Hello everyone, Current specs: Win7 Home Premium x64 Intel Q9400 quad core running at 3.4 GHz OCZ Reaper ddr2 memory running at 1100 Currently running a GTX 460 SE from MSI with no issues, but I recall one time I bought an 8800 GTX and found that my old system was not enough to make it shine. Don't want a repeat on that scenario. So what say everyone? GTX580 too much for my system, or would it still run well anyway?
With your OC it should be ok, won't make it shine entirely, but it'll still be a solid upgrade in gpu demanding games.
I got a 480 in my qx9650(4ghz) rig and it is bottlenecked quite a bit. you will certainly not get the most out of that 580 but it will run ok I guess
I know your CPU is not in the test here... but some equivalent CPU's are.. and the HD7970 has similar or more potential for a bottleneck. It seems that once you're running a resolution of 1080p and up, the CPU makes little difference to tthe framerate. http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-7970-cpu-scaling-performance-review/ I think you'll be OK with a 580..
Been running a 580oc in my bros q6600@3.2 pc and all is well. Probably holding it back a little like others have mentioned but that does not mean you will notice while gaming
1600 and above, those graphs seem to represent a gpu bottleneck, if some cpu limited games were posted, the fps would be all over the place according to the cpu. OP if you play a lot of gpu limited games you will be fine at higher resolutions, if you play a lot of cpu limited games your system will get much lower fps than an i5, i7 chip.
depends on the game you are playing. Most games that are optimized for the PC will run fine and will not experience much bottleneck. Console ports however are totally different.. I have a gtx 580 and a core i5 2500k@4.0 and gtx580 is being bottlenecked big time(Skyrim for example)
with my 560ti and q6600 i only see bottlenecks in games with tons of npc's randomly placed throughout a game area such as assassins creed revelations (50-60% gpu usage) and same with skyrim, in battlefield 3 i get a solid 99% usage even on 64man maps i play at 1680x1050 resolution
Well, I had just bought a 27inch monitor, so I'm running everything at 1920x1080, regardless of the performance.