Will it bottleneck?

[Aluminia]

Hello,

 

I am genuinely worried that I'm going to bottleneck my graphics card so it won't perform to it's fullest potential. I am planning to replace my old GTX 550 Ti 1 GB card with a GTX 760 4 GB (most likely to get that) or a R9 280X 3 GB. I do not have enough money to upgrade my processor right now, so I'm worried that my cpu is going to be behind the gpu. I am planning to get a i7-3770K.

 

Here are my current specs, btw my PC was prebuilt, but I have modified it overtime;

 

Intel Quad Core i5-2300 @ 2.80GHz, 3.2 Turbo

Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x 4GB) Red RAM @ 1866MHz (Just Bought)

EVGA 151-IB-E699-RX LGA 1155 Motherboard (Just Bought)

EVGA GTX 550 Ti 1GB GDDR5 192bit Superclocked

Windows 64 bit blah blah

Seagate 1 TB HDD @ 7200 rpm

Cooler Master V700 PSU (Just Bought)

Corsair Obsidian 750D Case (Just Bought)

 

I have ordered a new motherboard, psu, RAM, and case for Christmas (Already installed, works fine)

 

So, I'm planning to replace my 550 ti with a GTX 760 or R9 280X but I'm worried it will bottleneck my old i5-2300. What do you think? Would it bottleneck? Thanks.

[MbV93]

It'll be ok. Quad core i5 is more than enough, it's not the best i5 of course but it'll handle the card perfectly while you get a CPU upgrade, it's not urgent at all.

[JoshM]

It will not bottleneck 

[CoolBeans]

It is fine

[spartin503]

The only time you will see better performance from a better CPU is when your play physically intence gamesor games with tons of AI processing, like Civ V, but that would only be inbetween turns.

[orangecat]

Any i5 and maybe a i3 should be able to handle that card.