Can my system handle a Nvidia 1080?

[Jonnodude]

So, as the title asks, can my system handle the new Nvidia GTX 1080, or will it be bottlenecked by the older specs?

I'm also considering waiting for the Nvidia GTX 1080ti later this year / early next year, and I'm kinda hoping my system will be up for that too (but obviously we don't know anything about it yet).

Anyone got any ideas?

My Specs:

Case: NZXT Phantom Enthusiast USB 3.0 Full Tower Case - Black

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor

PSU: OCZ ZX Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply

Motherboard: Asus Z87 SABERTOOTH Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX

RAM: TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 16GB DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz

Primary Drive: Samsung 512GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic

Secondary Drive: Western Digital VelociRaptor 1TB 10000RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache

 

[Jonnodude]

Yes it can

Thanks, that's re-assuring.

So no bottle-necking from the other older components?

 

[Jonnodude]

Easily, just overclock your gpu and youll be fine. The only way you'll bottleneck is if you leave the cpu at stock frequency. Put the multiplier to 40 in the bios and turn off the turbo mode.

Thanks! My CPU already came over-clocked from this site, and I haven't changed anything, so hopefully that will be enough!

If not, I'll have to look up some over-clocking guides.

Yes, easily.

The fastest CPU's available now are the i7-6000 range, and they're literally only 4% faster at the same frequency.

Oh wow, I didn't know the more recent cpu's are not that much more of an increase.

 

[Jonnodude]

Won't be big enough bottlenecks to be worth bothering about - I did have a play with my 4820K @ 4.4GHz with a 980ti and saw some minor bottlenecks in some cases - but mostly in situations where the framerate was already waaay over anything needed.

Sweet, that sounds good.



Ok, time for a noobish question.

How can I tell if my processor is still over-clocked, how can I test that the over-clock is still in effect and how can I tell how much it is over-clocked by?

I remember there was a CPU stressing application you could run with CPU-Z to test, but I forget what it was and how it worked.

 

[Jonnodude]

Recent versions of CPU-Z include a benchmark and stress test, in the Bench tab. So start the stress test, then click back to the 1st tab to see frequency etc.

Thanks!

I did the test, not sure I notice much difference?

I took one screenshot of the main page and the bench page after clicking bench, then one of each again while the stress was running.

I don't know what I'm reading tbh >.<

Can anyone tell me if this is OC'd?

Bench1

Bench2

Stress1

Stress2

 

[Jonnodude]

It shows the max multiplier/frequency is 43/4300MHz (non-overclocked is just 39/3900MHz). So the overclock is still in effect.

Phew, well that's fine then is that OC enough? One of the previous posts said it needed to be a multiplier of 40?

 

[Jonnodude]

Your overclock is 4.3ghz, so '43' the other poster recommended '40' or 4.0 ghz so in fact your faster. Stop worrying your system is more than enough for even the next gen gpus.

Thanks

This could well bottleneck your performance!

Funny... >.> xD

What gfx card do you currently have? If you already have a 980 I wouldn't be looking to upgrade.

Sorry I didnt reply sooner >.<

I have a Nvidia GTX 780 at the moment.

I usually upgrade after every 2 series of cards, so it seems logical to upgrade now.

I'm thinking about upgrading to the 1080, but I'm more considering upgrading to the 1080ti (when it gets announced).

I want a card that will support 1x 4k monitor (as the main gaming monitor) and 2x 1080p (for on the sides). This will probably be the 1080ti.

Don't we all

but unless you have money to burn, you have to consider the performance per £.

I've got quite a bit of money to burn luckily, it's a good time to upgrade for me

 

[Jonnodude]

Hmmm, I've just noticed the 1080 from Nvidia only has 1x DVI-I/D port and the monitors I have run at 1080p - 144hz, but they only have a DVI port for that, no DisplayPort.

Does anyone know if it's likely if custom 3rd party cards will come with more DVI ports?

Or does anyone know how I can soup up a HDMI port to run 144hz monitors?