Bottlenecking GTX 570 SLI?

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Hi all,

Quick question and hopefully a quick answer.
I was talking to a friend in work and he put the query in my head.
Will my i5 750 @ 3.8GHz bottleneck my GTX 570 SLI setup?

Since that same friend just recently got a Sandybridge setup I'm wondering if I'm just looking for an excuse to upgrade too.

So is my i5 750 holding me back?

By the way I play at 1920*1200.

 

[setter]

Id say no, if you were at stock then yes, it would be a problem. Ive noticed it on my own sli setup when ive had the cpu at stock.

 

[Rroff]

I wouldn't think so, I had my Q9550 at 3.825gig for a long time and never felt like the CPU was a bottleneck and the i5 750 will be atleast as fast clock for clock.

 

[setter]

The best way is to test whatever games you play, run them on stock then on your overclocked settings to see the difference, in my case bfbc2 showed a good improvement, (pretty cpu dependent game).