Xeon e5450 GPU Bottlneck

[shockkid14]

My gtx 960 just died, so i'm looking to upgrade to a gtx 970 or a cheap gtx 1060.

My current rig is running a xeon e5450 @3ghz with the lga 775 mod. I have 8gb of ram down-sped to 1333ghz, because of my outdated mobo.

I'm not sure if either of these cards would cause bad bottlenecks or not while running games like GTAV, No Man's Sky or Overwatch.

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

It will bottleneck badly, but if you get a nice gpu now, you can use the full power of it later when you get a faster cpu.

[SLAYR]

They will bottleneck pretty bad, even the 960 was most likely bottlenecked by that cpu, an i3 6100, or fx 6300 would be the minimum to handle those cards.

[shockkid14]

I'm actually about to pick up a gtx 970 that was used for two days for $175, I can't pass that up. i have a am3+ mobo lying around, so maybe i'll score a FX 8350 soon.