CPU's are more than fast enough to keep up. You are still using i7 950 that's a platform that was released in 2009 and its now 2014. CPU's may not have come a very long way, but the upgrade path is still there. I recently went from an i7 960 D0 @ 4.2GHz 12GB 1600MHz memory to my current i7 4770K @ 4.5GHz and 16GB 1866MHz memory. I have seen a pretty nice improvement in performance, at least 30-40%. Not so much in terms of maximum fps but 100% in minimum fps. Borderlands 2 maxed out dropped to around 55fps 1080p now I barely drop below 70fps using the same GPU. That is just one example. If you really want to go SLI or Crossfire, to make the most out of it, you really need to go X79 and the enthusiast platform not the Z87 mainstream platform even though the 4770K and other Haswell chips when overclocked are more than capable of running multiple GPU's.

Hopefully the 870 will be worth it and reasonably priced.... but it's nvidia, so it wont be 🙂

I know that my CPU is old, but I still intend to keep it for a long while. The new CPUs still aren't fast enough to be worth the upgrade IMO. About twice the performance would now cost about twice as much as what I paid for my CPU several years ago. Even if I bought a 1000$ CPU now I'd still be very underwhelmed. I'd like to see something significantly better soon, so that having 120 Hz screens and such actually matter more. In several recent games it's hard to get even a constant 60 fps because the CPU can't keep up with everything else judging by benchmarks and what not. It's not like the typical CPU intensive stuff in games is impressive these days anyway, so essentially you'll see a little over 60 fps even though nothing impressive is going on. SLI is now only useful for high resolutions.

Keep your 950, its fine for gaming,as long as the cpu does not bottleneck your gpu then your good to go for gaming. Tbh even though i have a 4930 its no different in gaming to what my 930 was and anybody that tells you any different is just trying to justify there purchase. That is the truth of it with no BS.

I see no difference in the games ive been playing, i still get the same fps. I see no performance increase regarding gaming. I don't care what graphs or charts that you throw up cause ive seen it with my own eyes. X58 is still a great gaming platform and there is no need to move from it unless your cpu is hitting the oc threshold and causing bottleneck on your card(s). There will be a time were 4ghz ain't enough but atm its ok. Ive seen this through my owns eyes and that is what counts for me. My own experience and not somebody elses. I was on x58 for 6 years, i know that architecture better than anyone and if it wasn't for this golden batch 4930 id still be on x58 right now. My gpu smashes all other nvidia cards for performance so cpu is really irrelavent unless your under 4ghz on a quad and even though 3.8 is enough to eliminate bottleneck. Even if there is a 10% increase is it worth spending all that money for 10%, no it isn't so my point still stands in my previous post. There will be a time to upgrade from x58 for gaming but atm to those people wondering i really wouldnt bother. Stick with what you have for now, its good enough aslong as you have a decent card.

I see no difference in the games ive been playing, i still get the same fps. I see no performance increase regarding gaming. I don't care what graphs or charts that you throw up cause ive seen it with my own eyes. X58 is still a great gaming platform and there is no need to move from it unless your cpu is hitting the oc threshold and causing bottleneck on your card(s). There will be a time were 4ghz ain't enough but atm its ok. Ive seen this through my owns eyes and that is what counts for me. My own experience and not somebody elses. I was on x58 for 6 years, i know that architecture better than anyone and if it wasn't for this golden batch 4930 id still be on x58 right now. My gpu smashes all other nvidia cards for performance so cpu is really irrelavent unless your under 4ghz on a quad and even though 3.8 is enough to eliminate bottleneck. Even if there is a 10% increase is it worth spending all that money for 10%, no it isn't so my point still stands in my previous post. There will be a time to upgrade from x58 for gaming but atm to those people wondering i really wouldnt bother. Stick with what you have for now, its good enough aslong as you have a decent card.

Next big jump in performance will be Intel's proper 8 core cpu's until then I''ll just stick with my 2500k.

Because it won't scale up as well with next generation games and resolutions. Not everyone upgrades every series. Watchdogs is like a perfect example of developers not giving a **** because they have 6+GB of ram available on consoles. Once games that actually utilize that 6GB of ram start popping up with unnecessarily large texture sizes that 256bit bus is going to **** the bed.

If DX12 gets adopted fast, I wonder for how many years extra Sandy Bridge will last. Mantle support for BF4 did wonders for old/slow CPUs like the Core 2 Quads and Phenom X4s

You will bet a boost oc that monster cpu. But I agree x58 at 4ghz is good enough atm unlessl your running 3 or 4 ultra high end gpus. You probable would get a boost upgrading an x58 cpu with 2 cards 780ti titan 290 290x but I wouldn't expect miracles.

Is this gonna be another 680 type mid range released at a high range price?