i7 950 still relevant for gaming?

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Hey all,

I have been riding my i7 950 for 3 years now and she hasn't disappointed me yet. I just bought a new GPU (should arrive in the mail today) and was wondering if I would be bottle-necked by my CPU. I tried searching for some recent relevant i7 950 gaming benchmarks with current gen GPUs to no avail. I game at 2500 x 1600 and system specs will be as follows after I install the new GPU:

12GB Ram
i7 950 OC to 3.9GHz
Asus Rampage III Gene mobo
Radeon R9-295X2

I appreciate your insight,

Tony

 
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I just got rid of my i7 860 (OC @ 3.6), with a GTX 770 it ran quite a lot of new games in ultra with v-sync @ 60 FPS. Alien: Isolation being the newest, if I didn't need more powah for rendering I'd have kept it. What bottle necks will probably be ram and disk, but 12 gigs should be ample for all games.
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I just got rid of my i7 860 (OC @ 3.6), with a GTX 770 it ran quite a lot of new games in ultra with v-sync @ 60 FPS. Alien: Isolation being the newest, if I didn't need more powah for rendering I'd have kept it. What bottle necks will probably be ram and disk, but 12 gigs should be ample for all games.
 
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I was just checking out potential upgrade paths while remaining on the X58 platform and saw I could get a Xeon W3690 for ~$300. This would enable me to use the full 6.4 GT/s system bus rather than the 4.8 with the 950. Any input on whether this would be a worthwhile upgrade or should I just stick with the 950 until I upgrade my whole rig?

 
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