GFX for i5 760

[DoneADougalOnSofa]

Evening all.
A quick question on behalf of a colleague:

If he were to lob a 280X or even a 290 into his system to replace his old Nvidia 560 (I think that's what he said!), would there be any bottlenecking?
I'm trying to convince him to OC but he seems a little frightened of borking something, despite my best efforts, so I guess the CPU will run at stock...

My thoughts are he should be OK with a 280/280X but a 290 would perhaps be pushing it a little without an OC.

All ideas welcome!

Churrs, Jonno McDougalmeister

 

[pastymuncher]

I guess at stock there will be some bottlenecking but he really needs to get it clocked. Most 760's will hit at least 4Ghz with a simple 20x200 bclk and a bit of voltage increase. My old one did 3.6Ghz on stock volts, 4Ghz on 1.2875v and 4.2Ghz on 1.375v in a Asus P7P55D-E Pro. I still have all my old settings if they are of any use.

 

[wazza300]

280x would be ok

a 290 is extreme for that cpu

 

[DoneADougalOnSofa]

Ah, wazza and Mr Pasty, ever reliable as always!

That's what I thought too.
Cheers guys!

 

[the1gooner]

a 290 is extreme for that cpu

No it isn't if it's overclocked!

I ran my 290X with an i5 760 with no problems at all and have benchmark results to show that the difference between it and my new i7 4770K wasn't that much.

An R9 290 would be perfect for it.

 

[DoneADougalOnSofa]

The plot thickens...

A little more info to add: he has a 1440p monitor.

All depends whether I can persuade him to let me OC it for him... (I've mailed him the link to this thread, so, come on Tom, how's about it?! If I break it I'll GIVE you my 2500K rig!)

 

[the1gooner]

The plot thickens...

A little more info to add: he has a 1440p monitor.

All depends whether I can persuade him to let me OC it for him... (I've mailed him the link to this thread, so, come on Tom, how's about it?! If I break it I'll GIVE you my 2500K rig!)

It seriously is worth overclocking it. As long as there is a decent cooler used then it will do 3.6Ghz easily at reasonable volts.

With my 290X my old i5 760 at 3.5Ghz was enough to ensure that the 290X was the bottleneck is most things not the processor, and that was at 1080P.

Definitely overclock you will be surprised how much performance is in those chips when you do.

 

[DoneADougalOnSofa]

Exactly.
I've told him that it's actually very difficult to kill a CPU by OCing. It's free performance, and as long as you take care, no harm will be done.
I'll get there eventually!

 

[wazza300]

depends what res you game at for 1920x1080 a 280x is all you need tbh

if money is no object buy the 290 by all means

 

[Doogles]

If he doesn't overclock it is very obsolete if he overclocks it then it is borderline obsolete so overclock to get another year out of it

 

[the1gooner]

If he doesn't overclock it is very obsolete if he overclocks it then it is borderline obsolete so overclock to get another year out of it

It's far from obsolete when you know about the performance that those chips still give.

When overclocked it will give performance with a gpu like an R9 290 that wouldn't be much different from the 3570K your currently running.

This is based on running a single gpu of course.

Very far from obsolete.

 

[Resa69]

It's far from obsolete when you know about the performance that those chips still give.

When overclocked it will give performance with a gpu like an R9 290 that wouldn't be much different from the 3570K your currently running.

This is based on running a single gpu of course.

Very far from obsolete.

Agreed. It's still very potent but games like battlefield 4 will put it down on its knees however that's what mantle is for

 

[geeko]

Tom, how's about it?! If I break it I'll GIVE you my 2500K rig!

You can't lose here - if it works you get a faster pc, if it breaks you get a faster pc

 

[Doogles]

Agreed. It's still very potent but games like battlefield 4 will put it down on its knees however that's what mantle is for

Planetside 2 would also kill it, it is a good chip for games that are GPU heavy but not to CPU heavy. My i5 3570k was holding me back slightly in BF4 before my overclock but now it is much better. For some reason I dislike Mantle

 

[Marine-RX179]

The plot thickens...

A little more info to add: he has a 1440p monitor.

All depends whether I can persuade him to let me OC it for him... (I've mailed him the link to this thread, so, come on Tom, how's about it?! If I break it I'll GIVE you my 2500K rig!)

The i5 760 at 2.80GHz can overclock to around 4.00-4.20GHz, provided that the motherboard and CPU cooling is up to it...they's bloody nearly 50% increase in performance for barely nothing!!

As it is, a stock clock i5 760 would stuggle with the more recent games, particularly for the more CPU intensive ones. I actually was in a similar position, and went over to a friend's place a few years back to overclock his i5 760 to 3.80GHz to improve his frame rate for playing on BFBC2 online!