System bottleneck check - Graphics card upgrade

tsuketoe

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Nov 15, 2013
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Hi all,

I'm looking into to the possibility to upgrade and would like to know whether my current system would be sufficient if I would upgrade the graphics card by itself. The reason for upgrading would be X Rebirth, it seems the 5870 1GB I have installed now does not cut it anymore.

Specs are below, thanks!

(I just noticed Speccy by Piriform reads out my memory at 668Mhz, that should be 1600Mhz as far as I remember)

Operating System
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 860 @ 2.80GHz 28 °C
Lynnfield 45nm Technology
RAM
8,00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 668MHz (7-7-7-24)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. P7P55D-E PRO (LGA1156) 29 °C
Graphics
DELL U2711 (2560x1440@60Hz)
1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 5800 Series (ASUStek Computer Inc) 40 °C
Storage
1863GB Western Digital WDC WD20 02FAEX-007BA0 SCSI Disk Device (SATA) 31 °C
111GB OCZ-VERT EX3 SCSI Disk Device (SSD)
1863GB Intel Raid 5 Volume SCSI Disk Device (RAID)
Optical Drives
ATAPI iHES208 2 SCSI CdRom Device
ELBY CLONEDRIVE SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
AMD High Definition Audio Device