I'm running a Core i7-920 Air cooled, overclocked to 4.1 Ghz base clock with a Zotac Geforce GTX 970 Amp! extreme edition card with an automatic overclock... How bad am I bottle-necking. I use it for quite a few things including <content removed> video gaming, subtitle rendering (using a gpu accelerated renderer I'm developing), video framerate upconversion, programming and general computing.