[US] Looking to play FarCry3 and/or PlanetSide2 with AMD Phenom 9600 (quad-core), possible?

2.3 GHz model, 4 gigs of ram, and I just purchased a geforce gtx 550 ti (fermi). I realize my processor is pretty outdated, however, I just am not 100% sure how much my processor is bottlenecking my system for these games. I plan on upgrading soon to the i7 series however, the magical thing called money is stopping me. Anyone think that setup should run it around 30 fps on medium/high for planetside2?