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Qatlan

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Hi,

Currently, my system consists of the following componenents:

MOBO: ASRock Z77 Extreme6 MB

CPU: INTEL CPU CORE i5 2500K

HDD: SanDisk 240GB Extreme Solid State Drive SSD SDSSDX-240G-Q25

PSU: Thermaltake ToughPower XT 775W - 80 Plus

MEM: Corsair 16GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Unbuffered

GPU: Crossfired ASUS Radeon HD7970 DirectCU II 3GB

OS: Windows 7 64 bit

What components are holding my system back - what needs upgrading?

Thanks!
 
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DonQuixoteMC

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I'd say the only spot that might cause a bottleneck would be your CPU not feeding your GPUs fast enough. Play the most demanding game on your hardware, and check the loads of your processor and graphics cards. If the load percentage is very high for the processor and low for the GPU, you most likely have a bottleneck caused by the CPU. Alternately if the GPU load is high the CPU load is low, then you have a bottleneck caused by the GPU (unlikely in this scenario).

Why do you ask about bottlenecking? Are you not getting the frames/performance you expected? I mean, you have an SSD, fast RAM, if the CPU isn't causing a bottleneck, then that may not be your problem.

I hope that helps! Let me know what you find.

DonQuixoteMC
 
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Tom Tancredi

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Personally I am not sue what 'weakness' your speaking of that is a very fine system and depends what your applying it against. If your seeking tri-1900x1080 24" screens running BF4 64man multiplayer at Ultra settings 8AA 8AF at no less then 60FPS then yes this system will not achieve such a goal. You would need to go (for that level) to R9s or Nvidia 7xx and i7 core.

So again, what is your 'demands' on what programs/games, and expectations it isn't meeting. Otherwise personally I see your perfectly fine for the next 5 years. IMHO, the only other change is I wouldn't rely on ONLY a SSD, I would have a 1TB+ as my storage and games program installation drive; then absolutely make sure virtual memory was turned OFF in Windows, Log/Temp files were remapped to Drive 'D' would be best to extend and secure the longevity of the SSD.
 
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Tom Tancredi

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Well yes you will hit a bottleneck, but not with these cards. If these were R7, R9 or NVidia 7xx series, hell yes those cards need a i7 core or else your bottlenecking. But again, it all depends what settings / performance your expecting / wanting as well as what apps your chucking at this.
 
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jeremyp79

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The corsair in your last post is probably overkill. The antec HCG series is great, and generally pretty affordable. Other brands to look for are xfx(made by seasonic), seasonic, or corsair(anything but the cx series) The psu in your last post seems to be a great one, but you could get one that would work fine with your system for probably a quarter of the price.
 
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