Best GPU that won't be bottlenecked by an i7 920

[Aphexxis]

Just now, Phate.exe said:

Well aware, and I never said they were equal clock-for-clock.  Calm your tits.

 

I have a similarly-old chip (arguably AMD's last remotely-competitive chip until recently), that runs at a higher speed stock, and I currently have overclocked a fair bit.  His 920 is stock.

 

Stock, both his CPU and mine are somewhere around a 435 in Cinebench R15.  With the overclock I run for gaming, mine is around 560-570.

 

I'd call them fairly comparable, especially in the sense that OP's bottleneck will largely go away with a CPU overclock, and that there really isn't much use in buying a newer GPU aside from power consumption, since the 920 is already bottlenecking their current card.

Oh at stock, i am sorry.

 

Phenom is still a cool CPU though, could tinker a lot with one of those