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2015/07/01 14:54:09 (permalink)
My current setup is in my my modrigs profile. It's been going strong since 2010. Thinking about upgrading to a 980ti,. Will My CPU be a bottleneck at all???
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    Viper453
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    Re: Thinking of going for a GTX 980ti soon....but worried about my other hardware... 2015/07/01 16:50:55 (permalink)
    On a first gen i7 it could if not over 4 ghz i think.

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    Re: Thinking of going for a GTX 980ti soon....but worried about my other hardware... 2015/07/01 18:52:14 (permalink)
    What would you define as a bottleneck? Example is that if you have a system from 2010 then it's not pcie gen 3 since that wasn't even on boards at that point in time. There are people that say that even modern cards don't saturate a gen2 bus but I can definitely say I saw a difference in benchmarks between pre-nVidia reg fix and post reg fix. Couldn't tell anything in games though but given that there is a measured difference, even that can be perceived as a bottleneck.
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    Re: Thinking of going for a GTX 980ti soon....but worried about my other hardware... 2015/07/01 20:00:59 (permalink) ☼ Best Answerby therealbigsteve 2015/07/02 06:46:23
    You're good if the game relies on the GPU.  I'm running an i7-950 with a 970.  If it means anything to you, if you look at firestrike scores, there isn't much difference in scores when comparing x58 to newer i7s with the same GPU.


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    Re: Thinking of going for a GTX 980ti soon....but worried about my other hardware... 2015/07/01 20:16:25 (permalink)
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    My current setup is in my my modrigs profile. It's been going strong since 2010. Thinking about upgrading to a 980ti,. Will My CPU be a bottleneck at all???


    Shader caching pretty much eliminated bottlenecks for me. I am running a 4930K with stock clocks and a 980Ti. Some older games will hit a wall, like BFBC2, however they still run at over 100 FPS... So, it really doesn't matter. EDIT: I7 950 will probably still bottleneck though... I don't know for sure though. I do know that shader caching significantly reduced CPU bottlenecks for me. 
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    Re: Thinking of going for a GTX 980ti soon....but worried about my other hardware... 2015/07/02 06:47:18 (permalink)
    Thanks everyone. I'm gonna pull the trigger soon on the gpu. I'll probably upgrade the mobo and cpu in another two years.
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