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Can my system handle a Nvidia 1080?

Jonnodude

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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
 
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.
 
Yes, easily.

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

AllBodies said:
Yes, easily.

The fastest CPU's available now are the i7-6000 range, and they're literally only 4% faster at the same frequency.
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Oh wow, I didn't know the more recent cpu's are not that much more of an increase.
 
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.
 
Rroff said:
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.
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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.
 
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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.
 
Danny75 said:
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.
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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
Bench1.png


Bench2
Bench2.png


Stress1
Stress1.png


Stress2
Stress2.png
 
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sorry to hijack thread.

Just curious to why turn off the Turbo mode?

I run an i5 2500k OC to 4.5ghz.

If idling, it runs at 16 x100mzh bus.

Then when working at max goes to 45 x 100.

IIRC the turbo is what makes it go down when not required?

Is there any benefit to having turbo off?
 
Midnight Tboy said:
sorry to hijack thread.

Just curious to why turn off the Turbo mode?

I run an i5 2500k OC to 4.5ghz.

If idling, it runs at 16 x100mzh bus.

Then when working at max goes to 45 x 100.

IIRC the turbo is what makes it go down when not required?

Is there any benefit to having turbo off?
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That's speedstep. It underclocks when idle. Turbo overclocks when performance is needed. In this case we always want the turbo speed so we turn it off and force the multi to the turbo value (or higher)
 
I'm more worried about potential bottlenecks running VR with my i5 2500k and a 1080 card....either to do PCI speed or something. Been a while so not fully on top of things - but read the 1080 is 256bit bus speed - are the old sandybridge motherboards fully capable when comes to all that? :) It's bad enough (well mostly annoying) that my usb 3.0 chipset is marked as incompatible with the Oc Rift CV (I had the DK2 on it with no issues)
 
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.
 
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