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No single GPU will significantly be bottlenecked by an i7 920 at 3Ghz. 2 or more higher end cards would see some bottlenecking.
 
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No. The i7 920 is roughly 10-15% slower than Sandy Bridge clock for clock. Is your 2600K bottlenecking anything? Nope. Neither is mine. LGA 1366 is still quite good.
 
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Not sure about R9 290/GTX780 class of cards but it's not going to be much of a restriction to anything less, so pretty well all of them will perform at their best with that venerable i7.
Top pick for me would be the GTX770 or R9 280X, depending on preferences.
Most people who built systems like that used high end motherboards and those chips usually overclock pretty well, maybe not to the screaming OC Anort has ;) but you'll still be able to get a decent boost by adding a good CPU cooler and pushing towards 4GHz.
And no, modern PCI-E 3.0 cards will not be hurt by the older PCI-E revision of the motherboard.
 
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so, basically what everyone is sayin' here is that what ever CPU you are using in the range of i7 920 to i7 4790k the performance in games is going to be the same (with the same videocard).
Then i dont get what was all the hype going on when Sandy Bridge was released (15% improvement clock for clock some say) and since then intel made 3 new generations of i7's wich all had arround 5-10% performance increase / clock. So i i am going to change the term of "bottleneck" to , "yes, you will have lower FPS" with the same videocard even if you are comparing i7 920 to i5 2500k or nonk.
 
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@ crisan_tiberiu: Not exactly, the newer chips are faster, each generation pushing a bit more each time, so jumping from an i7 920 to a Ivy Bridge CPU of similar clock rate will not be a big one, moving to a Haswell i7 will be, partly because of the improved efficiency and partly due to the much higher base clock.

@ Criso Antonov: Good plan, the GTX760 is good enough to run everything out there at at least high settings decently@1080 rez and a bit more power will help to keep the OC stable.
One point, I'm running an i5 750@3.4GHz and it's not restricting my HD7950 (very similar to the GTX760 in overall performance) at all, even with the card lightly overclocked to 940/1400, so you'll probably not need to push the current CPU too hard.
 
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is the i7 920
EVGA GTX 760
corsair cx 430 any good for that overclock were talking about 3.0 - 3.5 GHz
8 ram
 
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coozie7

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+1 Anort, you'll really need to up the power, a good 520 Watt unit, like those mentioned by i7Baby will run your rig perfectly.
If they are not available in your country Antec, Corsair (not the 'CX' series ;) ), Seasonic, Silverstone (preferably not the 'essentials') FSP (particularly the excellent 'Aurium' series), XFX Pro series, Rosewill (Capstone series) are all good. Modular is nice but not essential.
Be aware, you'll need to improve the CPU cooler if it's a stock Intel item and good intake fans in the front of the case will greatly help with cooling of the entire system, if the case front has built in filters the Corsair SP120 High Static Pressure High Performance (1350 RPM) fans are both quiet and effective.
 
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