A Phenom II X4 965 will indeed bottle neck a GTX 760, but not enough to be a deal breaker. You will see an improvement in frame rate over the GTX 650ti. How much depends on whether the games are CPU or GPU intensive and whether or not you play online on heavily crowded servers. If you are on a 64 player server for instance, the CPU will be the bottle neck, not the gfx card.

Btw, If you were able to maintain 35C at 4.2GHZ on air, you have one cool running Phenom II X4.
 
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Then there should be no reason not to O/C the Phenom II X4. As long as you don't take the voltage higher than specs (just up the multiplier), it won't hurt it a bit. You seem to have the temp handled good.
 
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I've run several PhII X4 965BEs, and they all were able to get 4GHZ on just a multi increase alone. (well, most were) If you are worried about frying the CPU, just leave the voltage at stock and get what you can out of the multi alone. It will be better than stock.
 
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