Hi folks, long time since i have been here I want to buy an EVGA GTX 670 Superclocked and i do have a simple question. Will the rest of my system be a bottleneck for this Graphics Card? does it make a big difference if i buy the GTX660 TI instead? greetz Denmat
i was just wondering if PCI Express 2 might be too slow for this Card it's just because i want to get the max. performance out of it as ever hehehe
Between PCIe 2.0 x16 and 3.0 x16, there is a <1% difference when using the fastest single GPU on the market. Techpowerup PCIe 3.0 becomes more important with multiple video cards because it limits the available bandwidth per card and increases the overall load on the PCIe controller. EDIT: 3000 posts!!!!!!!!! :3eyes:
PCIe 1.1 x16 provides enough bandwidth for one gtx670 card. You are fine there and rest of your system is same. In test for 2 way SLI GTX 670/680 they found out that there is no difference in PCIe (2.0 x8 x8) mode vs (2.0 x16 x16) or even PCIe (3.0 x16 x16) mode. PCIe 3.0 is total overkill unless you need to transfer huge data blocks between GPU and system memory/CPU. That is not how games works. Maybe few Cuda/OpenCL/Compute applications may find use for it. But even then it would be optimized to keep data in Graphics memory instead of system ram. Difference would be in case calculations would have to be made on data blocks which would not fit in at all. For that we have 4/6GB cards, don't we?
Yeah, the 1333Mhz RAM is probably more of a bottleneck, although much faster speeds (like my 2400Mhz RAM at 2456Mhz) won't benefit the Sandy Bridge's as much as it benefits the Ivy Bridge. Upgrading the RAM wouldn't really be worth it as it would only give you very minimal benefit.
I'd say sandy benefits from 2133, however OP you need faster ram, get at least 1600, 1333 ain't for gaming.
No your system wont be enough! throw it away lol j/k I say its fine maybe if u have a small reproductive system then it will bottleneck ahahaa!
lol, and I've still got DDR2-800 ram.... I've got 999fps with everything except cpu heavy games where there's lots of people such as GW2 WvWs, BF3 64 player server and so on, because my cpu is obviously a bottleneck. ironic.
One guy with uber rig that can do bf3 @ 600fps /minimum framerate is 30 Other guy with uber rig that can do bf3 @ 120fps /minimum framerate is 60 which one do you choose? I'm the latter.
I want to be the one with 60 FPS minimum and 120 FPS Max Will i feel a big benefit from upgrading from an 560 TI to a 670? Will it be powerful enough for one or two years of Gaming? Maybe i could just lower timings a little and OC RAM to 1600, it's HyperX CL9 also yesterday my OCZ Vector 256GB arrived to also give my system a little boost since my rig has last been updated january 2012 it's time for a change i guess i am really not planning on SLI since my wife would rip off my head if i'd tell her i wanna pay 800 bucks for two 670's so all i want is boosting my performance to a max that the 670 could give my system. i am just questioning myself atm if i will have fun with my 670 in a year or if i just wait for 7 series of NV? i mean, will it be like: wow the 670 was totally worth buying it? Greetz Denmat
sorry for double posting.....i clocked my RAM to 1600Mhz CL9 Prime95 ran for an hour stable now seems like this wont bottleneck me anymore right? Internal Controller of CoreI5 still runs at 1333? or am i wrong? should i open a new topic for this? Greetz Denmat
1600,1866,2133 its all roughly the same. not noticeble unless you are benchmarking. you can game at 1333 but fps will be slightly lower. 1600 is good
Okay so i won't benefit much from any higher RAM speeds... and my sys will fire up the 670 to it's maximum right? just don't wanna make any mistakes when i am buying an evga GTX 670 for 350€ Greets Denmat