can a first gen i3 (540) carry an hd 7950 for the next year?

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I am very short on cash, but I found a great deal on an hd 7950 for where I live. (don't offer me websites with prices, etc' , I don't live in the US) I was about to get an i5 + a motherboard , but My current GPU (the hd 6850) is struggling with 1080p.
So here's my question, will the i3 540 be good enough for a year? 40-60+ fps would be nice.

Thanks, and cheers. ;)
 
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The soonest I'll get the money is in November, which is almost a whole year.
I wanted to go for a cheap amd option, but for some reason the retailers don't have the athlon x4 750k.
 
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I realise that, but as of now the hd 6850 drops to unplayable framerates under 1080p, I'm hoping the hd 7950 can sustain the same/higher framerates under 1080p, assuming the cpu really is the bottleneck for the hd 7950, if I get 60 fps on a game at 1366 x 768 with the 6850 and it drops to 20-30 in 1080p that means the gpu is holding me back from playing on 1080p, right?

so pretty much any game I wish to bump up to 1080p now should benefit from the 7950, right?

also I wanted to use graphical mods in skyrim, I believe skyrim only uses 2 cores, correct?

I hope you understood my little brain storm.

And yes, that i3 540 makes me cry every time I play a game and get 40 fps, and I force AA to x8 and lose no frames. (Looking at you NFS Hot pursuit)
 
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