Gtx 560ti Phenom 9550 bottleneck?

[kilohawk]

hi!
im trying to play the new games on my PC, and some older ones too (black ops/F12011 and old racing/FPS)
but the PC is struggling with them, im not blessed with mountains of cash so major upgrades (much needed I know) are not on the cards, however im looking to upgarde the GPU to increase in game performance, and have almost settled on this
will there be any point on getting this and not a lesser card? will other components just restrict the GPU? and are there better (Nvidia) alternatives?

 

[FlintIronStagg]

post your full system specs pls.
2.2ghz on a phenom will bottleneck that card, but you should still be able to run it if this is the best upgrade right now for your system, but without specs listed, then we wont have much to go on cept your cpu. also pls post resolution you want to game at

 

[kilohawk]

hi thanks for replying ,
my specs are;
ASUS Crosshair ROG MB
9550 phenom @ 2.4 gHz (no voltage changes)
4GB kingston 800mhz RAM
640 GB Caviar Black
780watt Generic PSU
9800GT 1GB (was sli but one died )
I use a resolution of 1440x900 @ 75hz

 

[kilohawk]

oh and im on win7 professional x64

 

[Mousemonkey]

This topic has been moved from the section CPU & Components to section Graphics & Displays by Mousemonkey

 

[FlintIronStagg]

if you want to get the cheapest possible upgrade, and since that psu although generic, has worked out for you so far, then i would recommend
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500202
or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150564
at your resolution you should be able to play everything very well on either of those cards, and be pretty well balanced on your system.