i7 950, time for an upgrade?

[Drojman]

Hi all,

I currently have an i7 950 3GHZ in my PC, OC'd to 3.7. I'm wondering if it's now time to upgrade, my performance in some games is not what I'd like, (Far Cry 3, Watch_Dogs, Wolfenstein etc) If so what would be a good jump?

For reference the rest of my PC is:

Rampage II Extreme Motherboard
12GB 1600mhz RAM
2x 7970 3GBs
1TB HDD
60 GB SSD
Window 8.1

Is it my processor holding me back?

 

[Drojman]

I've tried but anything past 3.7 seems to make it very unstable.

I thought the GPUs should be enough, but I recall people saying games like Far Cry 3 and Asssassin's Creed 3 are quite CPU bound, making me think it was down to my CPU.