Bottleneck ?

Slammer · 6 Apr 2011 at 01:29

Hey everyone

Does anyone know what graphics cards wont bottleneck the Intel Core i7 950, I did have in mind running two 6870's but im just not to sure..
Any help would be great, thanks

--Slammer--

TerryH · 6 Apr 2011 at 02:22

Edit. OP has confused me slightly.. I wasn't aware a Graphics card can bottleneck a CPU in the true sense.. I do understand what he means though.

Slammer · 6 Apr 2011 at 02:33

Sorry my bad, didn't word it very well haha

Antilo · 6 Apr 2011 at 02:40

An overclocked i7 shouldnt be a bottleneck for anything out now imo, apart from 2 5970s perhaps...

Slammer · 6 Apr 2011 at 02:41

Ahh awesome, thanks

Antilo · 6 Apr 2011 at 03:02

Nay problemo..

(It is overclocked right?

Shame to keep an i7 at stock)

Slammer · 6 Apr 2011 at 03:06

Nope, I haven't ordered anything yet haha, just getting some ideas and making sure everything is good

bhavv · 6 Apr 2011 at 04:19

An I7 CPU at 3.8-4.2 Ghz shouldnt bottleneck anything with 2 GPUs.

If you havnt ordered anything yet then a 2500k is cheaper and better than an I7 build.

Antilo · 6 Apr 2011 at 04:36

bhavv said:
An I7 CPU at 3.8-4.2 Ghz shouldnt bottleneck anything with 2 GPUs.

If you havnt ordered anything yet then a 2500k is cheaper and better than an I7 build.

This.

Very very little point in ordering 1366 now, unless you really need tri-channel memory.

New sandybridge stuff is quicker and clocks better

bhavv · 6 Apr 2011 at 04:40

For 99% of users, triple channel and hyperthreading are both completely useless.

The only reason I got X58 is because it came out before P55 did. A lot of people with I7 CPUs actually disable hyper threading so that they can clock them higher for games. Higher clock speed is all that matters for games, and 4 cores will be plenty for a long time.

Also 2500k = 32nm, cooler and higher overclocks than a 25nm I7.