Hello cool people of Guru3d. I've got a couple of questions I hope your great minds can assist me with. Currently I have the following computer specs: ASUS P6T Deluxe V2, X58, Socket-1366 Intel Core i7 Quad Processor i7-920 XFX Radeon HD 5870 Corsair Powersupply TX 850W Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600MHz 6GB CL9 My question is now, I was planing on purchasing a couple of upgrades for my computer. I was thinking of buying the following to begin with, this month: Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600MHz 12GB CL9 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 3072MB PhysX Which leads me to my next question, will my current hardware by any way bottleneck the graphic card? And this might be a bit off topic, but the ram I'm buying, will I be able to support it? I'm a complete computer newb! Also if you have recommendations for any other graphic cards within the price range of the 580, feel free to suggest it. Thanks in advance!
Thats not a question AFAIK. But no, you will not have a bottleneck Also, maybe this ram will be cheaper than the corsair. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231358
not very much. get a coolermaster 212+ good and cheap. 1366 chips run hotter than sandybridge you should be looking at 3.6ghz or so
To be honest, neither the extra RAM, nor the video card is a worthy purchase. I'll start with the RAM. 12 GB would be nice, only if your system was making any use of it. Unfortunately for high-end PC owners, the vast majority of software today is still 32-bit and cannot use more than 2GB of the RAM. The video card. The GTX 580 is a solid 30% faster that the 5870, but less than a handful of games (I can think of only 3 actually: Crysis, Metro 2033 and upcoming Battlefield 3) tax the card enough to make you see any difference in typical resolutions. It does not offer newer DIRECTX technology and it is already 1 year old, with the next GPU lineup on the horizon.
well the next gen amd and nvidia were delayed well into 2012. OP youll notice a huge difference overclocking from your 2.66ghz chip
New GPUs aren't for at least ~4 months but yeah, gtx 580 is awful value for the money. I recommended getting a gigabyte soc gtx 570 or msi pe/oc gtx 570 You really need to OC the CPU, 2.6ghz to 3.6ghz~4ghz is like day and night in most games. easily +15~ fps
So you are recommending moving from a hd 5870 to a gtx 570 because it's good value for money? ...really? lol.
Thanks. I guess I'll get a cooler and give the overclocking a try! As well as a cheaper card since the new cards are around the corner. Once again thanks everyone .
^^^wouldnt recommend going from a 3gb card to 1280mb 570. not a wise decision. OP evga has a 570 with double the vram if you wanna go that route http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130687 is it available in your country?
OP will only see a 10% performance difference in some games going to from a 5870 to a gtx 570, not worth it. Either get a gtx 580 3GB or don't bother with the graphics card, unless you want more vram in which case there's 1.5GB and 2GB models that will serve you better.
hows about another cheap used 5870 for xfire then until the new cards are released then sell the 5870`s for a new gpu?
So what if I get the following two: http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.aspx?sku=635716 --- Graphic card http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.aspx?sku=494649 --- For the CPU cooler. Would I be able to overclock my 920 to 3,6++ ghz that way?
BZ your right forgot he had a 5870, was going by the 285 in the pro, a 570 is not a good upgrade from that OP
So the conclusion is to basically purchase that cooler which I linked, overclock my CPU and wait for new hardware?
If you're going to pay that much for the graphics card then you might aswell get this: For higher performance: http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.aspx?sku=634239 Same performance, good memory size and a lot cheaper: http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.aspx?sku=619520