Time to upgrade i7-920?

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So.. I've owned this current setup for a little over 4 year years now, and I'm considering an upgrade. I have an i7-920 OC to 3.8, HD 5870, and 6gb ram.

I only use this PC for gaming on a single monitor at 1080p.

I'm wondering if I can get away with just upgrading the GPU for the time being to something along the lines of a GTX 770 or 780, but concerned that my i7-920 might be a bottleneck?

Should I just scrap the i7-920 system and move up to an i5-4690k?
 
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Any gen i7 will not bottleneck a single GPU even of the newest generation. When you start doing 3-4 GPU is when you might want something with more memory bandwidth like LGA 2011. I'd get the 770 if I were you. Partpicker will have a list of the cheapest ones. My friend gets ultra 60 fps with his 770.
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Any gen i7 will not bottleneck a single GPU even of the newest generation. When you start doing 3-4 GPU is when you might want something with more memory bandwidth like LGA 2011. I'd get the 770 if I were you. Partpicker will have a list of the cheapest ones. My friend gets ultra 60 fps with his 770.
 
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you will be fine my 780 gtx and 960 at 4.0g was no problem at all but to good a deal came up on the 980x. no bottle neck just make sure you do the core unparking and it will get a small boost. the performance increase from a new cpu will small the best bet is gpu. there are no chips out yet that will destroy that cpu i would stay with it for atleast another year maybe even 2
 
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