His motherboard does support c2q and 1333 bus speeds.

Not completely but it will perform better than your current cpu.

I even hate the word "bottleneck," because most people will never see the full potential of their graphics cards

To anyone having my PC specs and that hopefully gets this topic while having bottleneck :x upgrade to some quadcore. Now i have a Q8200. Play Crysis 1024x728 (which is a fine resolution imo) with about 40-50 fps O_O

i played with 20 in my old specs, so im very happy ^^

I'm glad everything worked out for you.

I wasn't trying to pressure you but I knew you wouldn't gain much performance with the CPU pick you had chosen. Thats why I asked, why you hadn't mentioned buying a quad core. I felt if you was going to spend your money, it would have been a waste on another dual core.