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Deaddz
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So I currently have a GTX 760 and an A10 6800k.

I want to get an i7.

But I found a 7970 gpu for $194.

Should I save money and just get the 7970? I figured since it's AMD I'll only get a 
10 frame bottleneck tops. How much of a bottleneck will I notice?

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get an i5 and a 7970, Ghz edition if possible, really powerful card

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A 7970 would not be bottlenecked pretty much at all.

Why do you need the i7? If you actually need the extra compute performance it should have the priority over the gpu, as a 760 is already very good. If you don't and plan on playing at higher resolutions, sell the 760 and get the 7970. If you don't really need the i7 and you only play at 1080p I say wait and upgrade in a couple of years instead.

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Get the CPU.

 

@Lanoi can tell you that his GPU is bottlenecking his CPU, and his GPU is less powerful than yours. Go i5/i7 first, then GPU.

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"Bottleneck" is a stupid term

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get an i5 and stay with the 760. 760 to 7970 isnt THAT much of an upgrade. better wait for 800 series or so.

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There's no such thing as a bottleneck. A CPU does not bottleneck a GPU. That's not how it works. What you call a bottleneck is the result of trying to play a game that your CPU isn't fast enough to run. If your GPU is also too weak for that application to the extent that you don't notice, that's not a "balanced" system, that's an failure all round. You should match your hardware to the things you want to use it for and not to eachother. If you play RPGs and such with lots of things going on at once and require a strong CPU (and have stupid things like using the CPU to process shadows), then get a faster CPU. If you're playing games like Tomb Raider which is very visually pretty but not demanding CPU wise then you don't need something so great, and spend the money you saved on a better GPU which will actually benefit in this case.

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Get the CPU.

 

@Lanoi can tell you that his GPU is bottlenecking his CPU, and his GPU is less powerful than yours. Go i5/i7 first, then GPU.

i agree, on getting the CPU first but an i5, because the 760 is still no slag

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wow cpu performance has been slow to increase over the past 3 yrs, sandy, and especially ivybridge are with in a few percent of the top end haswell and ivy even scoring above several times.

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