Will AMD phenom ii x4 B50 bottleneck GTX 960 4gdr5?

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Chrispywill

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My current specs:

-AMD phenom ii x4 B50 (3.4Ghz) (it was the 3 core version but I unlocked the fourth)
-Radeon HD 5830 Xtreme 1GDR5
-8GB DDR3 RAM
-Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P (rev. 3.1)
-550W PSU

I am planning on buying a gtx 960 4GDR5 But I've done some research and seem like my current CPU would bottleneck the hell out of it.
I wonder if it's even worth buying right now, since I wanna buy an i5-4460 about 2 months later (with a motherboard ofc)
Would I still notice performance improvements with the current CPU or would it possibly get worse, since I read theres a lot of staggering when it bottlenecks?

Also would the i5-4460 bottleneck the gtx 960? (ASUS GeForce GTX960-DC2OC-4GD5-BLACK 4GB to be more exact)
 
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Yes. In some games the Phenom will bottleneck the 960. If the game is CPU dependent you won't notice munch of an improvement, if it's GPU dependent you will see a substantial improvement.

The i5 4460 would be a much better CPU and platform to go with in regards to gaming.
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Yes. In some games the Phenom will bottleneck the 960. If the game is CPU dependent you won't notice munch of an improvement, if it's GPU dependent you will see a substantial improvement.

The i5 4460 would be a much better CPU and platform to go with in regards to gaming.
 
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Going to copy and paste the response I've been dropping in "Will it bottleneck?" threads lately:

It will bottleneck it just as much, and as little as any other video card, because they basically have nothing to do with one another. Your video card determines what graphical settings you can get, while your CPU caps your maximum framerate. The Phenom II is an older CPU, and there are some games that will run poorly on it, but the vast majority should run alright. If you can get decent framerates already, and want a graphical improvement, a new video card will achieve that. If you can't get your framerates high enough now, even with lowering graphical settings, a new video card will not help; that's the CPU's job.
 
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