Can I Buy GTX 1080 With my 3 Years old Computer?

Shlomi1515 · Jun 10, 2016

G1.Sniper 3 = http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4169#ov
8 GB X 2 = 16 GB RAM
core i7 - 3770k
power supply 850W

I ask this because...
When I first bought the computer, I had HD 4870 1GB, a month later bought HD 7970 3GB
The card didnt work, the screen was black gave the PC to the store and they upgraded the BIOS of the motherboard than it work... now itS been 3 years my motherboard using the latest BIOS (which still marks as BETA in Gigabyte website) how can I be sure it will run???

Many thanks to the helpers!!!

guanyu210379 · Jun 10, 2016

Yeah..no problem with your rig.
You should be able get it without issues.

MCID47 · Jun 10, 2016

Are you going to buy GTX 1080 by selling your PC part or just applying GTX 1080 on your PC ?

Shlomi1515 · Jun 10, 2016

just apply GTX 1080 + 4k Monitor

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Got 2000$ Bonus this year

MCID47 · Jun 10, 2016

Well, no problem of course (a thousand of performance multiplier than HD 400 on your i7 ;D). I don't think so if your CPU will bottleneck 1080 since i never saw any benchmark that indicates bottlenecking with 4 Core/8 Threads Processor. Then i can say go on with that, its absolutely fine.

if you mentioned you've updated the bios to the latest bios, even its on beta stage, its still ok btw. If you had a problem then just rollback the bios to older or the stock bios (if you have/found it).

maxalge · Jun 10, 2016

Shlomi1515 :

be aware that while the gtx 1080 is a perfect 1440p gpu, it is not a great 4k gpu

Shlomi1515 · Jun 10, 2016

can i run 2x1080 using 850W?
My old motherboard can run 2xPCI Express at x16

MCID47 · Jun 10, 2016

Based on official release note, GTX 1080 Ti need 500W PSU in single card, basically around 170 watts for idle and goes around 270 watts under full load. So i can say 850 Watt of Pure and certified (at least 70% power efficiencies or Bronze PSU) will be good as well. As long as you don't put all drives on all sata port cause sometimes hard drives need powers too.

13thmonkey · Jun 10, 2016

MCID47 :

be aware that bronze etc. is ONLY an efficiency standard, zero to do with quality.

Precisely what is your PSU.

Shlomi1515 · Jun 10, 2016

oh damn i have like 14 disks in my computer all sata are busy
SSDs in raid 0 and hard disk for storage

13thmonkey · Jun 10, 2016

Shlomi1515 :

the comment about HDD's is poor at best, 14 drives, maybe 5W per drive, 70W in total not an insignificant amount, but not a change your PSU level of power.

What is you PSU.

Shlomi1515 · Jun 10, 2016

Crosair HX Series HX850 Power Supply — 850 Watt 80 PLUS® Gold Certified Modular PSU

13thmonkey · Jun 10, 2016

I'm having to assume that HX and HXi, are similar enough, that's a tier 1 PSU, you'll be fine. SLI will be close given the HDD's. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html?_ga=1.59566821.912160372.1444296661

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