Gtx 780 I7920 @ 4ghz bottleneck question

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I currently have a Gtx 295 and an I7920 and have been playing BF4 pretty solidly on med settings. However being a graphics whore I'd like to play on ultra.
I'd like some thoughts on my cpu being a bottleneck or not if I upgraded to a Gtx 780.
I'll be building a new computer soon and will have a better cpu and gpu, but i'm trying to hold off until the next generation of cards and chips arrive.
 
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lonewolf7
I told you that i7 920 will not bottleneck GTX 780, but that doesn't mean you can play on ultra settings. As you already know BF4 is CPU hungry game. And I am sure that you wont mix i7 920 with i7 4770K.

But 780 is a quite powerful card, so there is a good chance that you can play the game on MAX or ULTRA settings. The card will set the settings by default based on your hardware. Good luck.
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I told you that i7 920 will not bottleneck GTX 780, but that doesn't mean you can play on ultra settings. As you already know BF4 is CPU hungry game. And I am sure that you wont mix i7 920 with i7 4770K.

But 780 is a quite powerful card, so there is a good chance that you can play the game on MAX or ULTRA settings. The card will set the settings by default based on your hardware. Good luck.
 
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I will tell you that going from an i7 920 @ 4GHz to an i7 4770K @ stock 3.5GHz is a very small and insignificant performance increase. I recently upgraded from an i7 920 @4GHZ on an ASUS x58 P6T mobo to a 4770K and really didn't buy me much until I started to OC. I mainly bought it for the SATA3, USB 3, and just a general system refresh. I also saw the 920, mobo, RAM combos were still fetching a decent price on eBay. I got $250 for my set. I am running the same OCed GTX680 from my previous system. You will be perfectly fine. I don't think a 780GTX will exhaust a PCI-E 2.0 X16 bus. A stock 920 @ 2.66 would be a completely different story.
 
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