CPU bottleneck?

[MartinEyefinity]

A few years ago the i5-750 with an HD5850 was a great value for money gaming PC. I'm still using that right now. In the meanwhile I switched my 20 inch monitor for 3x24'' with 1920x1200 resolution each to run it in Eyefinity. Now my HD5850 with only 1GB of RAM is struggling to play BF3 in eyefinity at this insane resolution. I have to put it on the lowest of the lowest to play it, and even then I sometimes get major FPS drops for a few seconds.

I was thinking about waiting for the 8000 series from ATI, and get one of the best ones, the 8950 for example. If it's really a rebrand with maybe a higher frequency and therefor not such great improvement, while the 7xxx series dropping in price significantly (because a new series came out) I will probably get a 7970 or 7950 then. Either way...

Do you think my quadcore, i5-750 clocked to 3.2ghz CPU will bottleneck the system a lot then? (My motherboard is an Asus P7p55e-pro, and I have 12 gb of high performance RAM (CL7 latency, I could look up more details if required)

Thanks in advance!

- Martin

[Kruziik_Kel]

Core 2 Quad still does not bottleneck modern GPUs. also worth noting no 8000 series until Q4 this year