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Originally Posted by clozak
Well, I was looking more into software that analyzes your CPU and sees if the GPU is being bottle necked by it.
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There is no such software. The only way to tell if the GPU is being "bottlenecked" by the CPU is to overclock the CPU by a bit. If your 3D performance rises by a considerable amount, it means that your CPU limits the 3D performance of your system.
In answer to your question, I do believe that you should drop the FX-60 completely if you plan on getting a next generation high end card. Even a 100$ modern CPU will be considerably faster. Getting a high end card alone is not a good idea, it is better to buy a mid-range card but also get a new DDR2 based system with an E6XXX/E8XXX CPU and 4GBs of DDR2 RAM.
While I don't agree with Kris that the FX-60 is already a bottleneck, I also believe that you could spend the 500$ much better than placing them on an AGP based system. Even a E4600, 2GBs DDR-2, a cheap P35 based motherboard and a PCIe 3850 would be faster than the FX-60 based system and they would cost as much, if not less, plus they would give you much better upgrade potential for the future.