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I have a FX 8150 and have ordered an MSI GTX 970. Would it bottleneck the GPU at all? Looking to upgrade but don't really have much money to spend on a new CPU.
 
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Unless you already have an R9 270X / GTX 760 or higher card, you will notice a much bigger difference in games from the GTX 970 than any CPU upgrade. I would recommend you buy this card.

When you want to upgrade your CPU, motherboard and RAM, at the moment I would commend the Core i5 4460, 4590, 4690 or 4690K. With the K CPU you would want a Z97 motherboard to allow overclocking or for the others a H97 motherboard or a B85 motherboard that supports Haswell Refresh CPUs without a BIOS update. Broadwell is expected Q3 next year if you haven't bought something by then.
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There is never any harm in buying a graphics card that will be "bottlenecked" by your CPU.
At worst, you are getting the same performance as a slower graphics that you could have bought.
Generally though, the better graphics card allows higher detail settings while your frame rate is still limited by the CPU.

FX-8150 isn't so bad anyway. Noticeably slower than a Core i5, but still managing well over 60 FPS in World Of Warcraft, which is notoriously CPU bound:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8150-zambezi-bulldozer-990fx,3043-20.html
 
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As in really hot! Like the devil himself was cooking it!
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Unless you already have an R9 270X / GTX 760 or higher card, you will notice a much bigger difference in games from the GTX 970 than any CPU upgrade. I would recommend you buy this card.

When you want to upgrade your CPU, motherboard and RAM, at the moment I would commend the Core i5 4460, 4590, 4690 or 4690K. With the K CPU you would want a Z97 motherboard to allow overclocking or for the others a H97 motherboard or a B85 motherboard that supports Haswell Refresh CPUs without a BIOS update. Broadwell is expected Q3 next year if you haven't bought something by then.
 
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I'm a full time student atm so I don't have a lot of money to spend on an upgrade. I'm hoping that by next summer, I will have a job and since we should since Broadwell sometime next year, it's probably best to wait until then rather than rush a Haswell right now. I don't really have any problems with my current build right now, but i've never had a card like the 970 before, so hopefully no problems when it ships.
 
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VincentP

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The card should be great.
We haven't mentioned this before, but you should be using a quality power supply rated at least 430W, with a combined +12V rail rating of at least 35A.
 
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This one ok?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151095&cm_re=seasonic-_-17-151-095-_-Product

It's the one I am currently using.

 
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Absolutely. This is a great quality supply with plenty of power for your system.
 
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