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RX480 with i7-920

Kurgen

Kurgen

Kurgen

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I'm trying to hold onto my i7-920 for as long as possible. would my CPU still be able to handle an RX480 at 1080p or even 1440 without bottlenecking. I would be thinking of pairing it with a budget 27" freesync screen

The i7 is currently clocked at 3.5 with 10gb ram in dual channel

Current GPU is GTX660 not 970 as sig, I have had some swapping around of kit due to living room PC with HTC VIVE
 
@ 3.5ghz i would say there will be a slight bottleneck yes, you should be able get 4.2ghz out of it, what cooler do you have ?
 
Well at higher resolutions it becomes slightly less CPU bound. So it takes what roughly 5-7% less utilisation off the CPU at 1440. So if at all possible try OC tht CPU tad bit more. But 480 looks like it will be fine with ur cpu
 
Yea certainly! There will be at bottleneck but only a small one, not so much it cripples performance you dont notice the extra horsepwer.
Obviously a skylake i5 will give you slightly more performance and better minimums but nothing by a great margin.
 
I've still got a 920 at 4ghz. Had a 1500mhz 980ti paired with it and it was totally fine at 1080p. Ran everything maxed with minimums well above 60. I prefer high frame rates too and lock everything to 85hz.
 
mine wont take a hexcore x5650 ive been down that route. it simply wont overclock at all. its an issue with the mobo board revision. The highest I have had is 3.85ghz but I dropped it back down. PC wont boot at 4ghz. would new ram make more chance of hitting 4ghz. I'm using an antec AIO with 240mm RAD
 
i reckon you would be fine, even if you do get a bit of bottleknecking you can always carry the gpu over to your next mainboard/cpu etc
 
You have a gem of a CPU. The i5-750 and i7-920 are still very good chips. I still have an i5-750 kicking about, although not in my current build. Easily reached a stable 4.2GHz. Its about 6 1/2 years old now.
 
I am currently running a I7 950 at 3.4ghz and use a 390 without any issues at 1080P

can get my cpu up to 4.2ghz on air but 3.4 seems fine for me.
 
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