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gtx 480 on nvidia 680isli

dannywaugh1

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gtx 480 on nvidia 680isli

680isli is my motherboard im thinking of either upgradeing cpu memory and gfx card or build new system with the gtx 480

will the gtx work on this motherboard??

what do you guys think?
 
It will work fine, however I would be concerned that the powerful and expensive graphics card is going to be bottlenecked by the CPU. What do you have and what do you plan to upgrade to?
 
Iirc, the 45nm s775 quads dont work on the 680i sli boards. Only on the 780i and 790i's which are ddr3.
 
TBH, with a 3.15GHz Q6600 you will still be graphics limited in most games. Only the odd few (like GTA 4 or battlefield bad company 2) will be limited by the performance of your CPU.

What are the specs of your memory and PSU, out of interest?
 
On another negative note, you likely wont get much more out of the q6600 on the 680i board. They were terrible quad clocking boards, best i could manage was 3.0ghz on the supposed quad friendy evga 680i A1 revision, same cpu later hit an easy 3.8ghz in a p45 board.
 
now do 680i chipsets use gen 1 or gen 2 pcie lanes?

if its gen 1, then that may be a slight bottleneck as well (gen1 = half the bandwidth of equal speed gen 2 if that makes any sense)
 
I'm still convinced that the Q6600 at 3.15GHz will be the limiting factor for GTX480SLI. If it was I choosing to buy, I'd just go for GTX460 SLI or GTX470SLI and save myself £340/£260...consider it is very likely that GTX480SLI won't be much faster than GTX460SLI/GTX470SLI on a Q6600 at 3.15GHz.
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
I'm still convinced that the Q6600 at 3.15GHz will be the limiting factor for GTX480SLI. If it was I choosing to buy, I'd just go for GTX460 SLI or GTX470SLI and save myself £340/£260...consider it is very likely that GTX480SLI won't be much faster than GTX460SLI/GTX470SLI on a Q6600 at 3.15GHz.
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I agree, in many instances a GTX 480 SLI setup would be limited by a 3.15GHz Q6600. But I don't think the OP is wanting an SLI setup, just a single card.
 
cmndr_andi said:
I agree, in many instances a GTX 480 SLI setup would be limited by a 3.15GHz Q6600. But I don't think the OP is wanting an SLI setup, just a single card.
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Ah crap you're right. For some reason I was reading as if the OP was asking about GTX480SLI...must had confused myself with the enquiry about the SLI board :p

So yea...a single GTX480 is perfectly fine for the Q6600 at 3.15GHz; just don't bother consider going GTX480SLI in the future though.
 
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